Chuck Edwards: “I would resist adding any more mandatory spending to our budget. I think every dollar should be challenged with every…”

I can acknowledge poor judgment, regret the discomfort that some of my actions may have caused, and apologize to those who were hurt by this episode, while still disputing a conclusion that the evidence simply does not support.

And conduct that is otherwise permissible does not automatically become misconduct, simply because enough individual moments are assembled together and viewed through the darkest possible ends.

The factual findings of this investigation do not justify branding me as though I did.

I respect the House vote. I do not accept the conclusion that it produced.