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On the recordFebruary 6, 2024
Reasonable Republicans and even The Wall Street Journal editorial board have written that this impeachment does not qualify as high crimes and misdemeanors. The board wrote: ``Grandstanding is easier than governing, and Republicans have to decide whether to accomplish anything other than impeaching Democrats. . . . [I]mpeaching him accomplishes nothing beyond political symbolism.'' That is right. It is political symbolism. It is political theater. Our immigration system is broken. We have been saying it, and we have been offering up a bipartisan solution that Republicans have refused to take up. They just blew up a bipartisan deal in the Senate. They refuse to provide Secretary Mayorkas the resources and legal changes he needs to reform the immigration system so our border is secure, our policies are humane, and our country is richer, thanks to the immeasurable contributions of our immigrant workforce. Instead, we have a clown show directed by Marjorie Taylor Greene. If we vote for this sham impeachment in the House, she will have the power to march over to the Senate and stop all their work. She will stop work on a budget that we need to keep our government open. She will stop work on the farm bill, which my rural communities need. She will stop work on policies to lower costs and expand the middle class. Extreme Republicans have answered The Wall Street Journal's question: Do they want to govern? They don't want to govern.…
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Teresa Leger Fernandez
Democratic · New Mexico

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