I was going to ask the gentleman the same thing. I have no further speakers. I am prepared to close.

I am deeply troubled by the President's 11th-hour decision to make a blanket invocation of executive privilege.

We will go to court if we have to get it.

There is no cover-up privilege in our law. Mr. Chairman, the Constitution law and precedent say that Congress has a right to this information.

This is the White House claiming that the president is a king. This is the White House saying that the Justice Department says they can't hold the president accountable, you can't indict a president, and now, they're saying neither can…

what they ultimately come down to is whether the President can shield himself from accountability to a co-equal branch of government.

For more than 200 years, Congress has exercised its power under Article I of the Constitution to conduct oversight of the executive branch.

We are now in a constitutional crisis.

This comes on the same day the Democratic House Committee leader claims we're in a constitutional crisis after his own committee voted on party lines to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for not releasing the full unredacted…

Chairman Nadler also sent a letter to former White House Counsel Don McGahn threatening to do the same for him if he doesn't appear before the committee.

It is clear that lots of disparate impact like that, like the law eliminating straight-ticket voting, like a million other things, are done for discriminatory reasons.

The distressing record of enforcement activity in Texas demands that reappear here in Houston to accept expert testimony on the current state of voting rights in America.