Jerry Nadler

Once again, I hear a lot of attacks on Democratic Members of Congress, but not one single word of substantive defense of the President's conduct. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Connolly).

I remind the gentleman that President Obama provided thousands of pages of information to congressional requests, and that Attorney General Holder and others testified, unlike now. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from…

I would remind the gentleman that the House has passed over 400 bills, 275 bipartisan bills: driving down costs of healthcare and prescription drugs, raising wages, rebuilding infrastructure, taking on corruption and self-dealing in…

The President was given the opportunity to come and testify before the Judiciary Committee, to send his counsel, to question witnesses. He declined to do so. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Kildee).

The President's conduct constituted the highest of high crimes against our country. An offense does not have to violate a criminal statute to be impeachable. That was confirmed in President Nixon's case and again in President Clinton's…

The gentlewoman is correct. President Trump's behavior is not new. He has a pattern of engaging in misconduct and then obstructing any investigation into his misconduct to cover up his actions and hide the truth from the American people…

One specific concern of the Framers was a President who would corrupt our elections and who would abuse the great powers of his office to ensure his own reelection. The impeachment inquiry is not an effort to overturn an election. It is a…

I remind the gentleman that, if President Trump is impeached and removed, the new President will be Mike Pence, not Hillary Clinton. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Mucarsel-Powell).

President Trump said no quid pro quo only after the White House learned of the whistleblower complaints and after the Washington Post had published an article about the President's pressure campaign on Ukraine. Madam Speaker, I yield 2…

Abuse of power was no vague or weak notion to the Framers. It had a very specific meaning: the use of official power to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring or injuring the national interest. President Trump has abused his…

I would remind the gentleman that, after recovering millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains, the Mueller investigation was actually a net plus for the taxpayers. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Neguse).

The evidence is clear that President Trump took advantage of Ukraine's vulnerability and abused the powers of his office to pressure Ukraine to help his reelection campaign. This is the highest of high crimes, and President Trump must be…

I am hearing a lot from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, except a defense of President Trump's conduct, which is indefensible. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutch).

The gentleman knows that impeachment was put into the Constitution as a defense of the Republic in between elections. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Jayapal).

The gentleman from Wisconsin knows full well the President asserted no privileges here. He simply ordered complete defiance of the impeachment inquiry. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms. Scanlon).

Russia's Putin labels Trump impeachment `domestic political infighting.'

This is tearing the country apart.

There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment supported by one of our major political parties and opposed by another. Such an impeachment will produce divisiveness and bitterness in politics for years to come and will…

We cannot wait 4 years to vote Mr. Trump out of office, so we must do everything we can to stop Trump and his extreme agenda now.

These articles charge that President Trump has engaged in systematic abuse of his powers, obstructed Congress, and realized the worst fears of the Framers.

We cannot and we will not allow the impeachment power itself to be destroyed.

The President's aggressive and unprecedented resistance to congressional subpoenas for witnesses and documents is blatantly and dangerously unconstitutional.

In the history of the Republic, no President other than this one has ever claimed and exercised the unilateral right and power to thwart and defeat a House Presidential impeachment inquiry.

This scheme to corrupt an American Presidential election subordinated the democratic sovereignty of the people to the private political ambitions of one man.

He abused the awesome powers of the Presidency by using his office to corruptly demand that a foreign government interfere in our American Presidential election.