Jerry Nadler

In honoring and defending the Constitution, we defend and honor ourselves.

The President misused his Presidential power to gain a personal benefit, to the detriment of the interests of the United States.

Abuse of power and obstruction of Congress together, that is what these articles are about.

The President has abused his power. The President has tried to obstruct Congress in trying to create his own way of us doing our impeachment inquiry.

First, has the President committed impeachable offenses? Second, do those offenses rise to the gravity that is worth putting the country through the drama of impeachment? And number three, ...

If you believe that the President is guilty of what the articles charge him with, you should vote for the Articles of Impeachment. If you believe he is not, you should vote against the Articles of Impeachment.

The President put his own interest in front of the interest of the country, that he sought to use the power of the presidency to withhold military aid from an ally and to extort that ally into making an announcement of a bogus…

Coercing a foreign power to interfere in a presidential election is not our core value.

There is no way in hell I will vote to remove obstruction of Congress from these articles.

That is why we must impeach the President on this article.

If you don't want a dictatorship, you have to allow Congress to exercise the power of impeachment.

That is a large step toward dictatorship.

It is a decision to completely try to frustrate that inquiry by denying all participation.

The President has undermined our Constitution by obstructing Congress' impeachment power without a legal basis.

The only remedy for a President who says the House does not have the power to have an impeachment inquiry is to say that is an obstruction of Congress.

He has simply asserted that he doesn't recognize the constitutional power of Congress to impeach.

That shows right there a usurpation by the President of Congressional power.

The President abused his power. And to me, and at least the members on this side of the dais, that matters.

Our oath to the Constitution requires us to take this drastic, solemn, and regrettable step, but it is necessary, because if we don't protect Americans' precious right to vote, it is clear that the other side won't.

If this behavior persists, the balanced, carefully balanced sharing of power between the three branches of government is gone forever.

This isn't something that needs to be adjudicated by the third branch, the judicial branch, because there is no--there is no privilege being asserted here.

We decide how to proceed, not the White House.

That takes power away from the American people, and that would end our country as we know it--a democracy, a shining city on the hill, a beacon of hope to people around the world who followed our revolution by changing their governments to…

The President of the United States has violated the law. He has abused his power. He is undermining our freedoms, our democracy. We must act. That is why we are here today. No one, no President in this country is above the law.

The Supreme Court has emphasized that the fact-finding investigative power of Congress is essential to, integral to, and built into our legislative power.