On the recordOctober 17, 2019
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to shed light on House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, a scheme that has been devised in the dark. From day one of this Congress, my colleagues have sought to use their new majority to undermine President Trump every step of the way. The majority has chosen to break precedent and deprive Republicans of the ability to do our job. Today, I went down to the SCIF to read the classified Volker testimony for myself, and, sadly, I was turned away. It is remarkable that elected officials have been blocked from reading material, parts of which have already been leaked to the press in selective and incomplete pieces. Simply, this is wrong. The House of Representatives has been reduced to obsessing over a perpetual Ground Hog Day cycle of relitigating the 2016 election. For the sake of our Nation, it is time to remove what the obstacles we face are and return to our constitutional duty of being legislators. ____________________
