I move the committee grant House Resolution 755, impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors, a closed rule.

In fact, we have contemporaneous witnesses, like Ambassador Sondland and others, who said, no, it was clear that what was important to the President was getting this personal political favor.

I did want to ask unanimous consent, and I am not sure which letter Mr. Perlmutter introduced before, but we do have a letter now that has 500 legal scholars who signed on saying that there is grounds for impeachment in our current fact situation.

the only radical view I am embracing here is the idea that we the people should be governed by a constitution that divides powers between three coequal branches and establishes checks and balances on the President.

And over 700 historians who have signed a separate letter.

How can we say then that he should be beyond the reach of the law?

this weekend, Tom Ridge, the former Republican governor of my home State, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the first Homeland Secretary of the United States, Member of Congress, Vietnam vet said that he believed the President's conduct here was an abuse of power to ask a foreign leader for a political favor.

And when you retrace it, you will find that there were three kind of things on their mind: One was a President who tries to corrupt our elections; two was a President who makes deals with foreign powers in order to alter the course of our political destiny, in other words, taking choice away from we the people and giving it to foreign despots and spies.

He remains an ongoing threat to both.

So, you know, I think it takes us back to basics again, and the basics being, if it looks like a duck and it swims like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck.

I loved my job as a public interest lawyer, and I loved volunteering with kids, helping them to get a good start and helping them to understand why our government and our laws are what make our country that shining city on a hill, a beacon of freedom and opportunity to the entire world.