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On the recordDecember 18, 2019
We are not debating impeachment of an American President today. Your minds are already made up. The Democrat majority has had a verdict, impeachment, looking for a crime since the inauguration. The Washington Post ran the headline, ``The Campaign to Impeach President Trump Has Begun'' just 19 minutes after President Trump took the oath of office. The freshman Congresswoman from Michigan told a group of supporters, ``We are going to impeach the mother-blank'' shortly after she was sworn in. Even Speaker Pelosi admitted last week that the impeachment effort has been going on for 2\1/2\ years, long before any phone call between two world leaders. In fact, 71 percent of the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee supported an impeachment before the phone call. The impeachment sham is based on hearsay, conjecture, and opinion. And you know what, you can't even get a speeding ticket in this country based on hearsay, yet we are going to impeach an American President based on just that. Where are the crimes of treason, high crimes or misdemeanors committed here? Those are things that constitute impeachable offenses, not hatred or policy disagreements. If memory serves me right, Congress told the administration to withhold aid to Ukraine until they got their act together, addressed corruption, and straightened it out. That was in multiple NDAAs voted on by both parties in this Chamber.…
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Jeff Duncan
Republican · South Carolina

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