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On the recordSeptember 26, 2019
Mr. President, the past 2 weeks have provided a kind of microcosm of the Democrat Party since the 2016 election--a combination of unhinged partisanship and a radical shift to the far left. In the past 2 weeks, we have seen Democrats call for not one but two impeachments--Justice Kavanaugh's and the President's--and introduce another socialist-inspired, government-run approach to healthcare, this time on the issue of prescription drugs. First, there were the calls to impeach Justice Kavanaugh based on yet another vague rumor. It quickly became glaringly obvious that there was no substance to the rumor. The alleged victim apparently has zero memory of the alleged behavior, but that didn't give Democrats any pause. It was right on to the next rushed impeachment proposal. On Tuesday, the Speaker of the House announced that she was opening an impeachment inquiry into the President. Never mind that the President had declared he would make public the transcript of the phone call in question. Apparently, she couldn't take the time to wait. After all, as the leader pointed out on the floor this week, Democrats have been looking to impeach the President since the moment he was elected. For Democrats, impeachment is not something to be gravely considered as an answer to serious crimes; it is a political weapon they hope to use to fix the fact that they didn't get their way in the last Presidential election.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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