Al Green: “Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for your kindness. He is defying the Federal courts. Once you do this, you become a de facto…”

“Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for your kindness. He is defying the Federal courts. Once you do this, you become a de facto dictator--you reduce the country to a de facto dictatorship--and for this you must be impeached. The Articles will go into many other aspects of this, but for these things you must be impeached These Articles of Impeachment I shall bring, I have said that I would and I will, but I want to give everybody notice right now--right now, take note of this--they will not be the only Articles of Impeachment because the President has done various things that merit impeachment, and at least I am going to build a record so that posterity will know how some of us stood during this time of crisis when the President was violating the Constitution. I will be bringing at least one additional occurrence where there will be Articles of Impeachment presented to this House, maybe more than one more, but I am not going to allow this Congress to escape having a record of what this President is doing. Yes, I am going to bring my Articles of Impeachment. I know that the President, once he hears the things that I have said, he will try to find some way to weasel out. I call that pickpocket politics, when you catch the pickpocket trying to lift something from your person, and then you decide, oh, well, I really wasn't taking that, I am sorry, just bumped into you. Well, the President always tries to retract.…”