Jodey Arrington: “I thank our fearless leader and the good gentleman from Tennessee for yielding time. Just a comment about this not being…”

“I thank our fearless leader and the good gentleman from Tennessee for yielding time. Just a comment about this not being an invasion: No honest or objective American, from sea to shining sea, could characterize what is happening at our southern border in any way other than an invasion, and it is destroying our country. It is because of willful neglect. It is because of dereliction of duty. It is because of the faithlessness to this Constitution and its first job: to provide a common defense. I thank Chairman Green for restoring the dignity and integrity of the impeachment process. I think it is important that we are careful and that we make the fullness of due process an important feature, restoring what has happened over the last two impeachments. This is a yearlong process, and I appreciate his fidelity to the Constitution and the integrity of this institution. The bottom line, Mr. Speaker: I believe that the Impeachment Clause in the Constitution, according to our Founders, was to give remedy for this very circumstance, to remove someone who had violated their public trust in a way that resulted in serious and systemic injury to society. I thank Chairman Green, again, for his leadership. I stand with him. This is the right and responsible thing to do in faithfulness to the Constitution, in the protection of the American people, and in defense of the sovereignty of the greatest Nation in human history.”