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On the recordJanuary 7, 2020
Madam President, before Congress adjourned for the holidays, our colleagues in the House of Representatives carried out their sole priority for 2019, which was to impeach President Trump. That was their No. 1 objective in 2019. While it is no secret that this is something they have been dreaming of since the day President Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2017, it certainly took our colleagues in the House on a roller coaster ride and the country as well. I liken it, really, not to a roller coaster ride, but to a three-ring circus. It did not reflect particularly well on their body or on the seriousness of the process. From March of last year, here is an important quote to remember. Speaker Pelosi cast a lot of doubt that an impeachment vote would even happen. This is from March 2019. She said: Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there's something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don't think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And he's just not worth it. That is what Speaker Pelosi said in March of 2019. As we have seen, it was only a matter of time before the radical Members of her caucus forced Speaker Pelosi's hand and sent the House down a partisan impeachment rabbit hole. That is where they ended up. House Democrats dove head first into--as something our majority leader has said here in the Senate--the most rushed, least fair, and least thorough impeachment inquiry in American history.…
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

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