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On the recordJanuary 9, 2020
Mr. President, it has now been more than 3 weeks since the House passed two Articles of Impeachment against the President of the United States. It was a big day for them at the time and one they have been dreaming of and speaking of since the President was inaugurated nearly 3 years ago. For as long as the House Democrats have been wanting to impeach the President, they spent only a short time on the impeachment inquiry itself. As a matter of fact, they rushed headlong into the impeachment process, and now they are trying to make up for the mistakes that Chairman Schiff and Speaker Pelosi made when proceeding in the first place. For example, now they want to relitigate things like executive privilege and whether the testimony of other witnesses should be included in the Senate impeachment trial. In other words, the House wants to tell the Senate how to conduct the trial. Well, the House had its job to do--and, frankly, I think mishandled it--but now they have no say in the way the Senate conducts the impeachment trial, when and if Speaker Pelosi decides to send the articles over here. Twelve weeks was all it took for House Democrats to come up with what they believed was enough evidence to warrant a vote on Articles of Impeachment. I think they are experiencing some buyers' remorse.…
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

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