Kevin Brady: “some Americans are not watching these proceedings. Instead in hushed courtrooms across this country families slashed…”

“some Americans are not watching these proceedings. Instead in hushed courtrooms across this country families slashed apart by violent crime and innocent people wrongly accused are staring intently at a witness stand, and they are praying. For many their best hope, perhaps their only hope, for justice depends upon that witness telling the truth, the full truth, under oath. Truth does matter, and if it is no longer the duty of the President to tell the truth under sworn oath, can we require it of any American? The answer is no which is why justice, hope and the Constitution demand that today we vote ``yes.'' After carefully studying all the facts, there is strong and sufficient evidence to warrant a trial in the United States Senate. I intend to vote ``yes'' on each of the four articles of impeachment of the President that were forwarded by the House Judiciary Committee. In making this decision, I upheld my constitutional responsibility to act as a fair and thoughtful juror. I weighed the evidence against the charges and cast my vote without regard to polls, party or conjecture about any future presidential race. I am sad for the Nation because none of this needed to occur. It is only the second time in our Nation's history that a vote to impeach the President of the United States has taken place on the floor of the House of Representatives.”