Tim Kaine: “Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk for the House managers. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. The question from…”

“Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk for the House managers. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. The question from Senator Kaine to the House managers: =========================== NOTE =========================== On page S702, January 30, 2020, third column, the following appears: The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. The question from Senator KAINE for the House Managers: The online Record has been corrected to read: The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. The question from Senator KAINE to the House Managers: ========================= END NOTE ========================= If the Senate acquits the President on article II, after he violated both the Impoundment Control Act and the Whistleblower Act to hide the Ukraine scheme from Congress, what is to stop President Trump from complete refusal to cooperate with Congress on any matter? Mr. Manager SCHIFF. Mr. Chief Justice, in short, the consequence is there is no constraint on this President or any other. This gets to a point--you have heard counsel for the President repeat over and over: Can you be impeached for asserting privileges--and, I would add, no matter how bogus or in bad faith those assertions may be, no matter whether they are in court today arguing the opposite of what they are arguing before you today? And the answer is, yes, the President can be impeached for using the assertion of baseless claims to cover up his misconduct. The House did not impeach the President over a single assertion of privilege.…”