On the recordDecember 18, 2019
The people's House should be better than this. We should be better than this. During the Member's remarks in the Judiciary Committee, the committee's impeachment proceedings, he stated: ``To my Republican colleagues: . . . How do you want to be remembered during this watershed moment in our Nation's history?'' Mr. Speaker, it won't be watching sports on a laptop during official Judiciary Committee proceedings to impeach a sitting President; It won't be using expletives to refer to our President, calling for his impeachment just hours after being sworn into Congress; It won't be using the chairmanship of the once-respected Intelligence Committee to distort the President's words in order to mislead the American people; and It certainly won't be using the most serious and solemn powers of Congress to overturn a legitimate national election for political expediency. No, Mr. Speaker, my fellow Republican colleagues and I won't be remembered in history for doing any of those things because we know this is far too grave a matter for subversions such as these of our democratic Republic. We should all be better than this.
