Jim Sensenbrenner

And that is not what the law said, and it is not what the law should be.

But obstruction of Congress, when there is no referee, there is no adjudication, there is nothing but a majority that says, 'You give us what we want until we find a crime, or we are going to throw you out of office,' that is so…

If you, on the other side of the aisle, believe that Joe Biden is a man who tells the truth, you ought to support this amendment

I challenge you, because every one of you that will vote no on this amendment is going to be saying, I think that Joe Biden is a liar.

The important thing is that Bill Clinton lied to a grand jury.

Now, let me say that everybody on both ends of the telephone call between President Trump and President Zelensky has said very clearly there was no quid pro quo offered.

I think it is obvious, you know, to all the American public that this is a railroad job.

This is the third time in the last 40 years, 45 years that this committee has sat to the Articles of Impeachment against the President of the United States.

This is so absurd. It's so absurd.

This is a major step in the surveillance state getting out of control in the hands of the Congress...

You have made Joe McCarthy look like a piker with what you've done with the electronic surveillance involved.

I believe that that was a subpoena that is fully authorized under the law, and under congressional procedures.

To take that out of context, say, he thinks he's a king, let me tell you what a king is.

My friend, Jim Sensenbrenner, said in 41 years, he's never seen anything like what we have going on here to try to oust a sitting President.

The surveillance state can get out of control.

Folks, you have made Joe McCarthy look like a piker with what you've done with the electronic surveillance involved.

Here we see a clear abuse of power on the part of the people who are prosecuting this impeachment against the President of the United States.

That is the beginning of a surveillance state which I think is outrageous, particularly since with the Freedom Act in 2013, we curtailed the NSC's ability about that.

That sets either a very low bar or a nonexistent bar.

I'm a veteran of impeachments. I've been named by the House as an impeachment manager in four impeachments.

There's still evidence being withheld by Adam Schiff that has not come to this committee.

It's not the chairman's right to determine whether we deserve a hearing.

The minority is entitled to a day of hearings, it is a right rarely exercised, but it guards against the majority abusing its power to exclude competing views.

I am furnishing you with a demand for a minority day of hearings on this subject, signed by all of the Republican members.

I agree with you, we need to have a Federal privacy law, which would make my arguments in Europe a lot more persuasive, I would say, but at the same time we've got to be very careful not only in what we want to accomplish, but making sure…