1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,000 CABINET TO 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,000 USE THE 25TH AMENDMENT TO REMOVE 3 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:05,000 PRESIDENT TRUMP FROM OFFICE FOR 4 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,000 HIS ACTIONS DURING LAST WEEK'S 5 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,000 ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPITOL. 6 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:10,000 AS MEMBERS WERE CONSIDERING THE 7 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,000 RESOLUTION, VICE PRESIDENT PENCE 8 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:14,000 INFORMED SPEAKER PELOSI AND A 9 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:15,000 LETTER HE HAS NO INTENTION OF 10 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,000 USING THE 25TH AMENDMENT AS 11 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:18,000 REQUESTED. 12 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000 IT IS ONE OF SEVERAL MEASURES 13 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,000 THE HOUSE IS CONSIDERING THIS 14 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000 WEEK IN RESPONSE TO THE DEADLY 15 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,000 RIOT ON CAPITOL HILL. 16 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,000 MORROW, THE HOUSE TAKES UP A 17 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:30,000 RESOLUTION TO IMPEACH THE 18 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,000 PRESIDENT FOR INCITING AN INSURRECTION AGAINST THE U.S. 19 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:34,000 GOVERNMENT. 20 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,000 IF PASSED, IT WOULD MAKE DONALD TRUMP THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT 21 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,000 TO BE IMPEACHED TWICE. 22 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 YOU CAN FOLLOW THE HOUSE WHEN IT 23 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,000 RETURNS AND :00 A.M. EASTERN 24 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,000 HERE ON C-SPAN. 25 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,000 UP NEXT, WE WILL SHOW YOU THE 26 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,000 FLOOR DEBATE FROM EARLIER THIS 27 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 EVENING ON THE 25TH AMENDMENT 28 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,000 STARTING WITH MARYLAND 29 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:53,000 REPRESENTATIVE JAMIE RASKIN WHO 30 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,000 INTRODUCED THE RESOLUTION. 31 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,000 >> WE HAVE EXPERIENCED TRAUMA OF 32 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,000 A VIOLENT ATTACK ON THIS HOUSE 33 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,000 OF REPRESENTATIVES ON THIS 34 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:04,000 CHAMBER, AND ON ALL OF THE 35 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,000 PEOPLE WHO WORK HERE. 36 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,000 AN ARMED, LAWLESS AND ENRAGED 37 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,000 MOB SMASHED WINDOWS, BEAT UP AND 38 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,000 CRASHED -- AND CRUSHED CAPITOL 39 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,000 HILL POLICE OFFICERS WHO CRIED 40 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 OUT IN AGONY, OVERCAME AND 41 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:19,000 SUBDUED LAW ENFORCEMENT, KILLED 42 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,000 OR CAUSED THE DEATHS OF AT LEAST 43 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,000 FIVE AMERICAN CITIZENS INCLUDING 44 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,000 A HEROIC CAPITOL HILL POLICE 45 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,000 OFFICER AND FOUR OTHER 46 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,000 . 47 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,000 SERIOUS INJURIES ON DOZENS OF 48 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,000 POLICE OFFICERS AN OTHER PEOPLE 49 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,000 INCLUDING 15 OFFICERS WHO HAD TO 50 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,000 BE HOSPITALIZED. 51 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,000 CHANTING "STOP THE STEAL" AND 52 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,000 "HANG MIKE PENCE" THEY 53 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:44,000 THREATENED THE LIVES AND SAFETY 54 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,000 OF THE THREE INDIVIDUALS IN 55 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,000 LINE OF SUCCESSION TO THE 56 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,000 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 57 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,000 THEY BUILT A GALLOWS RIGHT 58 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 OUTSIDE THE CAPITOL. 59 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 THEY SCREAMED "WHERE'S NANCY," 60 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,000 THEY STORMED THE SPEAKER'S 61 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,000 OFFICE AND OCCUPIED IT, STOLE 62 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,000 GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, THEY 63 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,000 TRASHED THE PLACE. 64 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 THEY TERRORIZED OFFICERS STAFF 65 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,000 AND MEMBER THEY BRANDISHED THE 66 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,000 CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG IN THE 67 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,000 CAPITOL OF THE UNITED STATES, 68 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 SOMETHING THAT DIDN'T EVEN 69 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,000 HAPPEN IN THE CIVIL WAR. 70 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 THEY ALLOWED HUNDRED OR 71 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,000 THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO ENTER THE 72 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:17,000 CAPITOL WITHOUT METAL DETECTORS 73 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 OR ANY KIND OF SECURITY 74 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,000 SCREENING AT ALL. 75 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,000 NOT ONLY TO DESECRATE THE TEMPLE 76 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,000 OF DEMOCRACY AND SPIT IN THE 77 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 FACE OF CONGRESS BUT ACTUALLY TO 78 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 INTERFERE WITH THE COUNTING OF 79 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES IN THE 80 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. 81 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,000 THEY MAY HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR 82 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 VICE PRESIDENT PENCE AND SPEAKER 83 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000 PELOSI BUT EVERY PERSON IN THIS 84 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,000 ROOM COULD HAVE DIED. 85 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 AS A SHAKEN SENATOR LINDSEY 86 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,000 GRAHAM SAID, THE MOB COULD HAVE 87 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 BLOWN THE BUILDING UP, THEY 88 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 COULD HAVE KILLED US ALL. 89 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,000 MR. SPEAKER, WHETHER OR NOT YOU 90 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 BELIEVE THE PRESIDENT'S COURSE 91 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 OF CONDUCT IN ENCOURAGING, 92 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000 BUILD, SULL MONOING ASSEMBLING, 93 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 AND INFLAMING THE MOB LIGHTING 94 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,000 THE FLAME, AS CONGRESSWOMAN LIZ 95 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,000 CHANEY PUT IT IN A VERY POWERFUL 96 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 AND COGENT STATEMENT THIS 97 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,000 EVENING, WHETHER YOU BELIEVE 98 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,000 THAT WAS A HIGH CRIME AND 99 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 MISDEMEANOR, AN OFFENSE AGAINST THE REPUBLIC, THAT'S THE 100 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 QUESTION FOR ANOTHER TIME AND TO 101 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,000 PUT MY CARDS ON THE TABLE, I 102 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 THINK IT WAS A CRIME AGAINST THE 103 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,000 REPUBLIC. BUT LEAVING THAT ASIDE, I THINK 104 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,000 EVERY MEMBER IN THIS BODY SHOULD 105 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,000 BE ABLE TO AGREE THAT THIS 106 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,000 PRESIDENT IS NOT MEETING THE 107 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 MOST MINIMAL DUTIES OF OFFICE. 108 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,000 HE IS NOT MEETING THE OATH HE 109 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000 SWORE TO UPHOLD AND DEFEND THE 110 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 CONSTITUTION. 111 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:34,000 AGAINST ALL ENEMIES FOREIGN AND 112 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,000 DOMESTIC. 113 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,000 HE IS NOT PROTECTING AND 114 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,000 DEFENDING THE DEMOCRACY ITSELF, 115 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 THE PROCESS OF ELECTING THE 116 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,000 PRESIDENT. 117 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 HE IS NOT RESPECTING THE 118 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,000 PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER. 119 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 HE IS NOT TAKING CARE THAT THE 120 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 LAWS ARE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED. 121 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 HE IS NOT PROTECTING THE 122 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 REPUBLIC AGAINST MOB 123 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 INSURRECTION INVASION AND 124 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,000 HOSTILITY. 125 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,000 HE'S NOT PROTECTING THE 126 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:00,000 REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT TO 127 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,000 THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES 128 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 WHEN HE ALLOW THIS IS TO HAPPEN. 129 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 THIS RESOLUTION IS SIMPLY ASKING 130 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,000 VICE PRESIDENT PENCE TO EXERCISE 131 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,000 HIS POWERS UNDER ARTICLE 25 -- 132 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,000 THE 25TH AMENDMENT, I GRANT 133 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,000 MYSELF 30 SECONDS MORE. 134 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN IS GRANTED 30 135 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 ADDITIONAL SECONDS. 136 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,000 MR. RASKIN: WE ARE SIMPLY ASKING 137 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,000 VICE PRESIDENT PENCE TO EXERCISE 138 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 HIS POWER UNDER THE 25TH 139 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,000 AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION, 140 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 SECTION 4, TO CONVENE THE 141 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 CABINET AND TO MOBILIZE THE 142 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 CABINET TO STATE AND ARTICULATE 143 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,000 WHAT IS OBVIOUS TO THE AMERICAN 144 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,000 PEOPLE THIS PRESIDENT IS NOT 145 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,000 MEETING THE DUTIES OF OFFICE AND 146 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 IS CLEARLY NOT CAPABLE OF IT. 147 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,000 AND TO TRANSFER THE POWERS TO 148 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,000 THE VICE PRESIDENT UNDER THE 149 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 25TH AMENDMENT. 150 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,000 WITH THATTERING I YIELD NOW FOR 151 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,000 ONE MINUTE -- I RESERVE THE 152 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,000 BALANCE OF MY TIME. 153 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 154 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES. 155 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO IS 156 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,000 RECOGNIZED. 157 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 MR. JORDAN: I YIELD TO THE 158 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA, MR. 159 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 MCCLINTOCK, FOR 2 1/2 MINUTES. 160 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR TWO 161 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 AND A HALF MINUTES. 162 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,000 MR. MCCLINTOCK: WHAT A SAD AND 163 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 OMINOUS WAY TO BEGIN THE 117TH 164 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 CONGRESS. HASN'T THIS BODY DONE ENOUGH IN 165 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,000 THE LAST SESSION TO DIVIDE OUR 166 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 COUNTRY AND ABUSE OUR 167 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:23,000 CONSTITUTION WITHOUT CARRYING 168 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 THAT DAMAGE INTO THE NEW 169 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,000 SESSION? THE 25TH AMENDMENT SPECIFICALLY 170 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,000 ADDRESSES THE INCAPACITY OF THE 171 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,000 PRESIDENT TO DISCHARGE THE 172 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,000 DUTIES OF HIS OFFICE. 173 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,000 IT WAS NEVER INTENDED AS A 174 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,000 POLITICAL WEAPON WHEN CONGRESS 175 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 DOESN'T LIKE THE WAY HE 176 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 DISCHARGES THOSE DUTIES. 177 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 I'VE READ THIS SPEECH. 178 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,000 HE NEVER SUGGESTED RAMPAGING THE 179 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:47,000 CAPITOL AND DISRUPTING THE 180 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,000 CONGRESS. 181 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 HE URGED THEM TO, AND THIS IS AN 182 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 EXACT QUOTE PEACEFULLY AND 183 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:55,000 PATRIOTCALLY MAKE THEIR VOICES 184 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,000 HEARD. 185 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,000 MANY OF US REPUBLICANS JOINED A 186 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 BIPARTISAN VOTE TO RESPECT THE 187 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,000 ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES DESPITE 188 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 OUR SUSPICIONS AND OUR 189 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,000 MISGIVINGS AND OUR DESIRES. 190 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,000 WE DID THIS BECAUSE THE 191 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 CONSTITUTION COMMANDED IT AND 192 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 OUR INSTITUTIONS DEPEND ON IT. 193 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 TODAY THOSE SAME PRINCIPLES 194 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 SHOULD COMPEL A BIPARTISAN VOTE 195 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,000 TO OPPOSE THIS GROTESQUE ABUSE 196 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,000 OF THE 25TH AMENDMENT. 197 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 LAST WEEK, THE MAJORITY ARGUED 198 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,000 THAT THE PRESIDENT TRIED TO 199 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,000 MISUSE THE CONSTITUTION TO 200 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,000 OVERTURN THE VOTES OF THE 201 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 ELECTORAL COLLEGE. 202 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 HE ASSERTED NO DIRECT POWER 203 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:39,000 RATHER, HE URGED THE VICE 204 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,000 PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS TO DO SO. 205 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 MANY OF US DECLINED HIS BAD 206 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,000 ADVICE. 207 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,000 YET THIS WEEK THE MAJORITY 208 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,000 DIRECTLY IS ASSERTING POWER TO 209 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,000 MISUSE THE 25TH AMENDMENT IN A 210 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:53,000 MANNER THAT DOES OVERTURN THE 211 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,000 VOTES OF THE PREVIOUS ELECTORAL 212 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 COLLEGE. 213 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000 DON'T THEY SEE THAT THEY ARE 214 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 COMMITTING DIRECTLY THE SAME 215 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,000 OFFENSE THEY ACCUSE THE 216 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,000 PRESIDENT OF COMMITTING 217 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:08,000 INDIRECTLY. 218 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,000 EVERY ACT WE TAKE BUILDS A 219 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,000 PRECEDENT FOR FUTURE ACTS. 220 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 ONCE CONGRESS ASSERT THIS IS NEW 221 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,000 ROLE AS ARM CHIRE PSYCHIATRISTS 222 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,000 AND A NEW POWER TO EQUATE 223 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,000 INTEMPERATE SPEECH WITH 224 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 FUNCTIONAL DISABILITY THE MOST 225 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,000 IMPORTANT PILLARS OF OUR 226 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 GOVERNMENT, STABILITY, THE RULE 227 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,000 OF LAW AND THE SEPARATION OF 228 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,000 POWERS WILL FRACTURE. 229 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 IT WON'T AFFECT THIS PRESIDENT. 230 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,000 BUT IT WILL STOP FUTURE 231 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,000 PRESIDENTS FROM THIS DAY 232 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 FORWARD. FOR THEIR SAKE, PLEASE DON'T DO 233 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:43,000 THIS. 234 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:48,000 I YIELD BACK. 235 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: DOES 236 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 THE GENTLEMAN RESERVE? 237 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND IS 238 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,000 RECOGNIZED. MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE 239 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:56,000 TO SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI. 240 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 241 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, MS. PELOSI 242 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,000 OF CALIFORNIA SMBING RECOGNIZED. 243 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,000 THE SPEAKER: THANK YOU VERY 244 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,000 MUCH, MR. SPEAKER. 245 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:03,000 I THANK THE GENTLEMAN FOR 246 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,000 YIELDING AND APPLAUD HIM AND 247 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:08,000 SALUTE HIM AS A CONSTITUTIONAL 248 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 SCHOLAR, AN INTELLECTUAL 249 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,000 RESOURCE, AND THE FORCE OF 250 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,000 JUSTICE HE HAS BEEN AS HE 251 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,000 ADVANCED THIS RESOLUTION. 252 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 I THANK THE ENTIRE HOUSE, THE 253 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:20,000 DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS FOR LOVE OF 254 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,000 COUNTRY, DETERMINATION TO 255 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,000 PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY AND 256 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 LOYALTY TO OUR OATH THAT HAS 257 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,000 BEEN SO BEAUTIFULLY MANIFESTED 258 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,000 IN THIS DARK PAST WEEK. 259 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000 MR. SPEAKER, A DARK WEEK IT HAS 260 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,000 BEEN INDEED. 261 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,000 ON WEDNESDAY, THE PRESIDENT OF 262 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,000 THE UNITED STATES INCITED A 263 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,000 DEADLY INSURRECTION AGAINST 264 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,000 AMERICA THAT TARGETED THE VERY 265 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,000 HEART OF OUR DEMOCRACY THIS 266 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,000 TEMPLE OF DEMOCRACY, THE UNITED 267 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,000 STATES CAPITOL. 268 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 DEFILING THE GENIUS OF THE 269 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,000 CONSTITUTION, SEPARATE BUT 270 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,000 EQUAL, ATTACKING THE FIRST 271 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,000 BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT. 272 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,000 TRYING TO PREVENT US FROM 273 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,000 ASCERTAINING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL 274 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,000 DUTY TO ASCERTAIN THAT JOE BIDEN 275 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,000 AND KAMALA HARRIS WILL BE 276 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,000 PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF 277 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 THE UNITED STATES. 278 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,000 THE GLEEFUL DESECRATION THEY 279 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,000 HAVE -- GLEEFUL DESECRATION OF 280 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,000 THE CAPITOL AND VIOLENCE AGAINST 281 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 THE CONGRESS, OUR STAFF AND OUR 282 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,000 WORKERS ARE HORRORS THAT WILL 283 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 FOREVER STAIN OUR NATION'S 284 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:27,000 HISTORY. FIVE AMERICANS HAVE DIED 285 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,000 FOLLOWING THE VIOLENT ATTACK. 286 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,000 MORE THAN 50 POLICE OFFICERS 287 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000 WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED INCLUDING 288 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,000 15 OFFICERS WHO WERE 289 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,000 HOSPITALIZED. 290 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,000 ON BEHALF OF THE HOUSE, I SALUTE 291 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,000 AND EXPRESS DEEPESTEST GRATITUDE 292 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:41,000 TO THE U.S. CAPITOL POLICE FOR 293 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,000 THE VALOR THEY SHOWED IN 294 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,000 PROTECTING THE LIVES OF MEMBERS 295 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 ESPECIALLY PROTECTING OUR STAFF 296 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,000 AND THOSE WHO MAKE CONGRESS 297 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:54,000 FUNCTION. 298 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,000 MR. SPEAKER, THIS IS A SAD DAY 299 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,000 FOR OUR COUNTRY, THAT WE HAVE TO 300 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,000 COME TO THE FLOOR IN A WAY TO 301 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,000 DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE 302 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,000 UNITED STATES AT THIS TIME. 303 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,000 THE FACTS ARE VERY CLEAR. 304 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,000 THE PRESIDENT CALLED FOR THIS 305 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,000 SEDITIOUS ATTACK. 306 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000 FOR DAYS HE URGED SUPPORTERS TO 307 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,000 COME TO WASHINGTON FOR THE 308 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:19,000 INSURRECTION. 309 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,000 WEDNESDAY MORNING HE 310 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,000 PARTICIPATED IN A RALLY TO 311 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,000 ENCOURAGE THE RIOTERS TO MARCH 312 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 ON THE CAPITOL AND FIGHT. 313 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,000 AND NOT ONLY DID HE URGE PEOPLE 314 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,000 TO MARCH ON THE CAPITOL AND 315 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,000 FIGHT, HE FURTHER FANNED THE 316 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,000 FLAMES AND HE AND HIS FAMILY 317 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 CHEERED AND CELEBRATED THE 318 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 DESECRATION OF THE CAPITOL. 319 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 LATER THAT DAY AS THE DANGERS 320 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 ESCALATED, HE IGNORE AND FLAT 321 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 OUT REJECTED THE PLEAS OF 322 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,000 CONGRESS INCLUDING THOSE OF HIS 323 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,000 OWN PARTY, TO CALL OFF HIS 324 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,000 SUPPORTERS, THE RIOTERS, THE 325 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,000 TERRORISTS, AS THEY ENGAGED IN 326 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,000 VANDALISM AND VIOLENCE. 327 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,000 LATER THAT -- AND NOW THE 328 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,000 PRESIDENT IS SAYING THAT HE IS 329 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,000 NOT RESPONSIBLE AND THAT HIS 330 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,000 INCITEMENT TO VIOLENCE WAS 331 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,000 TOTALLY APPROPRIATE. 332 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,000 THE PRESIDENT'S ACTIONS 333 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,000 DEMONSTRATE HIS ABSOLUTE 334 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,000 INABILITY TO DISCHARGE THE MOST 335 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 BASIC AND FUNDAMENTAL DUTIES OF 336 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,000 HIS OFFICE THEREFORE THE 337 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,000 PRESIDENT MUST BE REMOVED FROM 338 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,000 OFFICE IMMEDIATELY. 339 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,000 THIS IS A DECISION WE MAKE WITH 340 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,000 THE UTMOST SOLEMNNYITY AND 341 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 PRAYERFULNESS WHICH THIS CRISIS 342 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,000 REQUIRES. REMOVAL OF THE PRESIDENT IS AN 343 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 UNPRECEDENTED ACTION BUT IT IS 344 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,000 REQUIRED BECAUSE HE IS AN -- 345 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,000 BECAUSE IT IS AN UNPRECEDENTED 346 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,000 MOMENT IN HISTORY BECAUSE OF THE 347 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:41,000 DANGER HE POSES. 348 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,000 I HEARD THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER SAY 349 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,000 THAT WE ARE OBJECTING TO THE 350 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,000 PRESIDENT BECAUSE WE DON'T LIKE 351 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:52,000 THE WAY HE EXECUTES THE DUTIES. 352 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,000 WE DON'T LIKE IT AT ALL. 353 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,000 INCITEMENT TO INSURRECTION. 354 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,000 TREASONOUS ACTIVITY. 355 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 AND IF YOU ARE ASSOCIATING 356 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 YOURSELF WITH THAT AS THE PROPER 357 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:05,000 EXECUTION OF THE PRESIDENT'S 358 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,000 DUTIES, YOU ARE ASSOCIATING 359 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,000 YOURSELF WITH SEDITION AND 360 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 TREASON. 361 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:15,000 YESTERDAY, IN A PRO FORMA 362 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 SESSION, WE INTRODUCED A 363 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST TO 364 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,000 TAKE UP CONGRESSMAN RASKIN'S 365 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,000 LEGISLATION WHICH CALLS ON THE 366 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,000 VICE PRESIDENT TO MOBILIZE THE 367 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000 CABINET TO ACTIVATE THE 25TH 368 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,000 AMENDMENT TO REMOVE THE 369 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,000 PRESIDENT FROM OFFICE. 370 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,000 AGAIN, TO PREVENT HIM FROM CAUSE 371 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 MANAGER DAMAGE TO OUR COUNTRY. 372 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,000 WHO KNOWS WHAT HE MIGHT DO NEXT. 373 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 HOUSE REPUBLICANS REJECTED THIS 374 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,000 LEGISLATION. 375 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,000 AND SO THE PRESIDENT'S UNHINGED, 376 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,000 UNSTABLE DERANGED ACTS OF 377 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,000 SEDITION MAY CONTINUE, 378 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,000 ENDANGERING AMERICA AND 379 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,000 UNDERMINING OUR DEMOCRACY. 380 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,000 NOW WE ARE TAKING UP THIS 381 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,000 LEGISLATION IN REGULAR SESSION. 382 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,000 AFTER PASSAGE WE ARE CALLING ON 383 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 THE VICE PRESIDENT TO RESPOND 384 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,000 WITHIN 24 HOURS OF PASSAGE. 385 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,000 THIS RESOLUTION GIVES A CLEAR 386 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,000 CHOICE TO HONOR THE OATH OF 387 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000 OFFICE, TO DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY 388 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,000 AND UPHOLD THE SACRED TRUST 389 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,000 GIVEN TO US BY THE CONSTITUTION 390 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,000 AND BY THOSE WHOM WE REPRESENT. 391 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,000 MR. SPEAKER, DURING THE 392 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000 PRESIDENT TRUMP PRESIDENCY, 393 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,000 THESE FOUR YEARS, AND ESPECIALLY 394 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 DURING THIS SAD TIME, I RECALL 395 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:25,000 THE WORDS OF THE GREAT ISRAELI 396 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,000 POWER, HE SAID WHEN HE SAID I 397 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,000 CAN'T KEEP SILENCE IN LIGHT OF 398 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:35,000 HOW MY COUNTRY HAS CHANGED. 399 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,000 WENT QUIT TRYING TO REMIND HER 400 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 IN HER EARS, I'LL SING MY PRIDE 401 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 UNTIL SHE OPENS HER EYES. 402 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:48,000 I CAN'T KEEP SILENT OF HOW MY 403 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,000 COUNTRY HAS CHANGED. 404 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,000 I URGE MY REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES 405 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,000 TO OPEN THEIR EYES AND TO 406 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 FINALLY HOLD THIS PRESIDENT 407 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,000 ACCOUNTABLE. THE SECURITY OF OUR COUNTRY AND 408 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,000 THE FUTURE OF OUR VERY DEMOCRACY 409 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:03,000 ARE AT STAKE. 410 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,000 WHEN WE PRAY GOD BLESS AMERICA, 411 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,000 LET US HOPE THAT BLESSING COMES 412 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,000 DOWN STRONGLY ON US THE NEXT FEW 413 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:10,000 DAYS. 414 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,000 WITH THAT, MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD 415 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,000 BACK THE BALANCE OF MY TIME AND 416 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,000 AGAIN APPLAUD THE GREAT 417 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000 LEADERSHIP OF MR. RASKIN. 418 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 419 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 420 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:21,000 SPEAKER YIELDS BACK. 421 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,000 DOES THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND RESERVE? 422 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,000 MR. RASKIN: I RESERVE, YES. 423 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:24,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO IS 424 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,000 RECOGNIZED. MR. JORDAN: MR. SPEAKER, I 425 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,000 YIELD TWO MINUTES TO THE 426 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,000 GENTLEMAN FROM VIRGINIA, MR. CLINE. 427 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR TWO 428 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,000 MINUTES. 429 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,000 MR. CLINE: THANK YOU MR. 430 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 SPEAKER. I RISE TODAY IN OPPOSITION TO 431 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,000 HOUSE RESOLUTION 21, CALLING ON 432 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 VICE PRESIDENT PENCE TO INVOKE 433 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,000 SECTION 4 OF THE 25TH 434 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,000 AMENDMENT. 435 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:39,000 LIKE ALL OF US I CONDEMN IN 436 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMENTS 437 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,000 THE VIOLENCE THAT OWE -- TERMS 438 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:43,000 THE VIOLENCE THAT OCCURRED HERE 439 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,000 IN OUR NATION'S CAPITOL LAST 440 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,000 WEEK. 441 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:47,000 POLITICAL VIOLENCE IS NEVER THE 442 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,000 ANSWER REGARDLESS OF WHICH 443 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 SIDE OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM 444 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,000 IT OCCURS. 445 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,000 AND THAT'S A STRONGLY HELD 446 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,000 POSITION ON WHICH I'VE BEEN 447 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,000 CLEAR SINCE WELL BEFORE MY TIME 448 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,000 IN CONGRESS. 449 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:57,000 LET'S BE CLEAR ABOUT A FEW 450 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,000 THINGS. THE ADOPTION OF THIS POLITICAL 451 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,000 RESOLUTION WOULD BE DIVISIVE 452 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,000 RATHER THAN UNIFYING. 453 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS SAID HE 454 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,000 HAS NO INTENTION OF TAKING 455 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,000 ACTION UNDER THE AMENDMENT. 456 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 SO THIS PROCESS IS PURE 457 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,000 POLITICAL THEATER ON THE PART 458 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,000 OF THE MAJORITY. 459 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:13,000 IN ADDITION, NO DUE PROCESS HAS 460 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 BEEN PROVIDED. 461 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 AS A FORM PROSECUTOR OF LAW 462 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,000 ENFORCEMENT --, IF LAW 463 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,000 ENFORCEMENT BROUGHT EVIDENCE OF 464 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,000 A CRIME TO ME AND SAID, TAKE 465 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,000 THIS TO THE JURY TOMORROW, 466 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,000 THERE WOULD BE NO TIME FOR THE 467 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000 DEFENDANT TO PREPARE A DEFENSE, 468 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:27,000 I WOULD BE VIOLATING RULES AND 469 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:28,000 PROCEDURE. 470 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:29,000 IN THE MORE THAN 50 YEARS SINCE 471 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,000 THE 25TH AMENDMENT WAS 472 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,000 RATIFIED, SECTION 4 HAS NEVER 473 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,000 BEEN INVOKED. 474 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,000 AS SUCH, THERE ARE NO JUDICIAL 475 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,000 OR AUTHORITATIVE OPINIONS THAT 476 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,000 WOULD EVALUATE ITS 477 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:40,000 IMPLEMENTATION AND ABSENT THIS 478 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,000 WE MUST LOOK TO THE LEGISLATIVE 479 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,000 INTENT OF THE CONGRESS THAT 480 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,000 PASSED ITS LANGUAGE AND NOWHERE 481 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:45,000 IN THE LEGISLATIVE INTENT IS 482 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,000 THE CURRENT SITUATION 483 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:47,000 ENVISIONED. 484 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,000 IT'S MEANT TO BE USED FOR 485 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,000 INCAPACITY, NOT FOR POLITICAL 486 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000 ENDS WITH EIGHT DAYS REMAINING 487 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,000 IN A PRESIDENT'S TERM. 488 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,000 LAST WEEK VICE PRESIDENT PENCE 489 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,000 WAS LAUDED BY THE MAJORITY FOR 490 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,000 NOT YIELDING TO PRESSURE TO 491 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,000 EXERT POWER BEYOND HIS 492 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,000 CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO 493 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,000 DETERMINE THE OUTCOME OF THE 494 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:01,000 ELECTION. 495 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,000 YET THE MAJORITY TODAY IS 496 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:03,000 ATTEMPTING TO PRESSURE HIM TO 497 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 EXERT POWER BEYOND THE 498 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,000 INTENTION OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL 499 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,000 ROLE IN SECTION 4 OF THE 25TH 500 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:09,000 AMENDMENT. THIS ACTION WILL ONLY FURTHER 501 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,000 FUEL THE POLITICAL DIVIDE AMONG 502 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,000 OUR CITIZENS AND WILL BE 503 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,000 DETRIMENTAL TO THE LONG-TERM 504 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 EFFORTS TO UNIFY OUR COUNTRY. 505 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,000 MR. SPEAKER, BOTH PRESIDENT 506 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,000 TRUMP AND PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN 507 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,000 HAVE CALLED FOR A PEACEFUL 508 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,000 TRANSITION OF POWER. 509 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 I WOULD ENCOURAGE MEMBERS OF BOTH PARTIES TO WORK TOWARD 510 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,000 THIS END AND VOTE AGAINST THIS 511 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,000 RUSHED MISGUIDED POLITICALLY 512 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,000 MOTIVATED RESOLUTION. I YIELD BACK. 513 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:31,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 514 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 515 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:33,000 MR. JORDAN: I RESERVE. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 516 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:34,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE 517 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,000 OF HIS TIME. 518 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. 519 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,000 MR. RASKIN: I NOW YIELD ONE 520 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,000 MINUTE TO MS. LOFGREN. 521 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 522 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,000 GENTLELADY FROM CALIFORNIA MS. 523 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,000 LOFGREN, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE 524 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,000 HOUSE ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE, 525 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,000 IS RECOGNIZED. 526 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,000 MS. LOFGREN: MR. SPEAKER, LAST 527 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,000 WEEK, AS WE COUNTED ELECTORAL 528 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,000 COLLEGE VOTES, I SAID, THIS DAY 529 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,000 MARKS A CROSSROAD FOR OUR 530 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,000 AMERICAN -- CROSSROADS FOR OUR 531 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,000 AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. 532 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,000 WE DIDN'T KNOW THEN WHAT AN 533 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:58,000 OMINOUS STATEMENT THAT WAS. 534 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,000 WE DO KNOW. 535 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,000 CONGRESS WAS ATTACKED BY A 536 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,000 VIOLENT MOB INCITED BY THE 537 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,000 PRESIDENT TO STOP US FROM DOING 538 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 OUR CONSTITUTIONAL JOB. 539 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,000 THE PRESIDENT NOT ONLY 540 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,000 ENCOURAGED THE MOB, HE SAID HE 541 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,000 LOVED THEM AND MADE NO SERIOUS 542 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,000 EFFORT TO STOP THEM. 543 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,000 LIVES WERE LOST AND PUT IN 544 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,000 DANGER. CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT WAS 545 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,000 URGENTLY THREATENED. 546 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:19,000 THE PRESIDENT'S ACTIONS WERE 547 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,000 NOT ONLY WRONG, THEY WERE 548 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:22,000 DANGEROUS. 549 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 HE LIVES IN AN ALTERNATE 550 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,000 REALITY. 551 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,000 HE'S A CONTINUING THREAT TO 552 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,000 AMERICA. 553 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,000 VICE PRESIDENT PENCE SHOULD 554 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,000 INVOKE THE 25TH AMENDMENT, 555 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,000 ASSUME PRESIDENTIAL DUTIES 556 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000 UNTIL THE INAUGURATION NEXT 557 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,000 WEEK, AND SAVE US FROM A 558 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,000 PRESIDENT WHO IS UNABLE TO 559 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,000 FUNCTION, UNABLE TO PROTECT OUR 560 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,000 COUNTRY. 561 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,000 I URGE ALL INCLUDING MY 562 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,000 REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES, TO PUT 563 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,000 POLITICS ASIDE. 564 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,000 ACT TO SECURE THE SAFETY OF OUR 565 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,000 COUNTRY. 566 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,000 WE TRULY ARE AT A CROSSROADS 567 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,000 FOR OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. 568 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 569 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. 570 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 MR. RASKIN: I RESERVE. 571 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE 572 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,000 OF HIS TIME. 573 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:06,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO IS RECOGNIZED. 574 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,000 MR. JORDAN: MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD TWO -- I YIELD TWO 575 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,000 MINUTES TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM 576 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,000 ARIZONA. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 577 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:15,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. 578 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,000 MR. BIGGS: THANK YOU. THE VIOLENCE HAS BEEN 579 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,000 CONDEMNED. 580 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,000 SO I WONDERER WOULD WHY ARE THE 581 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:19,000 DEMOCRATS STOKING THE FIRE 582 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,000 INSTEAD OF DOUSING THE FLAMES? 583 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,000 THIS 25TH AMENDMENT RESOLUTION 584 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000 IS ACTUALLY SIMILAR WITH SOME 585 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,000 DIFFERENCES FROM THE PROPOSAL 586 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,000 FILED IN OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR 587 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,000 BY THE SAME REPRESENTATIVE AND 588 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,000 JOINED BY 42 DEMOCRATS. 589 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,000 THE PROBLEM THAT TIME IS THEY 590 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,000 WERE TRYING TO GET THIS 591 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,000 COMMISSION TOGETHER. 592 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,000 THIS TIME THEY WANT THE VICE 593 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,000 PRESIDENT TO INVOKE THE OTHER 594 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,000 PORTION OF ARTICLE 4. 595 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,000 BUT THE PROBLEM, OF COURSE, IS 596 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,000 THE VICE PRESIDENT SAID IN A 597 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:50,000 VERY LOVELY LETTER TO THEM 598 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,000 SAYING HE'S NOT GOING TO DO 599 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,000 THAT. 600 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,000 SO OUR NATION IS DIVIDED. 601 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,000 AND WHILE FOLKS ON THE LEFT ARE 602 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,000 TRYING TO LAY THIS ALL ON 603 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,000 PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOU SHOULD 604 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,000 CONSIDER A FEW STATEMENTS FROM 605 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,000 CLIQUES ACROSS THE AISLE. 606 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,000 ONE OF OUR COLLEAGUES -- 607 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,000 COLLEAGUES ACROSS THE AISLE. 608 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,000 ONE OF OUR COLLEAGUES AT ONE 609 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,000 POINT SAID, IF YOU SEE ANYBODY 610 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,000 FROM THAT CABINET IN A 611 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,000 RESTAURANT AND DEPARTMENT 612 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000 STORE, GAS STATION YOU GET OUT 613 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:12,000 AND CREATE A CROWD AND YOU PUSH 614 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,000 BACK ON THEM AND YOU TELL THEM, 615 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,000 THEY'RE NOT WELCOME HERE. 616 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,000 THEY'RE NOT WELCOME ANYMORE 617 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,000 ANYWHERE. 618 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,000 SENATOR BOOKER CALLED FOR HIS 619 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,000 SUPPORTERS TO GO TO THE HILL 620 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000 TODAY, GET UP AND PLEASE GET UP 621 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 IN THE FACE OF SOME CONGRESS 622 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,000 PEOPLE. I HAVE DOZENS OF MORE SIMILAR 623 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:29,000 STATEMENTS. 624 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,000 BUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 625 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,000 HERE TODAY IS A RESOLUTION 626 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,000 ASKING THE VICE PRESIDENT TO 627 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,000 INVOKE THE 25TH AMENDMENT AND 628 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,000 GET THE CABINET TOGETHER TO 629 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,000 REMOVE THIS PRESIDENT. 630 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,000 AND WHAT THAT DOES, IT IS 631 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,000 BASICALLY DOING WHAT THE 632 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:47,000 DEMOCRATS WRONGFULLY CLAIMED 633 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,000 PRESIDENT TRUMP DID ON JANUARY 634 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,000 6. IT POURS GAS ON THE SMOLDERING 635 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000 EMBERS WHICH CONSIST OF TENS OF 636 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,000 MILLIONS WHO BELIEVE THE 637 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,000 INTEGRITY OF THE ELECTION WAS 638 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,000 QUESTIONABLE. THEY FEEL DISENFRANCHISED. 639 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,000 AND QUITE FRANKLY, THEY ARE 640 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000 MORE ANGRY THAN AGGRIEVED. 641 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 SOME BELIEVE THAT BY DOING 642 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,000 THIS, IT'S GOING TO BE HEALING. 643 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,000 I HEARD THIS GENTLEMAN SAY THIS 644 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,000 IN THE RULES COMMITTEE. 645 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 DOING THIS TODAY WOULD BE 646 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:14,000 HEALING. AND YET THE VICE PRESIDENT SAID 647 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,000 HE'S NOT GOING TO DO THAT. 648 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,000 AND IF THIS RESOLUTION IS TO 649 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,000 ASK THE VICE PRESIDENT TO 650 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:23,000 INVOKE THIS 25TH AMENDMENT, -- 651 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 652 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,000 GENTLEMAN HAS AN ADDITIONAL 30 653 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,000 SECONDS. 654 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 MR. BIGGS: THANK YOU. IF THIS IS WHAT THE PURPOSE OF 655 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,000 THIS IS, TO ASK THE VICE 656 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,000 PRESIDENT, THEN THE PURPOSE IS 657 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,000 NOW NULL. 658 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,000 BUT I SUGGEST TO YOU, IT LOOKS 659 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,000 LIKE IT WOULD APPEAR LIKE, IF 660 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000 WE'RE GOING TO PROCEED ON EVEN 661 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,000 AFTER YOU RECEIVED THE ANSWER 662 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:48,000 YOU'RE SEEKING AND IT'S 663 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 DISAPPROBATION OF YOUR IDEA, 664 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,000 THE ONLY THING THAT COULD BE 665 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,000 LEFT IS TO POUR GAS ON A FIRE. 666 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,000 I'M ASKING THAT COOLER HEADS 667 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:54,000 PREVAIL HERE. 668 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,000 THIS IS NOT NECESSARY. 669 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,000 DON'T LET THIS GET IN THE WAY 670 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,000 -- AND JUST TO PARROT THE LAST 671 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,000 SPEAKER, I'M ASKING FRIENDS 672 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,000 ACROSS THE AISLE, DON'T DO THIS 673 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,000 THING. 674 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 675 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,000 GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO, YOU 676 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,000 RESERVE? 677 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,000 MR. JORDAN: RESERVE. 678 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE 679 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,000 OF HIS TIME. 680 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. MR. RASKIN: MR. SPEAKER, THE 681 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,000 GENTLEMAN REASONABLY POSES THE 682 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,000 QUESTION, WHY ARE WE DOING 683 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,000 THIS? 684 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,000 WE THINK THAT THE PRESIDENT OF 685 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000 THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTES A 686 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,000 CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE 687 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,000 REPUBLIC. 688 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000 AND TO OUR PEOPLE. 689 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000 FOR EXAMPLE, ON THE WHITE 690 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,000 SUPREMACIST WEBSITES THAT 691 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,000 HELPED TO BUILD THE PRESIDENT'S 692 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,000 MOB, THEY ARE NOW CALLING FOR A 693 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,000 RETURN ENGAGEMENT ON THE DAYS 694 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 OF JANUARY 19 AND 20. 695 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 THEY ARE CALLING AGAIN FOR AN 696 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,000 ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL AND 697 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 THEY'RE CALLING AGAIN FOR THE 698 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 STATE LEGISLATURES NOW IN 50 699 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,000 STATES TO BE SURROUNDED. 700 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000 WHAT WILL THE ATTITUDE BE OF 701 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,000 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 702 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,000 STATES? WILL HE GIVE THEM AID AND 703 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,000 COMFORT? WILL HE WINK AT THEM? 704 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000 WILL HE SEND THEM POSITIVE 705 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,000 TWEETS AND MESSAGES CALLING 706 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,000 THEM PATRIOTS? 707 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,000 ALSO ON EXTREME RIGHT WING 708 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,000 WEBSITES, THEY'RE CALLING FOR 709 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,000 PRESIDENT TO PARDON THE 710 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,000 ORGANIZERS OF THE ARMED VIOLENT 711 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,000 INSURRECTION THAT TOOK PLACE IN 712 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 THIS BODY NOT EVEN A WEEK AGO. 713 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 AND WHAT IF THE PRESIDENT 714 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,000 DECIDES TO PARDON THEM? 715 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,000 WE KNOW THIS PRESIDENT IS NOT 716 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,000 LIVING UP TO THE MOST MINIMAL 717 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,000 DUTIES OF HIS OFFICE. 718 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,000 THAT'S WHY WE ARE DOING THIS. 719 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000 TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC. 720 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,000 AND BY THE WAY, WE'RE NOT 721 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:30,000 TELLING THE VICE PRESIDENT WHAT 722 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,000 HE MUST DO. 723 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,000 WE HAVE NO AUTHORITY TO DO 724 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,000 THAT. 725 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,000 WE'RE TELLING HIM WHAT HE 726 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,000 THINKS HE SHOULD DO AND THAT 727 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,000 THE CONGRESS WILL BE WITH HIM. 728 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000 BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT HE HAS 729 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000 COME UNDER EXTREME RIGHT WING 730 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 PRESSURE ON EVERYTHING FROM THE 731 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,000 COUNTING OF THE ELECTORAL 732 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,000 COLLEGE VOTES TO HIS POSITIONS 733 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000 ON A WHOLE RANGE OF THINGS, TO 734 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000 GO ALONG WITH DONALD TRUMP. 735 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,000 SO WE ARE TRYING TO COUNTER 736 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,000 BALANCE -- COUNTERBALANCE THAT 737 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,000 ATTACK ON HIM FROM THE RIGHT TO 738 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,000 SAY, THE PEOPLE WANT TO SEE A 739 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:58,000 PEACEFUL WAY THROUGH THIS. 740 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000 WITH THAT, I WILL RECOGNIZE MS. 741 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:01,000 JACKSON LEE FOR ONE MINUTE. 742 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 743 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,000 GENTLELADY FROM TEXAS, MS. JACKSON LEE, IS RECOGNIZED. 744 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,000 MS. JACKSON LEE: ACCOUNTABILITY 745 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,000 COMES BEFORE HEALING. 746 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,000 BUT HEALING SHOULD COME. 747 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 IF WE LOOK AT THE CONSTITUTION, 748 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,000 WE WILL CLEARLY SEE THAT MR. 749 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,000 RASKIN'S RESOLUTION FITS THE 750 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:19,000 LANGUAGE, AN INABILITY TO BE 751 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,000 ABLE TO DISCHARGE YOUR DUTIES, 752 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,000 TO EXERCISE THE LAWS CAREFULLY. 753 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,000 DO YOU CONSIDER THESE WORDS 754 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,000 FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE 755 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000 UNITED STATES TO 756 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,000 INSURRECTIONISTS AND TERRORISTS 757 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,000 TO WALK DOWN TO THE CAPITOL, 758 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,000 TELLS THE PRESIDENT, TELLING 759 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,000 THEM, IF YOU DON'T FIGHT LIKE 760 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,000 HELL, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE 761 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000 A COUNTRY ANYMORE. 762 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,000 AND THAT IS THE ATTACK THAT THE 763 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,000 DOMESTIC TERRORISTS MADE ON 764 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 THIS PLACE. ALL WE'RE ASKING THE VICE 765 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,000 PRESIDENT THROUGH THIS 766 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,000 RESOLUTION IS TO REFLECT ON 767 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 THAT AND TO CALL UPON THE 25TH 768 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,000 AMENDMENT TO CONVENE THE 769 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,000 CABINET, TO BEGIN THE HEALING. 770 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,000 BECAUSE, THE PRESIDENT OF THE 771 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,000 UNITED STATES IS DANGEROUS TO 772 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 773 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 THAT IS WHY WE'RE ON THE FLOOR 774 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,000 TODAY. WE HOPE THAT HE WILL HAVE AN 775 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,000 OPPORTUNITY TO REFLECT BECAUSE 776 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,000 THE CONSTITUTION SAYS IN MANY 777 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,000 PLACES THAT THE OOKS ACTIONS OF 778 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,000 THIS PRESIDENT -- THAT THE 779 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,000 ACTIONS OF THIS PRESIDENT IS 780 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,000 DANGEROUS. PEOPLE HAVE DIED. 781 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,000 WE HAVE LOST TWO POLICE 782 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,000 OFFICERS. OTHERS ARE IN THE HOSPITAL. 783 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,000 AND, YES, IT WAS AN 784 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,000 INSURRECTION. IT IS TIME TO PASS H.RES. 21. 785 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,000 I YIELD BACK. 786 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLELADY'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 787 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. 788 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,000 DO YOU RESERVE? MR. RASKIN: YES. 789 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE 790 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,000 OF HIS TIME. THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. 791 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,000 MR. JORDAN: THANK YOU, MR. 792 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,000 SPEAKER. I YIELD ONE MINUTE TO THE 793 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,000 GENTLELADY FROM GEORGIA. 794 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 795 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000 GENTLELADY FROM GEORGIA IS RECOGNIZED FOR ONE MINUTE. 796 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,000 MS. TAYLOR GREENE: MR. SPEAKER, I'D LIKE TO QUOTE THE PRESIDENT 797 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,000 OF THE UNITED STATES. 798 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,000 I KNOW THAT EVERYONE HERE WILL 799 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,000 SOON BE MARCHING OVER TO THE 800 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,000 CAPITOL BUILDING TO PEACEFULLY 801 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,000 AND PATRIOTICALLY MAKE YOUR 802 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,000 VOICES HEARD. 803 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,000 GO HOME WITH PEACE, WITH LOVE 804 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 AND IN PEACE, REMEMBER THIS DAY 805 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 FOREVER. 806 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,000 PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. 807 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000 I CONDEMN THIS VIOLENCE 808 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,000 REPUBLICANS HAVE CONDEMNED THIS 809 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,000 VIOLENCE PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS 810 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,000 CONDEMNED THIS VIOLENCE. 811 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,000 BUT ELECTED DEMOCRATS OVER THE 812 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,000 PAST YEAR HAVE PROMOTED 813 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000 VIOLENCE HAVE SUPPORTED IT, 814 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000 THEY FUND IT ON THEIR ACT BLUE 815 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,000 FUNDRAISING PLATFORM, AND THERE 816 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,000 HAS BEEN BILLIONS OF DAMAGE 817 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,000 CAUSED OVER THIS PAST YEAR, 818 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,000 RIOTS ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY. 819 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,000 YOU KNOW HOW MANY COMPANIES 820 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,000 HAVE ENDURED VIOLENCE AND 821 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,000 DESTRUCTION? 822 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,000 I HAVE 83 PAGES HERE OF 823 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,000 BUSINESSES THAT HAD PROPERTY 824 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,000 DAMAGE, WERE BURNED, THROUGH 825 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:29,000 THE MINNESOTA RIOTS. 826 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,000 OUR VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT KAMALA 827 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,000 HARRIS POSTED THE MINNESOTA 828 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,000 FREEDOM FUND BAIL LINK, 829 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO DONATE 830 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,000 MONEY TO BAIL CRIMINALS OUT OF 831 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,000 JAIL. 832 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,000 WE SHOULDN'T BE HYPOCRITES. 833 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,000 I YIELD BACK. 834 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 835 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,000 GENTLELADY'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 836 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,000 THE GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK THE 837 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,000 BALANCE OF HER TIME. THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO, DO YOU 838 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,000 RESERVE? MR. JORDAN: RESERVE. 839 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE 840 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,000 OF HIS TIME. 841 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. MR. RASKIN: MR. SPEAKER, I'M 842 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,000 HONORED TO YIELD TWO MINUTES TO 843 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,000 MR. KATKO OF NEW YORK. 844 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,000 MR. KATKO: I THANK MY COLLEAGUE 845 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,000 FOR YIELDING. 846 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:57,000 I RISE AS A PROUD AMERICAN WHO 847 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,000 HAS A DISTINCT HONOR OF SERVING 848 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000 IN THIS GREAT BODY. 849 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,000 AS A MEMBER OF CONGRESS, WE 850 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,000 TAKE AN OATH TO DEFEND THE 851 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000 CONSTITUTION. 852 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 BECAUSE AT TIMES IT NEEDS 853 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000 DEFENDING. ON JANUARY 6, THE NATION 854 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,000 WATCHED AS INSURRECTIONISTS 855 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,000 STORMED THE CAPITOL 856 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,000 THREATENING THE SAFETY OF 857 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,000 COUNTLESS INDIVIDUALS AND 858 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,000 SUCCESSFULLY ALBEIT 859 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000 TEMPORARILY, DISRUPTING OUR 860 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,000 PROCESS. IN THE MIDST OF THE ATTACK, 861 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,000 HUNDREDS OF CAPITOL POLICE 862 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,000 OFFICERS HEROICALLY UPHELD 863 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,000 THEIR DUTY TO DEFEND THE UNITED 864 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,000 STATES AND PROTECT THOSE WHO 865 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,000 WORK HERE. 866 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000 MANY OFFICERS WERE SEVERELY 867 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:29,000 INJURED AND BEATEN. 868 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,000 INCLUDING ONE OF MY FORMER 869 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,000 INTERNS. AND TRG -- TRAGICALLY, ONE 870 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,000 OFFICER, OFFICER BRIAN 871 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,000 SICKNICK, SUCCUMBED TO THE 872 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,000 INJURIES HE SUSTAINED. 873 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,000 TO OFFICER SICKNICK'S FAMILY, I 874 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,000 EXTEND MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES 875 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000 AND KNOW WE ARE PRAYING FOR 876 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,000 YOU. TO ALL CAPITOL POLICE OFFICERS 877 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,000 WE'RE DEEPLY THANKFUL FOR YOUR 878 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,000 BRAVERY. BECAUSE OF YOU THOUSANDS WERE 879 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,000 LIVES WERE PROTECTED AND THE 880 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,000 PEOPLE'S WORK WAS ABLE TO 881 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,000 RESUME. 882 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,000 NOW, JUST AS THE CAPITOL POLICE 883 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,000 PROTECTED US, CONGRESS MUST 884 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000 MATCH THAT COURAGE AND PROTECT 885 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,000 THE CONSTITUTION. 886 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,000 OUR DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES AND 887 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,000 THIS NATION. 888 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,000 THE PRESIDENT'S ROLE IN THIS 889 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,000 INSURRECTION IS UNDENIABLE. 890 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,000 BOTH ON SOCIAL MEDIA ON JANUARY 891 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,000 6 AND IN HIS SPEECH THAT DAY. 892 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,000 HE DELDEL -- DELIBERATELY 893 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,000 PROMOTED BASELESS THEORIES 894 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,000 CREATING A COMBUSTIBLE 895 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,000 ENVIRONMENT OF MISINFORMATION 896 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,000 AND DIVISION. 897 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:18,000 TO ALLOW THE PRESIDENT OF THE 898 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,000 UNITED STATES TO INCITE THIS 899 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,000 ATTACK WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES IS 900 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,000 A DIRECT THREAT TO THE FUTURE 901 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000 OF THIS DEMOCRACY. 902 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,000 FOR THIS REASON, I WILL VOTE TO 903 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,000 IMPEACH THIS PRESIDENT 904 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,000 TOMORROW. THE BILL BEFORE US TONIGHT IS A 905 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,000 NONBINDING RESOLUTION. 906 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000 WHICH REQUESTS THE VICE PRESIDENT TO INVOKE THE 25TH 907 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,000 AMENDMENT, A STEP HE'S ALREADY 908 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:36,000 SAID HE WILL NOT TAKE. 909 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,000 IT IS MERELY A SYMBOLIC 910 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,000 GESTURE. 911 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,000 AND I WILL OPPOSE THAT 912 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,000 RESOLUTION. AFTER LAST WEEK'S ATTACK ON THE 913 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,000 CAPITOL, IT IS CLEAR OUR 914 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,000 NATION'S MORE DIVIDED THAN EVER 915 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,000 IN RECENT HISTORY. 916 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,000 WE BEGAN THIS GREAT EXPERIMENT 917 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,000 OVER 240 YEARS AGO AND TO 918 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,000 PRESERVE IT WE MUST REMEMBER 919 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,000 THAT OUR FAITH, RACE OR 920 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,000 POLITICAL PARTY IS NOT WHAT 921 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,000 UNITES US. 922 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,000 WHAT UNITES US IS THAT WE ARE 923 00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,000 AMERICANS. 924 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,000 I'D ENCOURAGE MEMBERS OF THIS 925 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,000 BODY AND EVERYONE AT HOME TO 926 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:03,000 REMEMBER THAT SIMPLE TRUTH. 927 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,000 AND WITH THAT, I YIELD BACK. 928 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 929 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:07,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 930 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO, DO YOU 931 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,000 -- YOU RESERVE. 932 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,000 MR. JORDAN: NO I WILL YIELD -- 933 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:14,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 934 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND RESERVES. 935 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000 MR. JORDAN: I WILL YIELD 2 1/2 936 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:18,000 MINUTES TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM 937 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,000 NORTH CAROLINA, MR. BISHOP. 938 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 939 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,000 GENTLEMAN FROM NORTH CAROLINA, 940 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,000 MR. BISHOP, IS RECOGNIZED. 941 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,000 MR. BISHOP: THANK YOU, MR. 942 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,000 SPEAKER. I THANK THE GENTLEMAN FOR 943 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000 YIELDING. 944 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,000 TWO 945 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,000 TWO QUESTIONS AS WE BEGIN 946 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,000 ANOTHER 24 HOURS THAT WILL 947 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,000 DEEPEN THE WOUNDS OF THE COUNTRY 948 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,000 AND THE DISAFFECTION OF 949 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,000 AMERICANS. FIRST, WILL YOU STOP AT NOTHING? 950 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,000 SECOND IS THERE ANY HYPOCRISY 951 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,000 TOO FAR? 952 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000 LET'S CALL THIS WHAT IT IS. 953 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000 AN ULTIMATUM. 954 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,000 AN ATTEMPT TO INTIMIDATE AND 955 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:55,000 BULLY VICE PRESIDENT PENCE. 956 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,000 THEY'RE NOT SEEKING THE SAME 957 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,000 ENDS AS MR. MCCLINTOCK OF 958 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,000 CALIFORNIA SAID, TO EMPLOYEE THE 959 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,000 SAME MEANS. 960 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,000 THEY SPEAK TO BULLY THE VICE 961 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,000 PRESIDENT TO ABUSE POWER UNDER 962 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,000 THE 25TH AMENDMENT INTENDED TO 963 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,000 PROVIDE FOR TEMPORARY OR SUDDEN 964 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,000 INCAPACITY OF THE PRESIDENT 965 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000 WHILE THEY CLAIM TO BE 966 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,000 SCANDALIZED ABOUT THE PRESIDENT 967 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,000 BULLYING THE VICE PRESIDENT ONE 968 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,000 WEEK AGO TO ABUSE POWER UNDER 969 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000 THE 12TH AMENDMENT. 970 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,000 WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO THE 971 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND, HE HAS 972 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,000 NOT ANSWERED, WHY ARE YOU DOING 973 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,000 THIS NOW? 974 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,000 TONIGHT, THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS 975 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,000 CLARIFIED. 976 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,000 IN A LETTER SENT TO ALL OF US AT 977 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,000 7:34 P.M. THAT THIS RESOLUTION 978 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,000 HAS ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER PURPOSE. 979 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,000 HERE ARE THREE KEY THING HE IS 980 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,000 SAID. 981 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,000 I QUOTE. 982 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,000 I URGE YOU AND EVERY MEMBER OF 983 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,000 CONGRESS TO AVOID ACTIONS THAT 984 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,000 WOULD FURTHER DIVIDE AND INFLAME 985 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,000 THE PASSIONS OF THE MOMENT. 986 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,000 WORK WITH US TO LOWER THE 987 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,000 TEMPERATURE AND UNITE OUR 988 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,000 COUNTRY. 989 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,000 QUOTE, AS YOU KNOW FULL WELL, 990 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000 THE 25TH AMENDMENT WAS DESIGNED 991 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,000 TO ADDRESS PRESIDENTIAL 992 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,000 INCAPACITY OR DISABILITY. 993 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,000 UNDER OUR CONSTITUTION, THE 25TH 994 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:12,000 AMENDMENT IS NOT A MEANS OF 995 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,000 USURPATION. QUOTE, AND LISTEN TO THIS ONE 996 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,000 CAREFULLY, QUOTE, LAST WEEK, I 997 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,000 DID NOT YIELD TO PRESSURE TO 998 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000 EXERT POWER BEYOND MY 999 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,000 CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY AND I 1000 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,000 WILL NOT NOW YIELD TO EFFORTS IN 1001 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,000 THE HOUSE TO PLAY POLITICAL 1002 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,000 GAMES AT A TIME SO SERIOUS IN 1003 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:32,000 THE LIFE OF OUR NATION. 1004 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,000 THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS GIVEN YOU 1005 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,000 YOUR ANSWER BEFORE YOU ASK THE 1006 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,000 QUESTION. 1007 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,000 NO LEGITIMATE PURPOSE TO THIS 1008 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,000 RESOLUTION REMAINS. 1009 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:48,000 YOUR ULTIMATUM GOS DOWN TO A 1010 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,000 CORE FEATURE OF THE 1011 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,000 CONSTITUTION. THE FRAMERS WERE EMPHATIC TO 1012 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,000 AVOID MAKING THE PRESIDENT A 1013 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,000 CREATURE OF CONGRESS. 1014 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,000 THE 25TH AMENDMENT WAS NOT 1015 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,000 RATIFIED TO CHANGE THAT, AS YOU 1016 00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,000 WELL KNOW. 1017 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,000 PLEASE DO NOT PERVERT THIS 1018 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,000 IMPORTANT PROTECTION TO 1019 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,000 UNDERMINE THE CONSTITUTION. 1020 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,000 I YIELD BACK. 1021 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: MEMBERS 1022 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,000 ARE REMINED TO DIRECT THEIR 1023 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,000 COMMENTS TO THE CHAIR. 1024 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. 1025 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,000 MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE 1026 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,000 TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM TENNESSEE. 1027 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1028 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. 1029 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000 >> LAST WEDNESDAY I CAME TO 1030 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,000 THESE HALLLOWED HALLS WHERE I 1031 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000 SERVE TO WATCH THE ELECTORAL 1032 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000 COLLEGE RATIFY AND CERTIFY THE 1033 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,000 ELECTION OF JOE BIDEN IN WHAT 1034 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,000 WAS FAIR, TRANSPARENT, ELECTION 1035 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,000 THAT 61 COURTS LOOKED INTO AND 1036 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,000 ALL SAID IT WAS FINE. 1037 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,000 MR. COHEN: I WAS SITTING UP 1038 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,000 THERE IN THE GALLERY WHEN A 1039 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000 CAPITOL POLICEMAN CAME IN AND 1040 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,000 SAID WE'RE LOCKING THE DOOR. 1041 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,000 WE ARE LOCKING THE DOORS. 1042 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,000 AND WITH ONLY MINUTES OF THAT, I 1043 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,000 HEARD THE RATTLE TISSUE THE 1044 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,000 RABBLE KNOCKING ON THE DOOR 1045 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,000 TRYING TO KNOCK IT DOWN. 1046 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,000 WE WERE THEN TOLD TO PUT ON OUR 1047 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,000 GAS MASKS AND EVACUATE AND WE 1048 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,000 ALL DID IT. 1049 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,000 THIS WAS AN ASSAULT ON THE 1050 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,000 CONSTITUTION, AN ASSAULT ON 1051 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,000 CONGRESS. 1052 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000 IT WAS A FELONIOUS ASSAULT. 1053 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,000 IT WAS AN ATTEMPT TO MURDER THE 1054 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,000 CONGRESS AND OUR PROCESSES TO 1055 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,000 ELECT OUR PRESIDENT OF THE 1056 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,000 UNITED STATES. 1057 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,000 IT IS THE POLITICAL EQUIVALENT 1058 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,000 OF SHOOTING SOMEBODY ON 5TH 1059 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,000 AVENUE AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT 1060 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,000 AND SOMEBODY NEEDS TO STAND UP 1061 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,000 TO THAT AND THE 25TH AMENDMENT 1062 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,000 IS ONE WAY TO DO IT WHETHER 1063 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,000 REPUBLICANS CAN PURGE THEMSELVES 1064 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,000 OF THEIR OWN CREATION WHO HAS 1065 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,000 DAMAGED THIS COUNTRY. 1066 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000 I ASK US TO PASS THIS 1067 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,000 RESOLUTION. BRING THIS COUNTRY TOGETHER AN 1068 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,000 GET RID OF THIS CANCER. 1069 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,000 I YIELD BACK. 1070 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN YEALEDS BACK. 1071 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000 DOES THE GENTLEMAN RESERVE? 1072 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. 1073 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,000 MR. YORDAN: THANK YOU, MR. 1074 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:39,000 SPEAKER. I YIELD ONE MINUTE TO THE 1075 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,000 GENTLEMAN FROM WISCONSIN. 1076 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1077 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. 1078 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,000 >> THANK YOU. 1079 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,000 THIS IS AN ABSURD RESOLUTION, 1080 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,000 CALLOUSLY POLITICIZING AN 1081 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:52,000 UNPREDICTABLE HAPPENING LAST 1082 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,000 WEEK. WE ALL KNOW PRESIDENT TRUMP 1083 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,000 CALLED FOR A PEACEFUL, PATRIOTIC 1084 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,000 MARCH. I HAVE ATTENDED MULTIPLE TRUMP 1085 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,000 RALLY, ALWAYS PEACEFUL EVENTS, 1086 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,000 TIPICAL OF THOUSANDS OF THE 1087 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,000 PROTESTERS LAST WEEK. 1088 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,000 I NEVER WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THIS 1089 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,000 IN A MILLION YEARS. 1090 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,000 THAT IS A HORRIBLE EVENT BUT NOT 1091 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,000 LIKE THE BLACK LIVES MATTER OR 1092 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,000 ANTIFA EVENTS THAT WENT ON DAY 1093 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,000 AFTER DAY IN CITY AFTER CITY 1094 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,000 WITH PROMINENT DEMOCRATS FANNING 1095 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,000 THE FLAMES BY MISCHARACTERIZING 1096 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,000 POLICE SHOOTINGS OR ENCOURAGING 1097 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,000 BAIL FOR LAWBREAKERS. 1098 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,000 LESS THAN TWO YEAR AGO A MEMBER 1099 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,000 OF THIS BODY ENCOURAGED HARASS. 1100 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,000 OF TRUMP OFFICERS AT 1101 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,000 RESTAURANTS, GAS STATIONS AND 1102 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,000 DEPARTMENT STORES. SHE WAS REWARDED WITH THE 1103 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,000 CHAIRMANSHIP OF A COMMITTEE. 1104 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,000 EVEN LAST WEEK'S RIOTS THE 1105 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,000 SPEAKER TRIED TO PREPOSTEROUSLY 1106 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,000 RACIALIZE THEM WHICH CAN ONLY 1107 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,000 LEAD TO TROUBLE, MAYBE VIOLENCE. 1108 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,000 EVERYBODY BACK HOME SAYS WE 1109 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,000 OUGHT TO GET ALONG. 1110 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,000 IS THIS THE WAY TO START THINGS? 1111 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,000 IT'S TIME TO GET BACK TO DEALING 1112 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,000 WITH THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS 1113 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,000 DEALING WITH THE CANCEL CULTURE. 1114 00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,000 THANK YOU. 1115 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1116 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK. THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES. 1117 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. 1118 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,000 MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE 1119 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,000 TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM GEORGIA, 1120 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,000 MR. JOHNSON. 1121 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1122 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR ONE MINUTE. 1123 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,000 MR. SWRNS: THANK YOU, MR. 1124 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:15,000 SPEAKER. 1125 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,000 FOR 244 YEARS, AMERICA HAS STOOD 1126 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:22,000 AS THE BELLWETHER OF DEMOCRACY. 1127 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,000 LAST WEEK, THE WORLD SAW AMERICA 1128 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,000 AT PERHAPS HER LOWEST MOMENT. 1129 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:27,000 IT WAS CRAZY. 1130 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,000 WE ALL TOOK THE SAME OATH WHEN 1131 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,000 WE SWORE TO PROTECT THIS COUNTRY 1132 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,000 FROM ENEMIES BOTH FOREIGN AND 1133 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,000 DOMESTIC. 1134 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,000 AND NOW WITH A DOMESTIC ENEMY 1135 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:44,000 HAVING ARISEN, THAT IS CRAZY, 1136 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,000 ONLY THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS THE 1137 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000 POWER TO INVOKE THE 25TH 1138 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,000 AMENDMENT AND PROTECT THIS 1139 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,000 COUNTRY FROM THIS DOMESTIC 1140 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,000 ENEMY. 1141 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,000 THE 25TH AMENDMENT WAS WRITTEN 1142 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,000 FOR THIS MOMENT. 1143 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,000 AND IF NOT NOW WHEN WOULD ITS 1144 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,000 USE EVER BE APPROPRIATE? 1145 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,000 VICE PRESIDENT PENCE YOU HAVE 1146 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,000 AN OPPORTUNITY TO PUT COUNTRY 1147 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,000 BEFORE SELF BY IMPLEMENTING THE 1148 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,000 25TH AMENDMENT. 1149 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,000 PLEASE MUSTER THE COURAGE TO 1150 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,000 PROTECT AMERICA FROM MANIACAL 1151 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,000 BEHAVIOR THAT THREATENS THE VERY 1152 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,000 FOUNDATIONS OF OUR DEMOCRACY. 1153 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,000 STOP THE VIOLENCE, MR. VICE 1154 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,000 PRESIDENT. 1155 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,000 WITH THAT, I YIELD BACK. 1156 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1157 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK. 1158 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,000 THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES. 1159 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. 1160 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,000 MR. JORDAN: I YIELD TWO MINUTES 1161 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,000 TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO, MR. 1162 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,000 CHABOT. 1163 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. 1164 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,000 MR. CHABOT: WHAT HAPPENED LAST 1165 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,000 WEEK WEDNESDAY AT THE CAPITOL 1166 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,000 NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED. 1167 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,000 THE ACTIONS OF THOSE WHO 1168 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,000 ATTEMPTED TO BREACH THE CAPITOL 1169 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,000 BUILDING AND THEN ULTIMATELY DID 1170 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,000 ARE INEXCUSABLE. 1171 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,000 LAWLESSNESS AND VIOLENCE ARE 1172 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,000 NEVER ACCEPTABLE, WHICHEVER SIDE 1173 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,000 OF THE POLITICAL DIVIDE ONE MAY 1174 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,000 FALL ON. 1175 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,000 THOSE WHO BROKE THE LAW SHOULD 1176 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,000 BE AND WILL BE IDENTIFIED AND 1177 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,000 PROSECUTED. IN THE AFTERMATH OF LAST WEEK'S 1178 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,000 TRAGIC EVENTS, MOST AMERICANS 1179 00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,000 CONTINUE TO BE SADDENED, ANGRY, 1180 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,000 AND WANTING ANSWERS. 1181 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,000 AND THEY ARE LOOKING TO US TO 1182 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,000 PROVIDE A POSITIVE EXAMPLE ON 1183 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,000 THOUSAND TO BRING OUR NATION 1184 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,000 BACK TOGETHER. 1185 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,000 UNFORTUNATELY, IF WHAT WE'RE 1186 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,000 DOING THIS EVENING IS ANY 1187 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,000 INDICATION, CONGRESS MIGHT NOT 1188 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,000 BE UP TO THE TASK. 1189 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,000 THE DEMOCRATS' ATTEMPT TO INVOKE 1190 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,000 THE 25TH AMENDMENT AND TO ONCE 1191 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,000 AGAIN IMPEACH PRESIDENT TRUMP A 1192 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:21,000 WEEK BEFORE HE'LL BE LEAVING 1193 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,000 OFFICE ANYWAY ARE IN MY OPINION 1194 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,000 MISGUIDED. 1195 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,000 THE PUSH TO ENCOURAGE THE VICE 1196 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000 PRESIDENT TO INVOKE THE 25TH 1197 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,000 AMENDMENT IS ESPECIALLY 1198 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,000 ILL-ADVISED. 1199 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,000 THE CONSTITUTION IS CLEAR THAT 1200 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,000 THE ROLE FOR CONGRESS TO PLAY 1201 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,000 UNDER THE 25TH AMENDMENT IS TO 1202 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,000 THE SIDE IF THE POWERS PROVIDED 1203 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,000 THERE UNDER HAVE BEEN PROPERLY 1204 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,000 INVOKED IN THE EVENT OF A 1205 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,000 DISPUTE BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT 1206 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,000 AND VICE PRESIDENT OR THE 1207 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,000 MAJORITY OF THE CABINET. 1208 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,000 IN OTHER WORDS, WE ARE TO SERVE 1209 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,000 AS JUDGES UNDER THE 25TH 1210 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,000 AMENDMENT, NOT INSTIGATORS. 1211 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,000 BY ENCOURAGING THE VICE 1212 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,000 PRESIDENT TO TAKE ACTION, 1213 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,000 SUPPORTERS OF THIS RESOLUTION 1214 00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,000 ARE ABANDONING OUR 1215 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,000 CONSTITUTIONAL ROLE WHICH COULD 1216 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,000 HAVE A SIGNIFICANT LEGAL 1217 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000 CONSEQUENCE DOWN THE ROAD. 1218 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,000 EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY RATHER 1219 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,000 THAN HELP TO HEAL A DIVIDED 1220 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,000 NATION THE DEMOCRATS' EFFORTS 1221 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,000 WILL LIKELY DRIVE US EVEN 1222 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,000 FURTHER APART. 1223 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,000 INSTEAD, MR. SPEAKER, WE SHOULD 1224 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,000 BE TURNING OUR ATTENTION TOWARD 1225 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,000 UNITING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 1226 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,000 IT'S TIME FOR US TO TONE DOWN 1227 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,000 THE POLITICAL RHETORIC, TO WORK 1228 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,000 TOGETHER, TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS 1229 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,000 THAT FACE OUR NATION. 1230 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,000 IT'S TIME FOR US TO PUT ASIDE 1231 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,000 OUR DIFFERENCES AND FIND COMMON 1232 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,000 GROUND. 1233 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,000 AFTER ALL, WE'RE ALL AMERICANS. 1234 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,000 I YIELD BACK. 1235 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1236 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,000 GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO RESERVES. 1237 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,000 MR. RASKIN. 1238 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,000 MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE 1239 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,000 TO MR. SWALWELL OF CALIFORNIA. 1240 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1241 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED HOW 1242 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,000 MUCH TIME? ONE MINUTE. 1243 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,000 MR. SWALWELL: ON JANUARY 6, 1244 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:55,000 DONALD TRUMP INCITED RADICALIZED 1245 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,000 TERRORISTS TO ATTACK THE CAPITOL 1246 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,000 AND STOP THE COUNTING OF THE 1247 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,000 ELECTORAL BALLOTS. 1248 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,000 DONALD TRUMP WON'T PROTECT OUR 1249 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,000 CONSTITUTION SO WE MUST DO SO. 1250 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,000 IT'S TIME FOR THE COUNTRY TO 1251 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,000 UNITE BUT UNITY STARTS WITH 1252 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,000 ACCOUNTABILITY THAT STARTS IN 1253 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,000 THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE. 1254 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:19,000 LET'S START BY UNITING FOR THE 1255 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:20,000 SAFETY OF ALL AMERICANS. 1256 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,000 LET'S UNITE AGAINST A PRESIDENT 1257 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,000 WHOSE HATE SPEECH LED TO THE 1258 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,000 DEFENSE OF A LAW ENFORCEMENT 1259 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,000 OFFICER UNITE FOR THE COPS AND 1260 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,000 MILITARY WHO BRAVELY DEFENDED 1261 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,000 THE CAPITOL. 1262 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,000 LET'S UNITE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP 1263 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:38,000 WHO CONDITION SPIRE -- TERRORIST 1264 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,000 TEOSCARRY A CONFEDERATE FLAG 1265 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,000 INTO THIS FLAG AND DISPLAY A 1266 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,000 NOOSE, AND LET'S UNITE FOR THE 1267 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,000 JANITORIAL STAFF WHO CLEANED UP 1268 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,000 AFTER THESE WHITE SUPREMACISTS. 1269 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,000 THE MOST ESSENTIAL FUNCTION OF 1270 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,000 THE PRESIDENT IS TO PROTECT LIVE 1271 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000 AND DEFEND LIBERTY. 1272 00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,000 DONALD TRUMP HAS FAILED TO DO 1273 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,000 THAT AND IS FAILING TO DO THAT 1274 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,000 SO VICE PRESIDENT PENCE MUST 1275 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,000 INVOKE THE 25TH AMENDMENT. 1276 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1277 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:09,000 GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. 1278 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:10,000 MR. YORDAN: MAY I INQUIRE HOW 1279 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,000 MUCH TIME EACH SIDE HAS. 1280 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO HAS 16 1/2 1281 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:19,000 MINUTES REMAINING. 1282 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND HAS 1283 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,000 16 3/4 MINUTES REMAINING. 1284 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. 1285 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,000 MR. JORDAN: I YIELD THREE 1286 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,000 MINUTES TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM 1287 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,000 FLORIDA. 1288 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1289 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. >> I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T 1290 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,000 ADDRESS THE ATROCITIES OCCURRING 1291 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,000 HERE ON THE HOUSE FLOOR. 1292 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,000 A WEEK AGO THE BILLING WAS 1293 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,000 ATTACKED AND INSTEAD OF WORKING 1294 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,000 WITH REPUBLICANS TO KEEP THAT 1295 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,000 FROM HAPPENING AGAIN, THE 1296 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,000 SPEAKER AND HER COLLEAGUES THINK 1297 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:47,000 THE APPROPRIATE RESPONSE IS TO 1298 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,000 PREVENT PEOPLE EXERCISING THEIR 1299 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,000 SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS. 1300 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,000 THIS ATTACK DIDN'T COME FROM THE 1301 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,000 INSIDE IT CAME FROM THE OUTSIDE. 1302 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,000 TO RESPOND BY RESTRICTING 1303 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,000 MEMBER'S SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS 1304 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,000 IN THE INSTITUTION THAT'S 1305 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,000 SUPPOSED TO UPHOLD THOSE RIGHTS 1306 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,000 IS APPALLING. TAKE NOTE, AMERICA. 1307 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,000 THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO LOOK 1308 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,000 FORWARD TO IN A JOE BIDEN 1309 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:05,000 ADMINISTRATION. 1310 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,000 IF THEY CAN DO IT RIGHT HERE IN 1311 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,000 THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE THEY WILL 1312 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,000 ATTEMPT TO DO IT ACROSS THE 1313 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,000 COUNTRY. THE PLAIN LANGUAGE OF THE 25TH 1314 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,000 AMENDMENT IS ABUNDANTLY CLEAR 1315 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,000 AND ALTHOUGH I AM AN ATTORNEY 1316 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,000 YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN ATTORNEY 1317 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,000 TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE VICE 1318 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,000 PRESIDENT IS THE PRINCIPAL 1319 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,000 REQUIRED TO INVOKE THE 1320 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,000 AMENDMENT. THE BEGINNING OF SECTION 4 1321 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:27,000 STATES, WHENEVER THE V.P. AND A 1322 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:32,000 MAJORITY OF EITHER EXECUTIVE 1323 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,000 BODY. YOU MUST HAVE THE VICE PRESIDENT 1324 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,000 INVOKING THIS AND YOU DON'T. 1325 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,000 THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN 1326 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,000 LEER. HE IS UNWILLING TO INVOKE THE 1327 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,000 25TH AMENDMENT. 1328 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,000 IT'S NOT CONGRESS' ROLE TO 1329 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,000 OVERRIDE HIM. 1330 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,000 IT DOESN'T SAY THAT CONGRESS 1331 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,000 MAKES THAT DETERMINATION. 1332 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,000 THE VICE PRESIDENT DOES. 1333 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,000 BUT MY DEMOCRAT IG COLLEAGUES 1334 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:48,000 WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO REMOVE 1335 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,000 THIS PRESIDENT EVEN A WEEK 1336 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,000 BEFORE HIS TERM EXPIRES. 1337 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,000 THE PLAIN READING OF THE 25TH 1338 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,000 AMENDMENT DEMN STRAITS THIS IS 1339 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,000 THE WRONG APPROACH. 1340 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,000 AN UNDERSTANDING OF LAST WEEK'S 1341 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,000 EVENTS DEMN STRAIT THIS IS A 1342 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,000 WRONG APPROACH. 1343 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,000 AND A LOOK AT THE TACTICS WE 1344 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,000 HAVE SEEN TELL US THIS IS A 1345 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,000 DISINGENUOUS APPROACH AT BEST 1346 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,000 AND POLITICALLY MOTED. 1347 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,000 I WAS ELECTED IN 2018 MY ENTIRE 1348 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,000 CONGRESSIONAL CAREER HAS BEEN 1349 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000 CONSUMED BY IMPEACHING OR 1350 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:17,000 REMOVING PRESIDENT TRUMP. 1351 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,000 AFTER THE RUSSIA COLLUSION HOAX 1352 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,000 AND A PHONE CALL WITH THE 1353 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,000 UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT AND A FAILED 1354 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,000 IMPEACHMENT ATTEMPT THAT 1355 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:26,000 RESULTED IN ACQUITTAL HERE WE 1356 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,000 ARE, A LITTLE MORE THAN A WEEK 1357 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,000 AWAY FROM A NEW PRESIDENT BEING 1358 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,000 SWORN IN ATTEMPTING TO TRAVESTY 1359 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,000 TO THE CONSTITUTION AND TO 1360 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000 AMERICA AS A WHOLE. 1361 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,000 THIS IS DANGEROUS, 1362 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,000 UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND DOES 1363 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,000 NOTHING TO HEAL THIS COUNTRY. 1364 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:42,000 AND MOVE THIS COUNTRY FORWARD. 1365 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1366 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,000 GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO RESERVES. 1367 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. 1368 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,000 MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE 1369 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:50,000 TO REPRESENTATIVE GARCIA OF 1370 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:51,000 TEXAS. 1371 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:52,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1372 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,000 GENTLELADY IS RECOGNIZED FOR ONE 1373 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,000 MINUTE. MS. GARCIA: THANK YOU, MR. 1374 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,000 SPEAKER. I STAND BEFORE THE HOUSE FLOOR 1375 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,000 TODAY ALARMED. 1376 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,000 ALARMED THAT JUST DAYS AGO, A 1377 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,000 SITTING PRESIDENT STIRRED UP A 1378 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,000 DEADLY ATTACK ON OUR U.S. 1379 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:05,000 CAPITOL. 1380 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,000 I JOIN MY COLLEAGUES IN CALLING 1381 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,000 ON VICE PRESIDENT PENCE TO 1382 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,000 ACTIVATE SECTION 4 OF THE 25TH 1383 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,000 AMENDMENT. 1384 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,000 IT HAS BECOME ABUNDANTLY CLEAR 1385 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:16,000 THAT THIS PRESIDENT HAS 1386 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,000 THREATENED OUR DEMOCRATIC 1387 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,000 SYSTEM, HAS INTERFERED WITH THE 1388 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,000 PEACEFUL TRANSITION OF POWER AND 1389 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,000 IS -- AND HAS ENDANGERED AN 1390 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:26,000 EQUAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT. 1391 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,000 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 1392 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,000 STATES IS UNHINGED, UNFIT, AND 1393 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,000 UNSTABLE. 1394 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,000 OR AS WE SAY IN MY DISTRICT 1395 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,000 [SPEAKING SPANISH] . 1396 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,000 TO THE POINT WHERE HE'S WILLING 1397 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,000 TO TEAR OUR DEMOCRACY DOWN, 1398 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,000 UNLESS HE PREPRE-VAILS IN HIS 1399 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,000 QUEST TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION 1400 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,000 THAT HE CLEARLY LOST. 1401 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,000 THE ACTIONS TAKEN BY THIS 1402 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,000 PRESIDENT AND THOSE WHO ENABLE 1403 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,000 HIM SHOW THAT HE IS UNFIT TO 1404 00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,000 UPHOLD THE DUTIES OF HIS OFFICE. 1405 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,000 FOR THE SAKE OF OUR NATION'S 1406 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,000 SECURITY THIS PRESIDENT MUST BE 1407 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,000 SWIFTLY REMOVED. 1408 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,000 MR. SPEAKER, DEMOCRACY IS A GIFT 1409 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,000 ONE GENERATION GIVES TO THE 1410 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,000 NEXT. WE MUST DEFEND IT. 1411 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,000 THANK YOU AND I YIELD BACK. 1412 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:13,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1413 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,000 GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK. 1414 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM HI. 1415 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,000 MR. JORDAN: I YIELD A MINUTE AND 1416 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,000 A HALF TO THE GENTLELADY FROM 1417 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:21,000 COLORADO, MRS. BOEBERT. 1418 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLELADY IS RECOGNIZED FOR ONE 1419 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,000 AND A HALF MINUTES. 1420 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:26,000 MRS. BOEBERT: I RISE TODAY TO 1421 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,000 OPPOSE YET ANOTHER DEMOCRAT 1422 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000 WITCH HUNT. 1423 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:30,000 WE SHOULD TAKE DEMOCRATS AT 1424 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,000 THEIR WORD WHEN THEY SAY NEVER 1425 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,000 LET A GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE. 1426 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,000 SECTION 4 OF THE 25TH AMENDMENT 1427 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:41,000 HAS NEVER BEEN USED, A PLAIN 1428 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,000 READING OF THE TEXT COUPLED WITH 1429 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,000 THE CONTEXT OF ITS RATIFICATION 1430 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,000 CONTEMPLATES A VERY DIFFERENT 1431 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,000 SCENARIO FROM THE ONE WE'RE 1432 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,000 CURRENTLY. IN IT ENVISIONS A PRESIDENT'S 1433 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,000 DISABILITY RESULTING IN SERIOUS 1434 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:53,000 ILLNESS TO INJURY. 1435 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,000 TO SUGGEST IT SHOULD BE USED IN 1436 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,000 A DIFFERENT CONTEXT VIOLATES THE 1437 00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:58,000 VERY INTENT OF THE 25TH 1438 00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,000 AMENDMENT. 1439 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:03,000 TO BE CLEAR THIS RESOLUTION IS 1440 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,000 A DIVISIVE, POLITICAL STUNT 1441 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,000 WHICH HAS -- WHICH WOULD HAVE NO 1442 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,000 FORCE OF LAW AND IS A WASTE OF 1443 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,000 OUR TIME. 1444 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:14,000 MR. SPEAKER, THIS RESOLUTION IS 1445 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,000 A CLEAR OVERREACH OF INVOKE -- 1446 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,000 AS INVOKING 25TH AMENDMENT IS 1447 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,000 NOT SOMETHING CONGRESS CAN 1448 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,000 INITIATE. IT MUST BE INITIATED BY THE 1449 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:24,000 EXECUTIVE BRANCH. 1450 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,000 DEMOCRATS TALK ABOUT UNITY BUT 1451 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:27,000 CLEARLY THAT'S JUST TALK AS 1452 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,000 THEIR ACTIONS ONLY FURTHER 1453 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,000 DIVIDE US. 1454 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:31,000 THEIR HYPOCRISY IS ON FULL 1455 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,000 DISPLAY THIS WEEK. 1456 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,000 WITH THE 25TH AMENDMENT STUNT, 1457 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,000 ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT,SEN SURE 1458 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,000 BILLS AND OTHER EFFORTS TO TRY 1459 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,000 TO PUNISH REPUBLICANS FOR FALSE 1460 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:42,000 ACCUSATIONS OF INCITING THE TYPE 1461 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,000 OF VIOLENCE THEY HAVE STOKED 1462 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,000 FREQUENTLY AND TRANSPARENTLY 1463 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:48,000 SUPPORTED IN THE PAST, 1464 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,000 THROUGHOUT 2020 WE WITNESSED 1465 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:54,000 DEMOCRATS WELCOME, ENCOURAGE AND 1466 00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:59,000 EVEN NORMALIZE VIOLENCE. FOR THEM, 1467 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,000 VIOLENCE RIOTS WERE EFFECTIVE 1468 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:04,000 IN ADVANCING THEIR AGENDA. 1469 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:05,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1470 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:06,000 GENTLELADY'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 1471 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:07,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO 1472 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:08,000 RESERVES. 1473 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:09,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. 1474 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,000 MR. JORDAN: YEAH, WE RESERVE. 1475 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:12,000 MR. RASKIN: MR. SPEAKER, THE 1476 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,000 GENTLELADY WHOM I'VE NOT HAD 1477 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,000 THE MEASURE TO MEET YET, 1478 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,000 CONFUSES THE TWO THINGS. 1479 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:20,000 FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT HAD A 1480 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,000 DISABILITY. 1481 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,000 HE WAS ONE OF OUR GREATEST 1482 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,000 PRESIDENTS. 1483 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:24,000 PRESIDENT LINCOLN SUFFERED FROM 1484 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,000 DEPRESSION BUT HE WAS ONE OF 1485 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,000 OUR GREATEST PRESIDENT IS -- 1486 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,000 PRESIDENTS. 1487 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:30,000 INCAPACITY IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 1488 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,000 IT'S DEMONSTRATED BY PRESIDENT 1489 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,000 TRUMP'S COMPLETE TOTAL 1490 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,000 INABILITY TO CONFORM HIS 1491 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:36,000 CONDUCT TO THE RULE OF LAW AND 1492 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:37,000 THE CONSTITUTION. 1493 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:38,000 I YIELD ONE MINUTE TO 1494 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,000 REPRESENTATIVE MCBATH. 1495 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1496 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:42,000 GENTLELADY FROM GEORGIA IS 1497 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,000 RECOGNIZED FOR ONE MINUTE. MRS. MCBATH: THANK YOU, MR. 1498 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,000 SPEAKER. I CAME TO CONGRESS TO MAKE SURE 1499 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,000 THAT NO PARENT EVER EXPERIENCED 1500 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,000 THE PAIN THAT I HAVE. 1501 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:54,000 I CAME TO CONGRESS TO FIGHT FOR 1502 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,000 CHILDREN WHO PRACTICE ACTIVE 1503 00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,000 SHOOTER DRILLS AT THE SAME TIME 1504 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:00,000 THEY'RE LEARNING HOW TO READ. 1505 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,000 FOR FAMILIES WHO HAVE LOST 1506 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,000 LOVED ONES TO GUN VIOLENCE. 1507 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,000 AND FOR COMMUNITIES THAT WILL 1508 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,000 NEVER, EVER BE THE SAME. 1509 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:11,000 LAST WEDNESDAY MEMBERS OF THIS 1510 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,000 BODY HID FROM INSURRECTIONISTS 1511 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,000 BEHIND BARRICADES AND LOCKED 1512 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,000 DOORS. 1513 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:18,000 STAFFERS OF THIS HALLOWED 1514 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,000 INSTITUTION TEXTED TO THEIR 1515 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:23,000 LOVED ONES, THEY'RE BANGING ON 1516 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,000 THE DOORS OUTSIDE, I LOVE YOU. 1517 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,000 AND CITIZENS OF THIS NATION 1518 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,000 WATCHED IN REAL-TIME AS RIOTERS 1519 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:32,000 STORMED THE CAPITOL THROUGH 1520 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,000 SHATTERED WINDOWS AND BROKEN 1521 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:35,000 GLASS. 1522 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,000 THE RESULT OF THE PRESIDENT'S 1523 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,000 RHETORIC HAS LEFT FIVE 1524 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,000 AMERICANS DEAD. 1525 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,000 OUR RESPONSE TO ANYONE WHO 1526 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,000 SEEKS TO OVERTHROW THE WILL OF 1527 00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,000 THE PEOPLE MUST BE UNWAVERING 1528 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,000 AND RESOLUTE. 1529 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,000 I DIDN'T COME TO CONGRESS TO DO 1530 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,000 THIS. BUT PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ACTIONS 1531 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:57,000 WARRANT HIS IMMEDIATE REMOVAL 1532 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:58,000 FROM OFFICE. 1533 00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:59,000 AND I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF 1534 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:00,000 MY TIME. 1535 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:01,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1536 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,000 GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HER TIME. 1537 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:03,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND RESERVES. 1538 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:04,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. MR. JORDAN: I YIELD A MINUTE 1539 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,000 AND A HALF TO THE GENTLEMAN 1540 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:06,000 FROM TEXAS, MR. FALLON. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1541 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,000 GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS IS 1542 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,000 RECOGNIZED FOR 1 1/2 MINUTES. 1543 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:09,000 MR. FALLON: THANK YOU, MR. 1544 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:10,000 SPEAKER. 1545 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,000 I RISE TODAY AGAINST -- TO SPEAK AGAINST THIS RESOLUTION. 1546 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:13,000 I'M AT A LOSS. 1547 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,000 I CAN'T BELIEVE THE VERY FIRST 1548 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,000 TIME THAT I HAVE THE HONOR AND 1549 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,000 PRIVILEGE TO ADDRESS THIS 1550 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,000 AUGUST CHAMBER IS TO TALK ABOUT 1551 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,000 REMOVING THE PRESIDENT OF THE 1552 00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,000 UNITED STATES BECAUSE HE HELD A 1553 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,000 PERMITTED LEGAL AND PEACEFUL 1554 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,000 RALLY. IT'S NOTHING BUT A WASTEFUL 1555 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,000 POLITICAL GRANDSTAND. 1556 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:34,000 LET'S MAKE NO MISTAKE. 1557 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,000 JANUARY 6 WAS A DARK DAY IN OUR 1558 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:38,000 ESTEEMED NATION'S HISTORY. 1559 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,000 IT WAS A DARK AND SAD DAY. 1560 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,000 ON THE AFTERNOON OF JANUARY 6, 1561 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,000 A MOB BREACHED OUR SING A RED 1562 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,000 CAPITOL -- OUR SACRED CAPITOL. 1563 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,000 DONALD TRUMP DID DIDN'T -- 1564 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:52,000 DONALD TRUMP DIDN'T. 1565 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,000 A MOB RAN AMOK ON THESE GROUNDS 1566 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:56,000 BUT DONALD TRUMP DIDN'T. 1567 00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,000 A MOB COMMITTED DESPICABLE AND 1568 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:00,000 EVIL ACTS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST 1569 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:01,000 FELLOW AMERICANS. 1570 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:02,000 BUT DONALD TRUMP DIDN'T. 1571 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,000 IN FACT, DONALD TRUMP URGED, IN 1572 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,000 FACT HE DEMANDED PEACEFUL 1573 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:07,000 DISSENT AND NOTHING MORE. 1574 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:08,000 OUR COLLEAGUES ON THE OTHER 1575 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,000 SIDE OF THE AISLE WANT US TO 1576 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:12,000 UNNECESSARILY REMOVE A 1577 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:13,000 PRESIDENT WHEN WE'RE MEASURING 1578 00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:14,000 THE TIME HE HAS LEFT. 1579 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,000 NOT IN YEARS, MONTHS, WEEKS OR 1580 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,000 DAYS. HE'S GOT 182 HOURS LEFT IN 1581 00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,000 OFFICE. YOU DON'T ACHIEVE UNITY BY 1582 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:23,000 SIMPLY SAYING IT. 1583 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,000 YOU ACHIEVE UNITY THROUGH 1584 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:26,000 ACTIONS. 1585 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,000 THIS RESOLUTION ACCOMPLISHES 1586 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,000 NOT UNITY, BUT RATHER IS A 1587 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,000 WASTE OF TIME AND FOSTERS 1588 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,000 FURTHER DIVISIVENESS. 1589 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,000 AND I'M GOING TO VOTE NO ON 1590 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:36,000 THIS RESOLUTION. 1591 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:37,000 I YIELD BACK. 1592 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1593 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:39,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1594 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:40,000 THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE 1595 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:41,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. 1596 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:42,000 MR. RASKIN: I YIELD TO 1597 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:43,000 REPRESENTATIVE NEGUSE FOR ONE 1598 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,000 MINUTE. 1599 00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:45,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN FROM COLORADO IS 1600 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:46,000 RECOGNIZED FOR ONE MINUTE. 1601 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:47,000 MR. NEGUSE: MR. SPEAKER, I HAD 1602 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,000 PLANNED REMARKS HERE BUT I HAVE 1603 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:53,000 TO RESPOND TO MY COLLEAGUE, HIS 1604 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:54,000 WORDS ARE SIMPLE TOO MUCH TO 1605 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:55,000 BEAR. 1606 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:56,000 HE TALKS A LOT ABOUT THE MOB 1607 00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,000 AND CULPABILITY. 1608 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,000 WHO SUMMONED THE MOB? 1609 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,000 WHO ENCOURAGED THE MOB? 1610 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,000 WHO INCITED THE MOB? 1611 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,000 YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I DO THAT 1612 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:11,000 THE PRESIDENT DID. 1613 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,000 I STOOD HERE SIX DAYS AGO IN 1614 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,000 THIS EXACT SAME SPOT AND I 1615 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,000 QUOTED LINCOLN'S ADMONITION 1616 00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:20,000 THAT WE SHOULD NOBLY SAVE OR 1617 00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,000 MEANLY LOSE THE LAST BEST HOPE 1618 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,000 OF EARTH. 1619 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:24,000 AND LESS THAN 10 MINUTES LATER, 1620 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,000 A VIOLENT MOB BREACHED THE 1621 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:27,000 CAPITOL, THE FIRST BREACH OF 1622 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,000 THIS HALLOWED BUILDING, THE 1623 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,000 CITADEL OF LIBERTY SINCE THE 1624 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:33,000 WAR OF 1812. 1625 00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:36,000 THE CONGRESS MUST RESPOND. 1626 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,000 OUR UNDERTAKING HERE IS NOT 1627 00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:39,000 ABOUT POLITICS. 1628 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,000 IT IS A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE. 1629 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,000 I SUPPORT THE DISTINGUISHED 1630 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND'S 1631 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,000 RESOLUTION. 1632 00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,000 I PRAY THAT THE VICE PRESIDENT 1633 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,000 WILL HONOR HIS OATH, 1634 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:53,000 RECONSIDER, AND INVOKE THE 1635 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,000 PROVISIONS OF THE 25TH 1636 00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,000 AMENDMENT. I YIELD BACK. 1637 00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:58,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 1638 00:49:58,000 --> 00:49:59,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1639 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:00,000 THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1640 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:01,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. MR. JORDAN: I YIELD THREE 1641 00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,000 MINUTES TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM 1642 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:03,000 FLORIDA, MR. GAETZ. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1643 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:04,000 GENTLEMAN FROM FLORIDA, MR. 1644 00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:05,000 GAETZ, IS RECOGNIZED FOR THREE 1645 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:06,000 MINUTES. MR. GAETZ: THANK YOU, MR. 1646 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,000 SPEAKER. THEY MAY BE CALLING ON THE VICE 1647 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:09,000 PRESIDENT, BUT BASED ON HIS 1648 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,000 LETTER HE'S NOT ANSWERING. 1649 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:13,000 EVERYBODY IN THIS COUNTRY KNOWS 1650 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,000 THAT THEY WANT TO DO -- WANTED 1651 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:16,000 TO IMPEOPLE PRESIDENT TRUMP ON 1652 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:17,000 HIS FIRST DAY -- IMPEACH 1653 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:18,000 PRESIDENT TRUMP ON HIS FIRST 1654 00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,000 DAY IN OFFICE. 1655 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,000 ALL HE DID IN THE MIDDLE WAS 1656 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,000 RESCUE OUR ECONOMY REBUILD OUR 1657 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,000 MILITARY REFORM THE V.A. AND 1658 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:27,000 REDUCE AMERICA'S INVOLVEMENT IN 1659 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,000 FOREIGN WARS. 1660 00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,000 NOW, I JOIN THE BIPARTISAN 1661 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:32,000 CAUCUS CONDEMNING THE VIOLENCE 1662 00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:34,000 THAT WE SAW AT OUR CAPITOL. 1663 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,000 BUT THE HYPOCRISY IS JUST DOWN 1664 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,000 RIGHT DISORIENTING. 1665 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:40,000 PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLED FOR 1666 00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:41,000 PROTESTS THAT WOULD BE PEACEFUL 1667 00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:42,000 AND PATRIOTIC. 1668 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,000 HE GOT LABELED A NATIONAL 1669 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:45,000 SECURITY THREAT. 1670 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:46,000 YET THE GENTLELADY FROM 1671 00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,000 CALIFORNIA CAN CALL ON HER 1672 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:49,000 SUPPORTERS TO GET PHYSICAL AND 1673 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,000 IN THE FACES OF REPUBLICANS AND 1674 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:52,000 SHE GETS THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF 1675 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,000 THE FINANCIAL SERVICES 1676 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:55,000 COMMITTEE. 1677 00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,000 REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS 1678 00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,000 UTILIZE A PROCESS CONTEMPLATED 1679 00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,000 IN THE CONSTITUTION TO OFFER AN 1680 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,000 OBJECTION AND WE WERE LABELED 1681 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:05,000 SEDITIONISTS. 1682 00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:06,000 DEMOCRAT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS 1683 00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,000 RAISED FUNDS FOR GROUPS 1684 00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:09,000 ATTACKING OUR POLICE BURNING 1685 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,000 OUR CITIES, DESTROYING OUR 1686 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,000 BUSINESSES ESTABLISHING 1687 00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,000 AUTONOMOUS ZONES, AND THEY WERE 1688 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,000 CELEBRATED AS JUSTICE WARRIORS. 1689 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:19,000 WEDNESDAY THEY CALLED FOR 1690 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:20,000 UNITY. 1691 00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:21,000 DEMOCRACY. 1692 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,000 AND HEALING. NOW JUST DAYS LATER SEEKING 1693 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:26,000 POWER AND POLITICAL ADVANTAGE, 1694 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:27,000 THE DEMOCRATS HAVE REVERTED TO 1695 00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:28,000 THE MEAN. 1696 00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,000 THEY'VE GONE BACK TO THEIR 1697 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:31,000 NATURAL STATE. 1698 00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,000 THE PARTY OF IMPEACHMENT, 1699 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,000 REMOVAL AND DIVISION. 1700 00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:36,000 THEY'RE ABOUT TO HAVE UNIFIED 1701 00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,000 CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT. 1702 00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,000 MAYBE THEY'D USE THIS TIME TO 1703 00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:41,000 PREVIEW AN AGENDA FOR THE 1704 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE. 1705 00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,000 NOW, THE LAST TWO TIMES THE 1706 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:46,000 25TH AMENDMENT WAS INVOKED, IT 1707 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,000 WAS TO FACILITATE A 1708 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,000 COLONOSCOPY. NOW THEY'RE USING IT TO 1709 00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,000 FACILITATE A TRANSITION TO JOE 1710 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:54,000 BIDEN. 1711 00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,000 HOW WEIRD. 1712 00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:57,000 WHY? 1713 00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:58,000 I'D CALL IT VIRTUE SIGNALING 1714 00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,000 BUT THERE'S NO VIRTUE IN IT. 1715 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,000 THIS REMOVAL EFFORT ISN'T FOR 1716 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:03,000 AMERICA. IT'S FOR THEM. 1717 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,000 FOR THEIR ABILITY TO SHOWCASE 1718 00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:06,000 AND WIELD POWER. 1719 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,000 AND WE SEE THE POWER OF 1720 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,000 CANCELLATION AND REMOVAL ON 1721 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,000 FULL DISPLAY IN AMERICA TODAY. 1722 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:14,000 "FORBES" MAGAZINE HAS CALLED 1723 00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,000 FOR WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS TO BE 1724 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:17,000 SHAMED AND UNEMPLOYABLE. 1725 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,000 ABC NEWS HAS CALLED FOR THE 1726 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:21,000 CLEANSING OF THE TRUMP 1727 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:22,000 MOVEMENT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, 1728 00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,000 BUT TALKING ABOUT CLEANSING OUR 1729 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:27,000 FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS SURE IS 1730 00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,000 SCARY. BIG TECH HAS DRIVEN CONSUMERS 1731 00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,000 AND CONSERVATIVES OFF OF 1732 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:33,000 PLATFORMS AND THEN WHEN WE 1733 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:35,000 CREATED OUR OWN PLATFORM, IT 1734 00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:36,000 WAS NUKED FROM THE INTERNET 1735 00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,000 ALTOGETHER. 1736 00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:39,000 THE GENTLELADY FROM NEW YORK 1737 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:40,000 WAS BOOTED FROM A HARVARD 1738 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,000 ADVISORY BOARD BECAUSE SHE TOOK 1739 00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,000 AN ADVERSE POSITION ON ELECTORS 1740 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,000 THAT HAD BEEN TAKEN BY EVERY 1741 00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,000 SINGLE MEMBER OF THE 1742 00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,000 CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS IN 1743 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:51,000 2001. 1744 00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,000 CANCELLATIONS FOR SOME, 1745 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,000 CELEBRATIONS FOR OTHERS. 1746 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:59,000 FOR DOING THE EXACT SAME THING. 1747 00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:00,000 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 1748 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,000 STATES CAN'T TWEET OR POST ON 1749 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,000 FACEBOOK BUT WE KNOW FROM 1750 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:06,000 PROJECT THAT THE PRINCIPAL 1751 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,000 COUNSEL FOR PBS CAN CALL FOR 1752 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:09,000 THE GOVERNMENT TO STEAL 1753 00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,000 CHILDREN FROM REPUBLICANS AND 1754 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,000 THROW MOLOTOV COCKTAILS AT THE 1755 00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,000 WHITE HOUSE. WE SHOULD ALLOW AMERICA TO HEAL 1756 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:18,000 BEFORE AMERICA IS LOST, BUT 1757 00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,000 THAT IS NOT HAPPENING TODAY. 1758 00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,000 I'D REQUEST 30 MORE SECONDS. 1759 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1760 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:24,000 GENTLEMAN IS GIVEN 30 1761 00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:25,000 ADDITIONAL SECONDS. MR. GAETZ: THE DEAL NOW IS 1762 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,000 HOUSE DEMOCRATS JUST WANT IN ON 1763 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,000 THE ACT. THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THE 1764 00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:30,000 RESOLUTION TODAY. 1765 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,000 THEY WANT TO SHOW YOU THAT THEY 1766 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:33,000 CAN STILL TEAR THINGS DOWN. 1767 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,000 I GUESS OVER THE NEXT TWO 1768 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:36,000 YEARS, WE'LL SEE IF THEY'RE 1769 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,000 CAPABLE OF BUILDING ANYTHING OR 1770 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:39,000 ANYONE UP. 1771 00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,000 THIS IS A DEEPLY UNPOPULAR 1772 00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:43,000 IMPEACHMENT. 1773 00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:46,000 THE PRESIDENT WISHES WE WERE HERE DEALING WITH CORONAVIRUS, 1774 00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,000 NOT THE VIRUS OF TRUMP HATRED 1775 00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,000 THAT YOU SEEM TO HAVE FOUND NO 1776 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:51,000 VACCINE FOR. 1777 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:52,000 I YIELD BACK. 1778 00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:53,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1779 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:54,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 1780 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:55,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1781 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO RESERVES. 1782 00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:58,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND IS 1783 00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,000 NOW RECOGNIZED. 1784 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,000 MR. RASKIN: THANK YOU VERY 1785 00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:05,000 MUCH, MR. SPEAKER. I HEARD ONE OF OUR COLLEAGUES 1786 00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,000 SAY IT WAS THE FAULT OF THE 1787 00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,000 MOB, NOT DONALD TRUMP. 1788 00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:10,000 BUT WHO SUMMONED THE MOB? 1789 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,000 WHO CREATED THE MOB? 1790 00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:13,000 WHO ASSEMBLED IT? 1791 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,000 YOU DON'T HAVE TO TRUST US IF 1792 00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,000 YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU CALL 1793 00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:19,000 DEMOCRAT MEMBERS -- WE DO 1794 00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:20,000 PREFER DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS, FOR 1795 00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:23,000 THE NEW ONES, BUT HOW ABOUT 1796 00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,000 THIS. LISTEN TO THE CHAIR OF YOUR OWN 1797 00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:26,000 CONFERENCE. 1798 00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:27,000 THE CHAIR OF THE REPUBLICAN 1799 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,000 CONFERENCE, LIZ CHENEY, SAID, 1800 00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:30,000 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 1801 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,000 STATES SUMMONED THIS MOB. 1802 00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:34,000 ASSEMBLED THE MOB. 1803 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,000 AND LIT THE FLAME OF THIS 1804 00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,000 ATTACK. EVERYTHING THAT FOLLOWED WAS 1805 00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:39,000 HIS DOING, NONE OF THIS WOULD 1806 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,000 HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT THE 1807 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:43,000 PRESIDENT. SO YOU CAN HATE THE DEMOCRAT 1808 00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:44,000 MEMBERS ALL YOU WANT THAT IS 1809 00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:46,000 THE CHAIR OF THE REPUBLICAN 1810 00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:47,000 CONFERENCE, MR. SPEAKER. 1811 00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,000 I YIELD ONE MINUTE TO MRS. 1812 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:50,000 MALONEY. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1813 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,000 GENTLELADY FROM NEW YORK MRS. 1814 00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:53,000 MALONEY, THE CHAIR OF THE 1815 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:54,000 GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, 1816 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:55,000 IS RECOGNIZED. 1817 00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:56,000 MRS. MALONEY: THANK YOU, MR. 1818 00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:57,000 SPEAKER. 1819 00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:59,000 LIKE ALL OF US IN THIS CHAMBER, 1820 00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,000 THE VICE PRESIDENT AND THE 1821 00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,000 CABINET SWORE IN THEIR OATHS OF 1822 00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,000 OFFICE TO PROTECT AND DEFEND 1823 00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,000 THE CONSTITUTION FROM ENEMIES, 1824 00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,000 FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. 1825 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,000 NOW THEY MUST FULFILL THAT OATH 1826 00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:14,000 BY INVOKING THE 25TH AMENDMENT. 1827 00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:15,000 DONALD TRUMP'S RECKLESS ACTIONS 1828 00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,000 ON AND LEADING TO JANUARY 6 1829 00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:19,000 UNDERSCORE THAT HE'S A CLEAR 1830 00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:22,000 AND PRESENT DANGER TO OUR 1831 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,000 DEMOCRATIC TRADITIONS. 1832 00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,000 HE REPEATEDLY AND BLATANTLY 1833 00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,000 LIED SPOUTING BASELESS CLAIMS 1834 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,000 OF A STOLEN ELECTION AND FRAUD. 1835 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:33,000 HE CALLED ON HIS SUPPORTERS TO 1836 00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,000 COME TO D.C. ON JANUARY 6, A 1837 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,000 DAY WHICH HE SAID, I QUOTE 1838 00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:38,000 WILL BE WILD, END QUOTE. 1839 00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,000 AND WILLFULLY INCITED AN ARMED 1840 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,000 AND DEADLY INSURRECTION AGAINST 1841 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:44,000 ANOTHER BRANCH OF OUR GOVERNMENT. 1842 00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,000 PRESIDENT TRUMP MUST BE HELD 1843 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,000 ACCOUNTABLE AND WE MUST RETURN 1844 00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:51,000 TO THE PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF 1845 00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:54,000 POWER. I URGE A YES VOTE AND I YIELD 1846 00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,000 BACK. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1847 00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:57,000 GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HER TIME. 1848 00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:58,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND RESERVES. 1849 00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. MR. JORDAN: MR. SPEAKER, WE 1850 00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:01,000 WOULD RESERVE. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1851 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:02,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1852 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:03,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. MR. RASKIN: I YIELD TO MR. 1853 00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,000 CLYBURN FOR ONE MINUTE. 1854 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:06,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN FROM SOUTH CAROLINA, 1855 00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:07,000 MR. CLYBURN, THE MAJORITY WHIP, 1856 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:10,000 IS RECOGNIZED. 1857 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:11,000 MR. CLYBURN: THANK YOU VERY 1858 00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:14,000 MUCH, MR. SPEAKER. I RISE IN SUPPORT OF THIS 1859 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:15,000 RESOLUTION. 1860 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:18,000 IN RECENT DAYS, IT HAS BECOME 1861 00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:19,000 INDISPUTABLE THAT THIS 1862 00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:22,000 PRESIDENT IS UNABLE TO UPHOLD 1863 00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,000 HIS OATH TO PRESERVE PROTECT 1864 00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,000 AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION. 1865 00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,000 ON THE CONTRARY. 1866 00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,000 HE SEEMS ONLY CAPABLE OF 1867 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:33,000 ATTACKING THE CONSTITUTION. 1868 00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,000 NEVER BEFORE HAS A PRESIDENT 1869 00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:37,000 SOUGHT TO OVERTURN A FAIR AND 1870 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:40,000 SECURE ELECTION, THREATENING 1871 00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,000 STATE OFFICIALS TO MANUFACTURE 1872 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:44,000 FRAUDULENT VOTES. 1873 00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:47,000 NEVER BEFORE HAS A PRESIDENT 1874 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:52,000 INCITED MOB VIOLENCE TO BLOCK 1875 00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:55,000 CERTIFICATION OF HIS OPPONENT'S 1876 00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,000 VICTORY. NEVER BEFORE HAS THE PRESIDENT 1877 00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,000 REFUSED TO CONDEMN AND DEMAND 1878 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,000 THE CESSATION OF AN ATTACK ON 1879 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,000 OUR COUNTRY. 1880 00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,000 THE DEVASTATING BRUISES ON OUR 1881 00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,000 NATION'S SOUL CAN ONLY BEGIN TO 1882 00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:12,000 HEAL BY REMOVING THE WEAPON 1883 00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,000 USED TO BLUDGEON US. 1884 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:15,000 THE VICE PRESIDENT MUST INVOKE 1885 00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:19,000 THE 25TH AMENDMENT TO 1886 00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:22,000 IMMEDIATELY REMOVE POWER FROM 1887 00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,000 THIS DANGEROUS PRESIDENT. 1888 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:27,000 AND IF HE DOESN'T, WE MUST VOTE 1889 00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:28,000 TO IMPEACH. 1890 00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:29,000 I YIELD BACK. 1891 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1892 00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:31,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 1893 00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:32,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE 1894 00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:33,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1895 00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:34,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO, MR. 1896 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:35,000 JORDAN. THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE 1897 00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:36,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1898 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,000 MR. RASKIN, YOU MAY PROCEED. 1899 00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,000 MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE 1900 00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:41,000 TO MR. KRISHNAMOORTHI FROM 1901 00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:42,000 ILLINOIS. 1902 00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:43,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN FROM ILLINOIS IS 1903 00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:44,000 RECOGNIZED FOR ONE MINUTE. 1904 00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,000 MR. KRISHNAMOORTHI: MR. SPEAKER, I'M SO GLAD OUR 1905 00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,000 FRIENDS HAVE CHANGED THEIR 1906 00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,000 MANTRA FROM STOP THE STEAL TO 1907 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:51,000 START TO HEAL. 1908 00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,000 BUT IN ORDER TO HEAL, YOU HAVE 1909 00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,000 TO TAKE STRONG MEDICINE AND 1910 00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,000 THAT MEDICINE HAPPENS TO BE THE 1911 00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:58,000 TRUTH. 1912 00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,000 MY FRIENDS, THE TRUTH IS, 1913 00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:01,000 UNFORTUNATELY THIS PRESIDENT IS 1914 00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:04,000 NO LONGER FIT TO SERVE. 1915 00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,000 WE CANNOT TRUST THIS PRESIDENT 1916 00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,000 TO PROTECT AMERICAN DEMOCRACY 1917 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,000 AFTER HE ENCOURAGED HIS 1918 00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:12,000 SUPPORTERS TO QUOTE-UNQUOTE 1919 00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:14,000 FIGHT LIKE HELL IN STORMING THE 1920 00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:17,000 CAPITOL. WE CANNOT TRUST THEM TO PROTECT 1921 00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:19,000 AMERICAN SAFETY AFTER HE TOLD 1922 00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:20,000 THESE VIOLENT SEDITIONISTS 1923 00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,000 THAT QUOTE WE LOVE YOU, 1924 00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:25,000 YOU'RE VERY SPECIAL CLOSED 1925 00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:26,000 QUOTE. 1926 00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:28,000 WE CANNOT TRUST THIS PRESIDENT 1927 00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:30,000 TO TELL RIGHT FROM WRONG, EVEN 1928 00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:31,000 TODAY. 1929 00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,000 WHEN HE SAID THAT HIS REMARKS 1930 00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:36,000 ON JANUARY 6 WERE, 1931 00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:37,000 QUOTE-UNQUOTE, TOTALLY 1932 00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,000 APPROPRIATE. 1933 00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,000 MR. SPEAKER, WE CANNOT TRUST 1934 00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:44,000 THIS PRESIDENT TO PROTECT US 1935 00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:48,000 WHEN HE INSTIGATED A MOB THAT 1936 00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:49,000 TRIED TO KILL US. 1937 00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:51,000 I YIELD BACK. 1938 00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:52,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1939 00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:53,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 1940 00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:54,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE 1941 00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. MR. JORDAN: RESERVE. 1942 00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:57,000 WE RESERVE. 1943 00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:58,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE 1944 00:58:58,000 --> 00:58:59,000 OF HIS TIME. 1945 00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:01,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. MR. RASKIN: I YIELD 45 SECONDS 1946 00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,000 TO MR. SOTO FROM FLORIDA. 1947 00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:08,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR 45 1948 00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:09,000 SECONDS. THE GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. 1949 00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,000 MR. SOTO: MR. SPEAKER, I WAS IN 1950 00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:12,000 THE GALLERY RIGHT BEHIND US 1951 00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,000 WHEN THE CAPITOL WAS BREACHED. 1952 00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,000 THEN DOMESTIC TERRORISTS 1953 00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:18,000 BREACHED THE ROTUNDA. 1954 00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:22,000 I HEARD THE LOUD SOUNDS OF 1955 00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:24,000 GUNSHOTS THROUGH THIS SACRED 1956 00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:27,000 CHAMBER AND MY LAST IMAGES WERE 1957 00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,000 BRAVE CAPITOL POLICE, GUNS 1958 00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:31,000 DRAWN TO PROTECT US. 1959 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:34,000 THIS WAS THE 1960 00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,000 THIS WAS THE FIRST ARMED 1961 00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,000 INSURRECTION IN 00 YEARS. 1962 00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:42,000 WHO INCITED THIS INSURRECTION? 1963 00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:43,000 DONALD J. TRUMP. 1964 00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:45,000 OUR RESOLUTION STATES THESE 1965 00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:47,000 PROTESTS WERE ENCOURAGED BY HIM. 1966 00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:49,000 HE URGED MILLIONS OF HIS 1967 00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:50,000 FOLLOWERS TO COME AND STOP THE 1968 00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:53,000 STEAL, WHICH IS A LIE, AND LET'S 1969 00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:54,000 SAY NOW FOR THE RECORD AND FOR 1970 00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:57,000 THE AGES, JOE BIDEN WON. 1971 00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,000 FOR THIS HIGH CRIME, NEARLY 1972 00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,000 RIPPING OUR COUNTRY ABACK, WE 1973 01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:02,000 SHOULD BE REMOVING HIM BY THE 1974 01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:03,000 25TH AMENDMENT OR HE SHOULD BE 1975 01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:06,000 IMPEACHED. 1976 01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:07,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1977 01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:08,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND 1978 01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:09,000 RESERVES. 1979 01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:10,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. 1980 01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:11,000 MR. JORDAN: RESERVE. 1981 01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:12,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1982 01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:13,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. 1983 01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:16,000 MR. RASKIN: I YIELD TO THE 1984 01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:17,000 DISTINGUISHED CONGRESS LADY FROM 1985 01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:18,000 CALIFORNIA, MS. WATERS. 1986 01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:19,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1987 01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:23,000 GENTLELADY IS RECOGNIZED. 1988 01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:27,000 MS. WATERS: -- 1989 01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:28,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: HOW 1990 01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:30,000 MUCH TIME ARE YOU YIELDING? 1991 01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,000 THE GENTLEMAN YIELDS TO THE 1992 01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:34,000 GENTLELADY ONE MINUTE. 1993 01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:39,000 MS. WATERS: -- 1994 01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:42,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1995 01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:43,000 GENTLELADY IS NOW RECOGNIZED FOR 1996 01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:45,000 ONE MINUTE. 1997 01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,000 MS. WATERS: MR. SPEAKER, ON 1998 01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:51,000 JANUARY 6 2021, DOMESTIC 1999 01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:52,000 TERRORISTS THE PRESIDENT HAS 2000 01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:55,000 EMPOWERED FOR YEARS STORMED THE 2001 01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:57,000 CAPITOL, DESECRATED THE PEOPLE'S 2002 01:00:57,000 --> 01:00:59,000 HOUSE, AND THREATENED THE LIVES 2003 01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,000 OF THE SPEAKER VICE PRESIDENT, 2004 01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:02,000 AND COUNTLESS OTHER MEMBERS AND 2005 01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:03,000 STAFF. 2006 01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:07,000 NONE OF US WILL EVER FORGET THAT 2007 01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:09,000 DAY, THE INVASION OF THE CAPITOL 2008 01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:12,000 WAS NOT ONLY FORESEEABLE, IT WAS 2009 01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,000 INEVITABLE BECAUSE OF THE MANY 2010 01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:16,000 YEARS THE PRESIDENT HAS SPENT 2011 01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:18,000 FANNING THE FLAMES OF HATRED AND 2012 01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:20,000 RACISM IN OUR COUNTRY. 2013 01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:21,000 THE FACTS ARE CLEAR. 2014 01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:23,000 THE PRESIDENT RALLY HIS 2015 01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:25,000 SUPPORTERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE 2016 01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:27,000 AND THEN SENT THEM TO THE 2017 01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:29,000 CAPITOL TO DISRUPT OUR DEMOCRACY 2018 01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:32,000 AND OVERTURN AN ELECTION. 2019 01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:33,000 I WON'T SPEND ANOTHER SECOND 2020 01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:35,000 EXPLAINING WHY DONALD TRUMP 2021 01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:38,000 SHOULD HAVE LONG AGO BEEN 2022 01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:39,000 REMOVED FROM OFFICE. 2023 01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:41,000 DONALD TRUMP SHOWED US WHO HE 2024 01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:44,000 WAS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. 2025 01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:45,000 TOO MANY PEOPLE TURNED A BLIND 2026 01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:47,000 EYE. 2027 01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:49,000 AND LAST WEDNESDAY, OUR COUNTRY 2028 01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:50,000 PAID THE PRICE. 2029 01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:51,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 2030 01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:52,000 TIME. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2031 01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:54,000 GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK. 2032 01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:56,000 MR. RASKIN: HOW MUCH TIME DO 2033 01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:57,000 BOTH SIDES HAVE REMAINING, 2034 01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:59,000 PLEASE. 2035 01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND IS 2036 01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:04,000 ADVISED HE HAS 7 3/4 MINUTES 2037 01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:07,000 REMAINING. THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO HAS 2038 01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:09,000 EIGHT MINUTES REMAINING. 2039 01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:10,000 MR. RASKIN: I RESERVE. 2040 01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:11,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2041 01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:13,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES. THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. 2042 01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:14,000 MR. YORDAN: I YIELD MYSELF SUCH 2043 01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:17,000 TIME AS I MIGHT USE. 2044 01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:19,000 THIS PAST GOVERNMENT -- PAST 2045 01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:20,000 YEAR GOVERNMENT TOLD AMERICANS 2046 01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:21,000 YOU CAN'T GO TO CHURCH, CAN'T GO 2047 01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:22,000 TO SCHOOL. 2048 01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,000 ONE HOUR AGO, DEMOCRATS TOLD 2049 01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:25,000 REPUBLICANS, NEW RULE, NEW RULES 2050 01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:29,000 FOR THE HOUSE. 2051 01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:31,000 TODAY YOU CAN SAY ANYTHING YOU 2052 01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:33,000 WANT ABOUT THE PRESIDENT NO RULE 2053 01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:35,000 OF DECORUM NO RULE ABOUT 2054 01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,000 ATTACKING PERSONALITY, THEY CAN 2055 01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:39,000 SAY NEG THEY WANT AND THEY'VE 2056 01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:40,000 DONE THAT TODAY ON THE FLOOR 2057 01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:41,000 YOU'VE GOT TO WEAR A MASK. 2058 01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:43,000 IF YOUR MASK COMES BELOW THE 2059 01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:45,000 NOSE YOU'LL BE FINED. 2060 01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:47,000 IN ORDER TO COME IN HERE AND 2061 01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:48,000 CONSTITUTIONALLY REPRESENT YOUR 2062 01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:50,000 CONSTITUENTS, THE 750,000 PEOPLE 2063 01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:52,000 WE ALL GET THE PRIVE LEM OF 2064 01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:53,000 SERVING YOU HAD TO WALK THROUGH 2065 01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:54,000 A METAL DETECTOR. 2066 01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,000 THEY DID ALL THESE CHANGES WITH 2067 01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:59,000 LESS THAN 40 MINUTES OF DEBATE. 2068 01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:00,000 TOMORROW, THEY'RE GOING TO 2069 01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:01,000 IMPEACH A PRESIDENT. 2070 01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:02,000 A PRESIDENT WHO IS LEAVING 2071 01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:03,000 OFFICE IN EIGHT DAYS. 2072 01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:05,000 EIGHT DAYS BEFORE THERE WILL BE 2073 01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:07,000 A PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER 2074 01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:09,000 JUST LIKE THERE HAS BEEN EVERY 2075 01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:11,000 OTHER TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 2076 01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:14,000 BUT THEY'RE GOING TO DO 2077 01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:15,000 IMPEACHMENT. 2078 01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:16,000 THEY'RE GOING TO DO IT. AGAIN. 2079 01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:17,000 THEY'VE BEEN OBSESSED WITH IT. 2080 01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:19,000 IT IS TRULY AN OBSESSION. 2081 01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:20,000 PEOPLE ON THE DEMOCRAT SIDE 2082 01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:23,000 STARTED CALLING FOR IMPEACHMENT 2083 01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:25,000 THE DAY PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS 2084 01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,000 INAUGURATED THAT I -- THEY 2085 01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:28,000 ATTACKED HIM BEFORE HE WON THE 2086 01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:29,000 FIRST ELECTION. 2087 01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:32,000 BEFORE HE WON IN 2016. 2088 01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:34,000 THEY ATTACKED HIM THAT SUMMER 2089 01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:35,000 WHEN THEY STARTED THEIR 2090 01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:37,000 INVESTIGATION. 2091 01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:38,000 THIS IS SCARY WHERE THIS GOES 2092 01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:40,000 BECAUSE THIS IS MORE THAN ABOUT 2093 01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:41,000 IMPEACHING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 2094 01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,000 THIS IS ABOUT CANCELING THE 2095 01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:45,000 PRESIDENT AND CANCELING ALL THE 2096 01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,000 PEOPLE YOU GUYS DISAGREE WITH. 2097 01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:49,000 THAT'S WHAT SCARES ME MORE THAN 2098 01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,000 ANYTHING. WE HAVE SEEN IT PLAY OUT OVER 2099 01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:52,000 THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. 2100 01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:53,000 I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE THE 2101 01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:55,000 THINGS WE ARE NOW WITNESSING. 2102 01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:56,000 I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT ENDS BUT I 2103 01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:58,000 TELL YOU WHAT, IT SHOULD SCARE 2104 01:03:58,000 --> 01:03:59,000 US ALL. 2105 01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:01,000 I SAID THIS IN THE JUDICIARY 2106 01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:02,000 COMMITTEE, AND THE GENTLEMAN 2107 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:04,000 FROM MARYLAND WILL REMEMBER THIS 2108 01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:07,000 THE CANCEL CULTURE DOESN'T JUST 2109 01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:08,000 GO AFTER CONSERVATIVES AND 2110 01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:09,000 REPUBLICANS. 2111 01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:10,000 IT WON'T JUST STOP THERE. 2112 01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:12,000 IT'LL COME FOR US ALL. 2113 01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,000 THAT'S WHAT'S FRIGHTENING. 2114 01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:16,000 I HOPE, I HOPE, YOU ALL 2115 01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:19,000 RECOGNIZE THAT. AND AT SOME POINT AT SOME 2116 01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:21,000 POINT, WE CAN UNITE AND ACTUALLY 2117 01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,000 DO THINGS THAT HELP THOSE FOLKS 2118 01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:25,000 BECOME HOME THAT WE ALL GET THE 2119 01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:27,000 PRIVILEGE OF REPRESENTING. 2120 01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:29,000 RESERVE OUR TIME, MR. SPEAKER. 2121 01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:30,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2122 01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:31,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES. 2123 01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:33,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. 2124 01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:36,000 MR. RASKIN: THANK YOU. THE CANCEL CULTURE OF VIOLENT 2125 01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:37,000 WHITE SUPREMACY TRIED TO CANCEL 2126 01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,000 ALL OUR LIVES LAST WEDNESDAY. 2127 01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:43,000 I YIELD ONE MINUTE TO 2128 01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,000 CONGRESSMAN -- 2129 01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:47,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. 2130 01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:48,000 >> ON JANUARY 7, I WAS OUTSIDE 2131 01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:51,000 THOSE DOORS WHERE 14 HOURS 2132 01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:53,000 EARLIER A RIOTER WAS SHOT AS SHE 2133 01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:54,000 VIOLENTLY TRIED TO ENTER THIS 2134 01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:55,000 CHAMBER. 2135 01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:56,000 IT WAS IN THAT EARLY MORNING 2136 01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:58,000 THAT I HAD A BRIEF CONVERSATION 2137 01:04:58,000 --> 01:04:59,000 WITH VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE 2138 01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:01,000 RIGHT AFTER WE FINISHED 2139 01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:02,000 CERTIFYING THE ELECTORAL 2140 01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:04,000 COLLEGE. I WAS PROUD THAT WE DID OUR JOB 2141 01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:05,000 THAT MORNING DESPITE THE 2142 01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:07,000 VIOLENCE WE EXPERIENCELED 2143 01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:08,000 EARLIER THAT DAY BUT I KNEW THAT 2144 01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:09,000 WAS NOT ENOUGH. 2145 01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:12,000 BECAUSE OF THE SEDITIOUS ACTIONS 2146 01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:13,000 BY PRESIDENT TRUMP BEFORE THAT 2147 01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:15,000 RYE YET AND HIS INACTION DURING 2148 01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,000 THAT RIOT. 2149 01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:18,000 MR. PANETTA:: I SAID TO THE VICE 2150 01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:19,000 PRESIDENT, IT'S UP TO YOU TO 2151 01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:20,000 KEEP US SAFE. 2152 01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:21,000 TONIGHT WITH THE PRESIDENT STILL 2153 01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,000 IN OFFICE, I'M BEYOND ASKING. 2154 01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:25,000 I'M LEGISLATING TO COMPEL THE 2155 01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:26,000 VICE PRESIDENT TO CONVENE THE 2156 01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:28,000 CABINET, TO CONCLUDE THAT THE 2157 01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:30,000 PRESIDENT IS NOT JUST UNABLE, 2158 01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:32,000 BUT CLEARLY HE IS UNWILLING AND 2159 01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:35,000 UNWORTHY TO DISCHARGE HIS DEWS. 2160 01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:36,000 THROUGH THIS LEGISLATION, I ASK 2161 01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:38,000 AND I ASK MY COLLEAGUES, TO CALL 2162 01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:39,000 ON THE VICE PRESIDENT TO INVOKE 2163 01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:42,000 THE 25TH AMENDMENT, YES TO KEEP 2164 01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:44,000 US SAFE AND KEEP THIS NATION 2165 01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:45,000 SECURE. THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. 2166 01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:46,000 I YIELD BACK. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2167 01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:47,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK. 2168 01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:48,000 THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES. 2169 01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:51,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. 2170 01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,000 MR. JORDAN: I YIELD TO THE 2171 01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:54,000 GENTLELADY FROM NEW MEXICO FOR 2172 01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:55,000 ONE MINUTE. 2173 01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:56,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2174 01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:57,000 GENTLELADY IS RECOGNIZED FOR ONE 2175 01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:58,000 MINUTE. >> THANK YOU MR. SPEAKER. 2176 01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,000 I RISE IN OPPOSITION TO THE 2177 01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:02,000 MISUSE OF THE 25TH AMENDMENT. 2178 01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:03,000 TO PRESERVE SEPARATION OF POWER 2179 01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:06,000 THE AUTHORS OF THE 25TH 2180 01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:07,000 AMENDMENT CORRECTLY INTENDED 2181 01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:09,000 SECTION 4 TO BE INITIATED BY THE 2182 01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:10,000 VICE PRESIDENT, NOT BY THE 2183 01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:13,000 REQUEST OF CONGRESS. 2184 01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:15,000 PROCESS CONCERNS ASIDE THE FACT 2185 01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:16,000 IS REMOVING THE PRESIDENT FROM 2186 01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:19,000 OFFICE WILL NOT HEAL OUR NATION. 2187 01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:22,000 IT WILL NOT BRIDGE OUR PARTISAN 2188 01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:24,000 DIVIDE TO GIVE AMERICANS HOPE OR 2189 01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:26,000 BRING US TOGETHER. 2190 01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:27,000 IT WILL ONLY MAKE THINGS WORSE. 2191 01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:29,000 WE ARE JUST DAYS AWAY UNTIL 2192 01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:30,000 PRESIDENT TRUMP LEAVES THE WHITE 2193 01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:33,000 HOUSE AND JUST DAYS INTO OUR NEW 2194 01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:34,000 CONGRESS WE HAVE MORE IMPORTANT 2195 01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:36,000 THINGS TO DO WE SHOULD BE 2196 01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:37,000 WORKING TO HOLD BIG TECH 2197 01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:39,000 ACCOUNTABLE. WE SHOULD BE WORKING TO HELP 2198 01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:40,000 FAMILIES AND SMALL BUSINESSES 2199 01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:41,000 GET THROUGH THE PANDEMIC. 2200 01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:43,000 WE SHOULD BE WORKING ON JOBS, 2201 01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:44,000 INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY AND ALL 2202 01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:46,000 THE OTHER ISSUES OUR 2203 01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:48,000 CONSTITUENTS SENT US HERE TO 2204 01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:49,000 ADDRESS. 2205 01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:50,000 I AM APPALLED BY THE VIOLENCE 2206 01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:52,000 THAT TOOK PLACE HERE LAST WEEK. 2207 01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:54,000 THOSE WHO ASSAULTED POLICE 2208 01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:56,000 OFFICERS AND FORCED THIRE WAY 2209 01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,000 INTO THAT IS HALLLOWED HALLS ARE 2210 01:06:58,000 --> 01:06:59,000 RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE IN FAVOR 2211 01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:00,000 SAY AYE CRIMINAL ACTS AND MUST 2212 01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:01,000 BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. 2213 01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:06,000 MS. HERL: I CANNOT SUPPORT THE 2214 01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:07,000 -- 2215 01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:12,000 MS. HERL: I CANNOT SUPPORT THIS, 2216 01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:13,000 I CANNOT -- WE HAVE GOT TO STAND 2217 01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:14,000 FOR THE CONSTITUTION. 2218 01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:18,000 THIS IS OUR NEHEMIAH MOMENT AND 2219 01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:19,000 WE BETTER TAKE ADVANTAGE. 2220 01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:20,000 I YIELD BACK. 2221 01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:21,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2222 01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:22,000 GENTLEMAN GENTLELADY YIELDS 2223 01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:23,000 BACK. 2224 01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:26,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. 2225 01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:28,000 THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES. 2226 01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:29,000 MR. RASKIN. 2227 01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:31,000 MR. RASKIN: I YIELD TO DR. BERA 2228 01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:33,000 45 SECONDS. 2229 01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:35,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR 45 2230 01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:36,000 SECONDS. 2231 01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:37,000 MR. BERA: JUST OVER A WEEK AGO 2232 01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:39,000 WE ALL TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE, 2233 01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:41,000 ALL OF US, DEMOCRATS AN 2234 01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:42,000 REPUBLICANS. PART OF THAT OATH WAS TO SUPPORT 2235 01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:43,000 AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION 2236 01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:45,000 AGAINST ALL ENEMIES BOTH FOREIGN 2237 01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:47,000 AND DOMESTIC. 2238 01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:49,000 IT'S QUITE CLEAR WHAT HAPPENED 2239 01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:50,000 LAST WEDNESDAY, A DOMESTIC 2240 01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:52,000 ATTACK ON OUR GOVERNMENT, A 2241 01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:54,000 DOMESTIC ATTACK ON THIS BODY. 2242 01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:57,000 REPUBLICANS HAVE ALREADY 2243 01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:00,000 ACKNOWLEDGED WHO INSTIGATED THE 2244 01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:02,000 ATARK, THE LEAD INSTIGATOR WAS 2245 01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:03,000 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 2246 01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:04,000 STATES. 2247 01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:05,000 IT IS OUR SOLEMN DUTY TO UPHOLD 2248 01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:06,000 OUR OATH TO DEFEND OUR 2249 01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:08,000 CONSTITUTION AGAINST ALL ENEMIES 2250 01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:09,000 FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC THERE IS 2251 01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:11,000 NOTHING MORE SOLEMN THAN WHAT WE 2252 01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:12,000 HAVE TO DO. 2253 01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:14,000 IF MY COLLEAGUES DONE WANT TO 2254 01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:15,000 INSTIGATE THE 25TH AMENDMENT, 2255 01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:17,000 THAT'S ONE MECHANISM, WE'LL GIVE 2256 01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:19,000 YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPEACH 2257 01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:20,000 THE PRESIDENT. THAT'S OUR DUTY. 2258 01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:21,000 THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO DO. 2259 01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:22,000 LET'S UPHOLD OUR OATH. 2260 01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:23,000 I YIELD BACK. 2261 01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:24,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2262 01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:25,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK. 2263 01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:26,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. 2264 01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:31,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. 2265 01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:32,000 MR. JORDAN: RESERVE. 2266 01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:33,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. 2267 01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:35,000 MR. RASKIN: 45 SECONDS TO MR. 2268 01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:36,000 GOMEZ. 2269 01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:37,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 45 2270 01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:41,000 SECONDS IS YIELDED TO MR. GOMEZ. 2271 01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:43,000 MR. GOMEZ: THANK YOU THANK YOU, 2272 01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:44,000 MR. SPEAKER. 2273 01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:45,000 WE'RE HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE A 2274 01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:46,000 VIOLENT MOB INCITED BY THE 2275 01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:47,000 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 2276 01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:49,000 BASED ON A LIE LAY SIEGE TO 2277 01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:51,000 CONGRESS TO OVERTURN A 2278 01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:52,000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. 2279 01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:54,000 BUT WE HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES, 2280 01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:56,000 WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THAT 2281 01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:57,000 MOB SUCCEEDED? 2282 01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:59,000 WHY STOP AT ONE ELECTION? 2283 01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:00,000 WHY NOT TWO? 2284 01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:02,000 WHY NOT MAKE DONALD TRUMP 2285 01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:04,000 PRESIDENT FOR LIFE? 2286 01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:06,000 THANK GOD THAT DID NOT HAPPEN 2287 01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:08,000 AND THEY DID NOT SUCCEED. 2288 01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:09,000 HOWEVER, EVEN AFTER THAT 2289 01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:12,000 TERRIBLE DAY OF JANUARY 6 2021, 2290 01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:14,000 DONALD TRUMP IS STILL USING THE 2291 01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:16,000 LIE OF A STOLEN ELECTION TO TURN 2292 01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:18,000 AMERICAN AGAINST AMERICAN FOR 2293 01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:20,000 HIS OWN SELFISH ENDS. 2294 01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:21,000 I BELIEVE EVEN WITH ONLY A FEW 2295 01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:23,000 DAYS LEFT IN OFFICE THAT DONALD 2296 01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:25,000 TRUMP IS STILL A DANGER TO OUR 2297 01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:27,000 REPUBLIC AND MUST BE REMOVED 2298 01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:29,000 IMMEDIATELY. 2299 01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:31,000 AS A FACT AND AS AN EXAMPLE 2300 01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:33,000 TODAY THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF 2301 01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:38,000 ISSUED A STATEMENT -- 2302 01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:39,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2303 01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:42,000 GENTLEMAN IS GRANNED 0 SECONDS. 2304 01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:43,000 MR. GOMEZ: TODAY THE JOINT 2305 01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:44,000 CHIEFS OF STAFF ISSUED A 2306 01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:46,000 STATEMENT REAFFIRMING THEIR 2307 01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:48,000 DEVOTION TO THE RULE OF LAW AND 2308 01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:50,000 AFFIRMING THAT JOE BIDEN WILL BE THE 46TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 2309 01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:51,000 STATES. 2310 01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:52,000 WITH THAT, I YIELD BACK. 2311 01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:54,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK. 2312 01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:56,000 MR. RASKIN. 2313 01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:57,000 RESERVES. THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. 2314 01:09:57,000 --> 01:09:59,000 THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES. 2315 01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:01,000 MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE 2316 01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:02,000 TO MS. VELAZQUEZ OF NEW YORK. 2317 01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:04,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLELADY FROM NEW YORK CHAIR 2318 01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:05,000 OF THE COMMITTEE ON SMALL 2319 01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:06,000 BUSINESS IS RECOGNIZED FOR ONE 2320 01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:11,000 MINUTE. 2321 01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:15,000 MS. VELAZQUEZ: I RISE IN STRONG 2322 01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:20,000 SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION. 2323 01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:23,000 OUR CHILDREN ARE WATCHING ALL OF 2324 01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:26,000 THIS AN LEARNING FROM ALL OF IT. 2325 01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:29,000 I BELIEVE WE EACH HAVE A MORAL 2326 01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,000 OBLIGATION TO EXERCISE GOOD 2327 01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:34,000 JUDGMENT AN MODEL THE BEHAVIOR 2328 01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:39,000 WE HOPE THEY WILL EMULATE. 2329 01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:42,000 I AM SURE IS THE CASE WITH MANY 2330 01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:45,000 OF YOU, IT HAS DEEPLY TROUBLED 2331 01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:49,000 ME IN A WAY THAT I SIMPLY CANNOT 2332 01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:52,000 SET ASIDE. 2333 01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:55,000 THAT WAS ELAINE CHAO. 2334 01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:57,000 THESE WERE MEMBERS OF THE 2335 01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:59,000 PRESIDENT'S OWN CABINET WHO BORE 2336 01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:02,000 THE SACRED RESPONSIBLE OF TAKING 2337 01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,000 ACTION WHEN THE PRESIDENT IS 2338 01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:07,000 CLEARLY UNFIT FOR OFFICE. 2339 01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:12,000 BUT THEY -- IF THEY WILL NOT 2340 01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:14,000 ACT, CONGRESS WILL. 2341 01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:16,000 TODAY WE ARE GIVING THE VICE 2342 01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:18,000 PRESIDENT 24 HOURS TO DO RIGHT 2343 01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:20,000 BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 2344 01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:22,000 REMOVE THIS PRESIDENT FROM 2345 01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:24,000 OFFICE AND IF YOU DO NOT, THE 2346 01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:26,000 HOUSE WILL IMPEACH. 2347 01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:27,000 I YIELD BACK. 2348 01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:28,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2349 01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:29,000 GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK. 2350 01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:30,000 THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES. 2351 01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:32,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. 2352 01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:34,000 MR. JORDAN: RESERVE. 2353 01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:35,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: MR. 2354 01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:36,000 RASKIN. 2355 01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:37,000 MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE 2356 01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:38,000 TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM 2357 01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:39,000 CALIFORNIA, MR. SCHIFF. 2358 01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:40,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2359 01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:41,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR ONE 2360 01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:42,000 MINUTE. 2361 01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:44,000 MR. SCHIFF: SIX DAYS AGO I WAS 2362 01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:46,000 STANDING RIGHT HERE, FULFILLING 2363 01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:47,000 MY CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES TO 2364 01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:49,000 CERTIFY THE ELECTION, AND SIX 2365 01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:51,000 DAYS AGO DONALD TRUMP WAS ON THE 2366 01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:53,000 MALL WHIPPING A MOB INTO A 2367 01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:54,000 FRENZY WITH FALSE CLAIMS OF 2368 01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:56,000 STOLEN ELECTIONS AND 2369 01:11:56,000 --> 01:11:58,000 UNCONSTITUTIONAL SCHEMES. 2370 01:11:58,000 --> 01:11:59,000 IT WAS A BIG LIE. 2371 01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:02,000 THE SAME BIG LIE HE HAS BEEN 2372 01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:04,000 TELLING FOR WEEKS. HE TOLD THE MOB, WE ARE GOING TO 2373 01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:06,000 THE CAPITOL AND TO FIGHT LIKE 2374 01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:08,000 HELL AND THEY DID. 2375 01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:10,000 FIVE DIED. 2376 01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:12,000 MANY MORE WERE HURT. 2377 01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:14,000 WE WERE SECONDS AWAY FROM 2378 01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:15,000 SOMETHING MUCH WORSE. 2379 01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:17,000 MY COLLEAGUES UPHOLDING OUR OATH 2380 01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:19,000 TO THE CONSTITUTION AND OUR 2381 01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:21,000 DEMOCRACY MEANS RECOGNIZING THAT 2382 01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:22,000 EVERY SECOND THAT DONALD TRUMP 2383 01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:23,000 IS PRESIDENT, THE NATION IS AT 2384 01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:24,000 RISK. 2385 01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:25,000 WE HAVE THE POWER TO DO 2386 01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:28,000 SOMETHING ABOUT IT, MIKE PENCE 2387 01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:30,000 MUST DO HIS DUTY, INVOKE THE 2388 01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:32,000 25TH AND IF HE WON'T WE MILL 2389 01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:34,000 MOVE -- WE WILL MOVE WITH 2390 01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:36,000 URGENCY TO DO OURS AN IMPEACH 2391 01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:37,000 DONALD TRUMP AGAIN. 2392 01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:38,000 I YIELD BACK. 2393 01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:39,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2394 01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:43,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK. 2395 01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:46,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND IS 2396 01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:49,000 ADVISE HEAD HAS 2 3/4 MINUTES 2397 01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:50,000 REMAINING. 2398 01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:51,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO IS 2399 01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:54,000 ADVISED THAT HE HAS 4 3/4 2400 01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:55,000 MINUTES REMAINING. 2401 01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:56,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM HIGHWAY. 2402 01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:59,000 MR. WHERE ARE DAN: I YIELD THREE 2403 01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:00,000 MINUTES TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM 2404 01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:01,000 OHIO, MR. DAVIDSON. 2405 01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:02,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2406 01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:04,000 GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO IS 2407 01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:05,000 RECOGNIZED FOR THREE MINUTES. 2408 01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:07,000 MR. DAVIDSON: I THANK THE 2409 01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:08,000 GENTLEMAN. MR. SPEAKER, I CAN'T SAY IT 2410 01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:10,000 BETTER THAN THE VICE PRESIDENT 2411 01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:12,000 SAID IT HIMSELF. 2412 01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:15,000 VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE SAID, 2413 01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:17,000 LAST WEEK I DID NOT YIELD TO 2414 01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:18,000 PRESSURE TO EXERT POWER BEYOND 2415 01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:20,000 MY CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO 2416 01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:21,000 DETERMINE THE OUTCOME OF THE 2417 01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:22,000 ELECTION AND I WILL NOT NOW 2418 01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:24,000 YIELD TO EFFORTS IN THE HOUSE OF 2419 01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:25,000 REPRESENTATIVES TO PLAY 2420 01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:27,000 POLITICAL GAMES AT A TIME SO 2421 01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:28,000 SERIOUS IN THE LIFE OF OUR 2422 01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:29,000 NATION. 2423 01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:31,000 I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO 2424 01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:32,000 SUBMIT THIS TO THE RECORD. 2425 01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:33,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 2426 01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:34,000 OBJECTION. 2427 01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:35,000 MR. DAVIDSON: I THANK THE VICE 2428 01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:37,000 PRESIDENT FOR HIS EXCELLENT 2429 01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:38,000 LEADERSHIP, HIS PROFESSIONALISM 2430 01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:40,000 AND FOR HIS FAITHFULNESS TO OUR 2431 01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:42,000 CONSTITUTION. 2432 01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:44,000 IN THE ONLY WOULD IT BE AN ABUSE 2433 01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:46,000 OF THE 25TH AMENDMENT FOR MIKE 2434 01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:48,000 PENCE TO INVOKE IT, TO MAKE A 2435 01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:50,000 POLITICAL STATEMENT, IT'S 2436 01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:52,000 CLEARLY NOT OUR ROLE IN CONGRESS 2437 01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:55,000 TO DO WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE 2438 01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:57,000 TONIGHT, OR IS PROPOSED TO DO BY 2439 01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:58,000 THE MAJORITY. 2440 01:13:58,000 --> 01:13:59,000 SPEAKER PELOSI CLAIMS THAT 2441 01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,000 PRESIDENT TRUMP INCITED THE MOB 2442 01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:04,000 THAT ATTACKED THE CAPITOL AT A 2443 01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:05,000 RALLY. 2444 01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:07,000 AS MR. MCCLINTOCK SPOKE EARLIER 2445 01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:09,000 HE READ THE PRESIDENT'S 2446 01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:11,000 STATEMENT. HE ENCOURAGED PEOPLE TO COME 2447 01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:14,000 PEACEFULLY AND PATRIOTCALLY. 2448 01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:15,000 "THE WASHINGTON POST" IS 2449 01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:17,000 REPORTING SOMETHING THAT I WOULD 2450 01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:18,000 HOPE OUR CHAIRMAN OF THE INTEL 2451 01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:20,000 COMMITTEE WOULD KNOW ABOUT, THE 2452 01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:22,000 F.B.I. REPORT WARNED OF WAR AT 2453 01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:23,000 THE CAPITOL THE DAY BEFORE THE 2454 01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:25,000 ATTACK ON OUR CAPITOL. 2455 01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:28,000 I'M CURIOUS HOW SOMEONE PROPOSES 2456 01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:30,000 THAT THE PRESIDENT INCITED THE 2457 01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:33,000 MOB AT A RALLY THE DAY BEFORE 2458 01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:37,000 THE RALLY. 2459 01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:38,000 I ASK UNANIMOUS CON SENT THE 2460 01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:40,000 ARTICLE BE SUBMITTED TO THE 2461 01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:41,000 RECORD. 2462 01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:42,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 2463 01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:43,000 MS. DAVIDS: OTHERS ARE -- DAVID 2464 01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:45,000 JACOBY OTHERS ARE REPORTING A 2465 01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:46,000 TO IMIN-- 2466 01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:48,000 MR. DAVIDSON: OTHERS ARE 2467 01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:52,000 REPORTING A LINK AS WELL. 2468 01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:55,000 HERE'S WHAT WE DO KNOW. 2469 01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:56,000 NO ONE HAS DEFENDED THIS ATTACK 2470 01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:58,000 ON OUR CAPITOL. 2471 01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:01,000 ON OUR -- CONTRARY, WE ARE 2472 01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:02,000 MISSING, WILLFULLY MISSING, IN 2473 01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:04,000 MY OPINION, A MOMENT OF EXTREME 2474 01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:07,000 UNITY IN OUR NATION. 2475 01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:09,000 JUST LIKE WAS WILLFULLY DONE 2476 01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:11,000 EARLIER THIS YEAR. 2477 01:15:11,000 --> 01:15:14,000 AT A TIME OF GREAT POLITICAL 2478 01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:17,000 AND PARTISAN DIVISION, EVEN 2479 01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:19,000 SEETHING ANGER, ONE THING ALL 2480 01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:21,000 AMERICANS SEEM TO AGREE ON, 2481 01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:24,000 THESE ATTACKS WERE WRONG. 2482 01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:26,000 THE PRESIDENT CONDEMNED THEM, 2483 01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:28,000 HE DISCOURAGED VIOLENCE. 2484 01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:31,000 NOT JUST ON JANUARY 6, BUT ON 2485 01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:32,000 OTHER DAYS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, 2486 01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:35,000 AS HE TALKED ABOUT LAW AND 2487 01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:36,000 ORDER. 2488 01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:37,000 AS HE TALKED ABOUT SOMETHING 2489 01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:39,000 THAT WE FINALLY SEEM TO AGREE 2490 01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:40,000 ON, THAT THERE IS A CLEAR 2491 01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:42,000 DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE 2492 01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:43,000 CONSTITUTION'S FIRST AMENDMENT 2493 01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:45,000 PROTECTION OF THE RIGHT TO 2494 01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:49,000 ASSEMBLE PEACEABLY, AND RIOTS. 2495 01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:51,000 CRIMINAL UNLAWFUL RIOTS. 2496 01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:53,000 THERE'S A DISTINCTION BETWEEN 2497 01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:55,000 RIOTERS AND PROTESTERS AND 2498 01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:56,000 FRANKLY IT TOOK US MONTHS TO 2499 01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:58,000 AGREE ON THAT AS A BODY IN 2500 01:15:58,000 --> 01:15:59,000 CONGRESS. 2501 01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:01,000 BUT THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED 2502 01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:03,000 STATES OF AMERICA AGREED TO IT. 2503 01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:05,000 THEY UNDERSTOOD IT. 2504 01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:07,000 SO I ENCOURAGE MY COLLEAGUES 2505 01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:09,000 ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM, 2506 01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:11,000 THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS HERE 2507 01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:14,000 GATHERED TOGETHER, TODAY AND 2508 01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:16,000 TOMORROW, TO STAND UNITED AND 2509 01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:19,000 MOVE FORWARD WITH THE AGREEMENT 2510 01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:20,000 OUR COUNTRY HAS. 2511 01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:21,000 THIS WAS WRONG. 2512 01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:24,000 AND IT WAS NOT -- 2513 01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:26,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2514 01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:28,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 2515 01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:29,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO 2516 01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:31,000 RESERVES. THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND. 2517 01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:32,000 MR. RASKIN: I YIELD 3/4 OF A 2518 01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:33,000 MINUTE TO MR. ESPAILLAT FROM 2519 01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:34,000 NEW YORK. 2520 01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:35,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2521 01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:36,000 GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK IS 2522 01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:38,000 RECOGNIZED FOR 45 SECONDS. 2523 01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:39,000 MR. ESPAILLAT: THANK YOU, MR. 2524 01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:40,000 SPEAKER. 2525 01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:41,000 WE'VE ALL KNOWN FOR A WHILE 2526 01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:43,000 NOW, BUT THIS PAST WEEK IT HAS 2527 01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:45,000 BECOME UNDENIABLY CLEAR. 2528 01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:47,000 DONALD J. TRUMP IS UNFIT. 2529 01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:50,000 TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE 2530 01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:52,000 DEFENSE, COMMERCE AND 2531 01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:53,000 EDUCATION AND TRANSPORTATION, 2532 01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:54,000 HE IS UNFIT. 2533 01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:56,000 TO THE SECRETARIES OF HUMAN 2534 01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:58,000 SERVICES, HOMELAND SECURITY, 2535 01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:00,000 HOUSING, INTERIOR AND LABOR, HE 2536 01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:01,000 IS UNFIT. 2537 01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:03,000 TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, HE IS 2538 01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:04,000 UNFIT. 2539 01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:05,000 TO THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE 2540 01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:08,000 UNITED STATES, HE SUMMONS HIS 2541 01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:09,000 GOONS, THEY SHUT THEIR HOODS 2542 01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:11,000 AND CAME WITH THEIR RACIST 2543 01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:13,000 CONFEDERATE FLAG TO 2544 01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:14,000 ASSASSINATE HIM. 2545 01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:16,000 TO ASSASSINATE THE VICE 2546 01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:17,000 PRESIDENT. 2547 01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:18,000 HE IS UNFIT. 2548 01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:21,000 INVOKE THE 25TH AMENDMENT. 2549 01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:23,000 IF NOT, WE WILL IMPEACH HIM 2550 01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:24,000 TOMORROW. 2551 01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:25,000 AND I YIELD BACK. 2552 01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:26,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2553 01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:27,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 2554 01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:28,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE 2555 01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:30,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. 2556 01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:31,000 RESERVES. 2557 01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:32,000 MR. RASKIN. 2558 01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:33,000 MR. RASKIN: I'M YIELDING 45 SECONDS TO 2559 01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:34,000 MR. DAVIS OF ILLINOIS. 2560 01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:35,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2561 01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:38,000 GENTLEMAN FROM ILLINOIS, MR. DANNY DAVIS,S IS -- IS 2562 01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:41,000 RECOGNIZED FOR 45 SECONDS. 2563 01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:42,000 MR. DAVIS: THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. 2564 01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:43,000 AFTER LISTENING TO ALL THAT 2565 01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:45,000 I'VE HEARD THIS EVENING I 2566 01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:48,000 STILL HAVE THE FAITH AND BELIEF 2567 01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:52,000 THAT WE CAN COME TOGETHER AS A 2568 01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:54,000 UNIT. I WAS READING MY BIBLE THE 2569 01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:58,000 OTHER DAY AND SAW THAT IT SAID, 2570 01:17:58,000 --> 01:17:59,000 COME AND LET US REASON 2571 01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:00,000 TOGETHER. 2572 01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:03,000 OTHERWISE WE SHALL ALL BE 2573 01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:06,000 DESTROYED BY THE EDGE OF THE 2574 01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:08,000 SWORD. I SAY TO MY COLLEAGUES, LET'S 2575 01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:11,000 REASON TOGETHER. 2576 01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:14,000 YOU CANNOT ERASE TRUTH WITH A 2577 01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,000 LIE. 2578 01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:18,000 YOU CANNOT PRETEND THAT WHAT 2579 01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:22,000 HAS HAPPENED DID NOT HAPPEN. 2580 01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:25,000 YES, WE OUGHT TO HAVE A 2581 01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:27,000 PRESIDENT BUT IT'S TIME FOR 2582 01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:29,000 THIS ONE TO GO. 2583 01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:32,000 I URGE PASSAGE OF THIS 2584 01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:35,000 RESOLUTION AND AGREE 2585 01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:36,000 WHOLEHEARTEDLY. 2586 01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:37,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2587 01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:38,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 2588 01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:39,000 THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE 2589 01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:40,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO. 2590 01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:41,000 MR. JORDAN: WE RESERVE. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: HE 2591 01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:42,000 RESERVES. MR. RASKIN. 2592 01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:43,000 MR. RASKIN: I YIELD 45 SECONDS 2593 01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:45,000 TO THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN 2594 01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:46,000 FROM CALIFORNIA, MR. THOMPSON. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2595 01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:48,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR 45 2596 01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:49,000 SECONDS. 2597 01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:54,000 MR. THOMPSON: MR. SPEAKER, THE 2598 01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:55,000 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 2599 01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:57,000 INCITED AN ATTACK AGAINST OUR 2600 01:18:57,000 --> 01:18:58,000 DEMOCRACY. 2601 01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:00,000 FOR MONTHS HINNED UP HIS 2602 01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:02,000 SUPPORTERS WITH LIES -- GINNED 2603 01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:04,000 UP HIS SUPPORTERS WITH LIES 2604 01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:06,000 ABOUT THE ELECTION AND INCITED 2605 01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:09,000 THEM TO VIOLENCE. HE UNLEASHED A MOB ON THE 2606 01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:10,000 CAPITOL. 2607 01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:11,000 THE PRESIDENT MUST BE HELD 2608 01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:12,000 ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS VIAL 2609 01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:13,000 ATTACK. 2610 01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:16,000 HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING AND 2611 01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:17,000 NOW FIVE PEOPLE ARE DEAD. 2612 01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:20,000 CONGRESS WILL NOT BE 2613 01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:21,000 INTIMIDATED. 2614 01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:23,000 AMERICA WILL NOT SUCCUMB TO MOB 2615 01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:27,000 RULE. THE VICE PRESIDENT CAN INITIATE 2616 01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:28,000 REMOVAL OF THE PRESIDENT WHO'S 2617 01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:29,000 UNFIT FOR OFFICE AND THIS 2618 01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:31,000 PRESIDENT IS UNFIT. 2619 01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:33,000 WE MUST -- HE MUST BE REMOVED. 2620 01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:36,000 I URGE A YES VOTE ON THIS 2621 01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:38,000 RESOLUTION AND I URGE A YES 2622 01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:39,000 VOTE ON IMPEACHMENT TOMORROW. 2623 01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:40,000 AND I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF 2624 01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:41,000 MY TIME. 2625 01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:42,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 2626 01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:43,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 2627 01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:45,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND RESERVES. 2628 01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:46,000 DO YOU RESERVE? 2629 01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:47,000 MR. RASKIN: WE HAVE ONE LAST 2630 01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:49,000 SPEAKER. IS THE GENTLEMAN PREPARED TO 2631 01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:50,000 CLOSE? 2632 01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:51,000 MR. JORDAN: I'M PREPARED TO 2633 01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:54,000 CLOSE. 2634 01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:55,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2635 01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:56,000 GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO IS 2636 01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:57,000 RECOGNIZED. MR. JORDAN: I THOUGHT HE HAD 2637 01:19:57,000 --> 01:19:58,000 ONE LAST SPEAKER. 2638 01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:00,000 MR. RASKIN: WE'LL GO AFTER YOU. 2639 01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:02,000 WE'LL CLOSE ON MY SPEAKER. 2640 01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:04,000 MR. JORDAN: OK, OK. 2641 01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:07,000 THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. 2642 01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:09,000 WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CAPITOL ON 2643 01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:11,000 JANUARY 6 WAS AS WRONG AS WRONG 2644 01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:13,000 CAN BE. IT'S NOT WHAT AMERICA IS ABOUT. 2645 01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:14,000 AND WE CONDEMNED THIS VIOLENCE. 2646 01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:16,000 WE COMMEND THE MEN AND WOMEN OF 2647 01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:17,000 THE CAPITOL POLICE FOR THEIR 2648 01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:19,000 BRAVERY AND WE MOURN THE LOSS 2649 01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:21,000 OF THOSE LIVES THAT WERE TAKEN 2650 01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:23,000 LAST WEEK. 2651 01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:24,000 REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN 2652 01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:25,000 CONSISTENT. 2653 01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:26,000 WE CONDEMNED THE VIOLENCE LAST 2654 01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:27,000 SUMMER. 2655 01:20:27,000 --> 01:20:29,000 WE CONDEMNED THE VIOLENCE LAST 2656 01:20:29,000 --> 01:20:31,000 WEEK. 2657 01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:33,000 DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN CONSISTENT 2658 01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:34,000 ABOUT ONE THING. 2659 01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:37,000 THEIR ENDLESS QUEST TO OVERTURN 2660 01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:39,000 THE 2016 ELECTION. 2661 01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:40,000 THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO 2662 01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:42,000 OVERTURN THE 2016 ELECTION 2663 01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:45,000 AFTER THE 2020 ELECTION. 2664 01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:47,000 THIS HAS BEEN AN OBSESSION WITH 2665 01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:48,000 YOU GUYS. 2666 01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:50,000 AND THE FIRST ROUND, THE FIRST 2667 01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:52,000 IMPEACHMENT, BASED ON THE 2668 01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:53,000 UNANIMOUS WHISTLEBLOWER THAT 2669 01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:54,000 THE COUNTRY COULDN'T -- YOU 2670 01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:55,000 TRIED TO REMOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP 2671 01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:57,000 FROM OFFICE BASED ON A GUY WE 2672 01:20:57,000 --> 01:20:59,000 WEREN'T EVEN ALLOWED TO SEE 2673 01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:01,000 KNOW WHO HE OR SHE WAS, 2674 01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:03,000 COULDN'T CROSS EXAMINE. 2675 01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:04,000 A WHISTLEBLOWER WITH NO 2676 01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:05,000 FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE, WHO WAS 2677 01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:06,000 BIASED AGAINST THE PRESIDENT 2678 01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:07,000 AND WHO WORKED INTERESTINGLY 2679 01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:09,000 ENOUGH, FOR JOE BIDEN. 2680 01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:12,000 SO CONTINUING THIS QUEST IS NOT 2681 01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:13,000 , AS HAS BEEN SAID SO MANY 2682 01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:15,000 TIMES ON THE FLOOR TONIGHT NOT 2683 01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:16,000 WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS. 2684 01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:18,000 NOT WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS, 2685 01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:19,000 PARTICULARLY AFTER THE YEAR THE 2686 01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:22,000 COUNTRY HAS LIVED THROUGH. 2687 01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:24,000 SO I HOPE WE WILL NOT VOTE FOR 2688 01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:26,000 THIS. THAT THIS THING WILL GO DOWN 2689 01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:28,000 AND I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO 2690 01:21:28,000 --> 01:21:30,000 VOTE AGAINST THE RESOLUTION 2691 01:21:30,000 --> 01:21:31,000 SPONSORED BY THE GENTLEMAN FROM 2692 01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:32,000 MARYLAND. 2693 01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:33,000 WITH THAT, WE YIELD BACK. 2694 01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:34,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2695 01:21:34,000 --> 01:21:35,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 2696 01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:36,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. MR. RASKIN. 2697 01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:37,000 MR. RASKIN: MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD THE REMAINDER OF MY TIME 2698 01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:39,000 WHICH I THINK IS 47 SECONDS, TO 2699 01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:40,000 THE DISTINGUISHED CHAIRMAN OF 2700 01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:42,000 THE AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE, MR. 2701 01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:43,000 SCOTT OF GEORGIA. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2702 01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:44,000 GENTLEMAN FROM GEORGIA IS 2703 01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:46,000 ALLOWED 37 SECONDS -- 30 2704 01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:50,000 SECONDS TO CLOSE. 2705 01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:51,000 MR. SCOTT: WELL THANK YOU FOR 2706 01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:52,000 THAT MR. SPEAKER. 2707 01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:55,000 BUT THIS, WHAT WE'RE DISCUSSING 2708 01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:58,000 TONIGHT, ISN'T ABOUT US. 2709 01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:01,000 IT'S ABOUT THE WILL OF THE 2710 01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:04,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE. 2711 01:22:04,000 --> 01:22:05,000 THEY'RE BROKENHEARTED. 2712 01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:07,000 THEY'RE CRYING. 2713 01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:09,000 THEY'RE DISCOURAGED. 2714 01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:12,000 AND THE OVERWHELMING NUMBER OF 2715 01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:14,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT THIS 2716 01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:19,000 PRESIDENT OUT OF OFFICE NOW. 2717 01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:22,000 THIS IS WHY WE GOT TO DO IT NOW 2718 01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:23,000 . 2719 01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:25,000 WE GOT TO HEAL THE WOUNDS. 2720 01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:28,000 THE LONGER THAT PRESIDENT IS 2721 01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:31,000 OVER THERE, THE MORE WE'RE 2722 01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:33,000 TEARING THE HEART AND SOUL OUT 2723 01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:37,000 OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 2724 01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:38,000 LET US DO IT NOW. 2725 01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:39,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2726 01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:43,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIR 2727 01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:48,000 >> THE HOUSE VOTED TO 23-205 TO 2728 01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:53,000 APPROVE THE RESOLUTION, FORMALLY 2729 01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:54,000 CALLING ON VICE PRESIDENT PENCE 2730 01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:56,000 TO INVOKE THE 25TH AMENDMENT TO 2731 01:22:56,000 --> 01:22:57,000 REMOVE PRESIDENT FROM OFFICE. 2732 01:22:57,000 --> 01:22:59,000 THE CONGRESSMAN OF ILLINOIS WAS 2733 01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:01,000 THE ONLY REPUBLICAN TO VOTE FOR 2734 01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:02,000 THE RESOLUTION. 2735 01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:05,000 THE HOUSE CONSIDERS ARTICLES OF 2736 01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:06,000 IMPEACHMENT AGAINST PRESIDENT 2737 01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:07,000 TRUMP WEDNESDAY AT 9:00 A.M. 2738 01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:09,000 EASTERN. 2739 01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:14,000 >> THE HOUSE RETURNS WEDNESDAY 2740 01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:15,000 AT NINE :00 A.M. EASTERN TO 2741 01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:16,000 DEBATE THE IMPEACHMENT 2742 01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:18,000 RESOLUTION AGAINST PRESIDENT 2743 01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:20,000 TRUMP, FOLLOWING THE JANUARY 6 2744 01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:23,000 ATTACKS ON THE U.S. CAPITOL. 2745 01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:25,000 TUESDAY, MEMBERS DEBATED AND 2746 01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:26,000 APPROVED A RESOLUTION URGING 2747 01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:28,000 MIKE PENCE TO INVOKE THE 25TH 2748 01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:30,000 AMENDMENT TO REMOVE PRESIDENT 2749 01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:31,000 TRUMP FROM OFFICE. 2750 01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:32,000 THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS SENT A 2751 01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:34,000 LETTER TO THE SPEAKER, ASKING 2752 01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:36,000 THAT THE HOUSE NOT GO THROUGH 2753 01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:37,000 WITH THE RESOLUTION. 2754 01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:39,000 WHEN MEMBERS RETURN ON WEDNESDAY 2755 01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:41,000 THEY WILL CONSIDER THE RULES FOR 2756 01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:42,000 DEBATING THE IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION. 2757 01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:46,000 ONCE THOSE RULES ARE PASSED, 2758 01:23:46,000 --> 01:23:47,000 THEY WILL DEBATE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AND HOLD A FINAL 2759 01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:49,000 VOTE. 2760 01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:50,000 LIVE COVERAGE OF THE U.S. HOUSE 2761 01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:51,000 CONTINUES LIVE AT 9:00 A.M. 2762 01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:55,000 EASTERN ON C-SPAN. 2763 01:23:55,000 --> 01:24:00,000 >> C-SPAN'S WASHINGTON JOURNAL 2764 01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:01,000 EVERY DAY WE ARE TAKING YOUR 2765 01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:03,000 CALLS LIVE ON THE AIR ON THE 2766 01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:04,000 NEWS OF THE DAY. 2767 01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:06,000 WE WILL DISCUSS POLICY ISSUES 2768 01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:08,000 THAT IMPACT YOU. 2769 01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:09,000 WEDNESDAY MORNING, A DISCUSSION 2770 01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:11,000 ABOUT THE HOUSE IMPEACHMENT VOTE 2771 01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:12,000 AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR HIS 2772 01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:14,000 ROLE IN THE ATTACK ON CAPITOL 2773 01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:15,000 HILL, WITH DEMOCRATIC 2774 01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:20,000 CONGRESSMAN AL GREEN IN UTAH'S 2775 01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:21,000 REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JOHN 2776 01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:24,000 CURTIS. WATCH WASHINGTON JOURNAL LIVE AT 2777 01:24:24,000 --> 01:24:25,000 7:00 EASTERN WEDNESDAY MORNING 2778 01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:27,000 AND JOINED THE DISCUSSION WITH 2779 01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:28,000 PHONE CALLS, FACEBOOK COMMENTS 2780 01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:33,000 TEXT MESSAGES AND TWEETS. 2781 01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:53,000 >> WITH THE VOTES IN THE 2020 2782 01:24:53,000 --> 01:24:55,000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION NOW 2783 01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:57,000 COUNTED AND CONFIRMED BY 2784 01:24:57,000 --> 01:24:58,000 CONGRESS, ATTENTION TURNS TO THE 2785 01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:01,000 INAUGURATION OF THE 46TH 2786 01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:04,000 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 2787 01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:05,000 ON JANUARY 20, JOE BIDEN AND 2788 01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:08,000 KAMALA HARRIS TAKE THE OATH OF 2789 01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:11,000 OFFICE AS PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. 2790 01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:13,000 LIVE COVERAGE BEGINS JANUARY 20 2791 01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:14,000 AT 8:00 EASTERN. 2792 01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:17,000 WATCH LIVE ON C-SPAN AND WATCH 2793 01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:18,000 ON DEMAND AT C-SPAN.ORG OR 2794 01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:19,000 LISTEN WITH THE FREE C-SPAN 2795 01:25:19,000 --> 01:25:24,000 RADIO APP. 2796 01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:29,000 >> YOU ARE WATCHING C-SPAN YOUR 2797 01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:32,000 UNFILTERED VIEW OF GOVERNMENT. 2798 01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:34,000 C-SPAN WAS CREATED BY AMERICA'S 2799 01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:36,000 CABLE TELEVISION COMPANY IN 2800 01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:38,000 1979. 2801 01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:41,000 TODAY, IT IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY 2802 01:25:41,000 --> 01:25:42,000 THESE TELEVISION COMPANIES WHO 2803 01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:43,000 PROVIDE C-SPAN TO VIEWERS AS A 2804 01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:46,000 PUBLIC SERVICE. 2805 01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:51,000 >> TONIGHT, THE HOUSE RULES 2806 01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:53,000 COMMITTEE DEBATED A RESOLUTION 2807 01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:55,000 TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR 2808 01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:57,000 HIS ALLEGED ROLE IN THE JANUARY 2809 01:25:57,000 --> 01:25:59,000 6 ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPITOL. 2810 01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:02,000 THE RESOLUTION