[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 12 (Friday, January 19, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H569-H571]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           RAISING A QUESTION OF THE PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE

  Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Madam Speaker, I rise to a question of the 
privileges of the House and offer the resolution previously noticed.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the resolution.
  The Clerk read as follows:

                              H. Res. 705

 Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, of high 
                             misdemeanors.

       Resolved, That Donald John Trump, President of the United 
     States, is unfit to be President, unfit to represent the 
     American values of decency and morality, respectability and 
     civility, honesty and propriety, reputability and integrity, 
     is unfit to defend the ideals that have made America great, 
     unfit to defend liberty and justice for all as extolled in 
     the Pledge of Allegiance, is unfit to defend the American 
     ideal of all persons being created equal as exalted in the 
     Declaration of Independence, is unfit to ensure domestic 
     tranquility, promote the general welfare and secure the 
     blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity as lauded 
     in the preamble to the United States Constitution, is unfit 
     to protect government of the people, by the people, for the 
     people as elucidated in the Gettysburg Address, and is 
     impeached for high misdemeanors, and that the following 
     article of impeachment be exhibited to the Senate:
        Article of Impeachment exhibited by the House of 
     Representatives of the United States, in the name of itself 
     and of the people of the United States, against Donald John 
     Trump, President of the United States, in maintenance and 
     support of its impeachment against him for high misdemeanors 
     committed as President constituting harm to American society 
     to the manifest injury of the people of the United States:


                               article i

       In his capacity as President of the United States, 
     unmindful of the high duties of his high office, of the 
     dignity and proprieties thereof, and of the harmony, and 
     respect necessary for stability within the society of the 
     United States, Donald John Trump has with his bigoted 
     statements done more than simply insult individuals and 
     groups of Americans, he has harmed the American society by 
     attempting to convert his bigoted statements into United 
     States policy and by associating the presidency and the 
     people of the United States with bigotry on one or more of 
     the following occasions:
       On January 27, 2017, Donald John Trump issued Executive 
     Order 13769 providing for a partial shutdown of immigration 
     from mainly Muslim countries to fulfill a bigoted campaign 
     promise that read as follows: ``DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT ON 
     PREVENTING MUSLIM IMMIGRATION (New York, NY) December 7th, 
     2015--Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete 
     shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our 
     country's representatives can figure out what's going on,'' 
     thereby attempting to convert a bigoted campaign promise into 
     United States policy, associating the presidency and the 
     people of the United States with bigotry, thereby casting 
     contempt upon Muslims, inciting hate and hostility, and 
     sowing discord among the people of the United States on the 
     basis of religion.
       On July 26, 2017, Donald John Trump made a public statement 
     substantially as follows: After consulting with my Generals 
     and military experts, please be advised that the United 
     States Government will not accept or allow Transgender 
     individuals to serve in

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     any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be 
     focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be 
     burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption 
     that transgender in the military would entail, thereby 
     attempting to convert his bigoted statement into United 
     States policy, associating the presidency and the people of 
     the United States with bigotry, thereby casting contempt on 
     transgender individuals, inciting hate and hostility, and 
     sowing discord among the people of the United States on the 
     basis of gender.
       On August 15, 2017, Donald John Trump made a widely-
     published statement characterizing a group of anti-Semites, 
     bigots, racists, white nationalists, and Ku Klux Klansmen who 
     rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, as ``very fine 
     people,'' thereby associating the presidency and the people 
     of the United States with bigotry.
       On October 7, 2017, hate groups returned to 
     Charlottesville, Virginia, at the statue of Robert E. Lee, 
     the Confederate general, chanting ``You will not replace 
     us!'' after having chanted in their August Charlottesville 
     rally that ``Jews will not replace us!''. Since this event on 
     October 7, the President has made widely-published statements 
     about many issues, including the National Football League, 
     but has not made one widely-published statement condemning 
     the hate groups for returning to the place where an innocent 
     person lost her life at the hands of hate.
       On January 11, 2018, Donald John Trump held a meeting with 
     a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders that focused 
     primarily on legislation that would provide a statutory 
     protected status for individuals brought to the United States 
     without documentation. At this meeting, as has been widely-
     published, Donald John Trump made references to people from 
     s-h-i-t-h-o-l-e (or s-h-i-t-h-o-u-s-e) countries. He also 
     questioned why we need more Haitians or people from African 
     countries, proclaiming that we should take them out. Donald 
     John Trump then suggested that Norwegians were better suited 
     to be immigrants to this country, thereby casting contempt on 
     citizens and noncitizens who were welcomed here by previous 
     Presidents due to natural disaster and civil unrest, thereby 
     attempting to convert his bigoted statements into United 
     States policy, associating the presidency and the people of 
     the United States with bigotry, inciting hate and hostility, 
     and sowing discord among the people of the United States on 
     the basis of national origin.
       In all of this, the aforementioned Donald John Trump has, 
     by his statements, brought the high office of President of 
     the United States in contempt, ridicule, disgrace and 
     disrepute, has sown discord among the people of the United 
     States, has demonstrated that he is unfit to be President, 
     and has betrayed his trust as President of the United States 
     to the manifest injury of the people of the United States, 
     and has committed a high misdemeanor in office.
       Therefore, Donald John Trump by causing such harm to the 
     society of the United States is unfit to be President and 
     warrants impeachment, trial, and removal from office.

                              {time}  1045

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The resolution presents a question of 
privilege.


                            Motion to Table

  Mr. McCARTHY. Madam Speaker, I move to lay the resolution on the 
table.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to table.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and 
nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, this 15-
minute vote on the motion to lay the resolution on the table will be 
followed by 5-minute votes on:
  Passage of H.R. 4712, and
  Agreeing to the Speaker's approval of the Journal, if ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 355, 
nays 66, answered ``present'' 3, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 35]

                               YEAS--355

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Bacon
     Banks (IN)
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (MD)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comer
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cook
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crist
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Curtis
     Davidson
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Demings
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Donovan
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Dunn
     Emmer
     Eshoo
     Estes (KS)
     Esty (CT)
     Farenthold
     Faso
     Ferguson
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flores
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Frelinghuysen
     Gabbard
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Gallego
     Garrett
     Gianforte
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gottheimer
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guthrie
     Hanabusa
     Handel
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Himes
     Holding
     Hollingsworth
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Khanna
     Kihuen
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger
     Knight
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster (NH)
     Kustoff (TN)
     Labrador
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     Lawson (FL)
     Levin
     Lewis (MN)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham, M.
     Lujan, Ben Ray
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Marino
     Marshall
     Massie
     Mast
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McEachin
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Meng
     Messer
     Mitchell
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Neal
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nolan
     Norman
     Nunes
     O'Halleran
     O'Rourke
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Panetta
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pittenger
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Posey
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Renacci
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney, Francis
     Rooney, Thomas J.
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rosen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce (CA)
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Russell
     Rutherford
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Sewell (AL)
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Soto
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Suozzi
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Taylor
     Tenney
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Tonko
     Torres
     Trott
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Wasserman Schultz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Welch
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Zeldin

                                NAYS--66

     Adams
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Brady (PA)
     Butterfield
     Capuano
     Carson (IN)
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cohen
     DeSaulnier
     Doggett
     Ellison
     Engel
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Frankel (FL)
     Garamendi
     Gomez
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hastings
     Higgins (NY)
     Huffman
     Jackson Lee
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kelly (IL)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Lewis (GA)
     Lieu, Ted
     Lowenthal
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Moore
     Moulton
     Napolitano
     Norcross
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Raskin
     Richmond
     Rush
     Schakowsky
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Vargas
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Walz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Wilson (FL)

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--3

     Castro (TX)
     Shea-Porter
     Veasey

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Arrington
     Cummings
     Davis, Danny
     Fudge
     Reichert
     Scalise

                              {time}  1116

  Mses. CLARKE of New York and VELAZQUEZ changed their vote from 
``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Ms. MATSUI, Mr. THOMPSON of California, Ms. ESHOO, Messrs. McKINLEY, 
SMUCKER, Ms. KAPTUR, Messrs. RYAN of Ohio, LYNCH, MEEKS, and BEN RAY 
LUJAN of New Mexico changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the motion to table was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

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  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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