[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 4 (Wednesday, January 9, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H291]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        IMPEACHMENT IS NOT DEAD

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Green) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. GREEN of Texas. Madam Speaker, and still I rise. I rise, Madam 
Speaker, on behalf of Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution.
  I rise, Madam Speaker, on behalf of the more than 40 percent of 
people in this country who believe that an unfit President ought to be 
impeached. I rise on behalf of the many people who believe that somehow 
the voices of those who favor impeachment have been muted.
  And I want you to know, Madam Speaker, and to those who are 
listening, I want you to know that there is at least one person in the 
Congress of the United States of America who believes that an unfit 
President ought to be impeached.
  I rise on behalf of those, Madam Speaker, who believe that if 
President Barack Obama had behaved the way the current President has 
behaved, he would have been impeached. I rise to take a stand on behalf 
of the many who believe in impeachment of an unfit President. More than 
40 percent of this country believes it. More than 80 percent, 
thereabout, of Democrats believe it.
  And I rise on behalf of the many people who understand that there is 
a humanitarian crisis at the border, the many people who believe that 
babies ought not be confined in small, confined places where they have 
to trip over each other if they want to traverse from one side of the 
room to the other. These are babies. I rise on behalf of these babies.
  And I rise on behalf of the many people who believe that if these 
babies were White babies, the response would be vastly different. We 
know that we would not tolerate what is happening in this humanitarian 
crisis if these were not people of color. We wouldn't tolerate it if 
they were White. We ought to treat all babies the same. We know that 
this President is a bigot, and we know that this policy at the border 
is rooted in bigotry.
  Madam Speaker, I want you to know that this will not be my last time 
standing in the well of the Congress to deal with this issue. Let 
others do what they may; take on the issues that you choose; but know 
that I believe an unfit President ought to be impeached, and we ought 
not have a double standard such that we treat people of color 
differently from the way we treat people not of color. And that is what 
is happening right now at this border.
  If they were coming in from the north and they were White, the 
reaction wouldn't be the same. The fervor would be greater. The demand 
for justice would be greater.
  We have to take a stand against bigotry. We cannot allow it to 
continue to grow in this country. We are the place where the President 
is to be brought before the bar of justice. Only the House of 
Representatives can do it.
  And I declare this day that impeachment is not dead.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from 
engaging in personalities toward the President.

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