[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 40 (Wednesday, March 6, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H2373]
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, with love of 
country in my heart.
  And still I rise, as I did some 659 days ago, more than 21 months, 
when I first stood on the floor of the House of Representatives and 
called for the impeachment of the President. In so doing, I had to fend 
off the multitudes who wanted to know what crime the President had 
committed, what law did he break.
  We had to fight that fight, and we won, because it is now generally 
perceived and believed that the President does not have to commit a 
crime to be impeached.
  In fact, Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United 
States of America addresses that question when it deals with high 
crimes and misdemeanors as misdemeanors or misdeeds, pursuant to the 
understanding that we have of the Constitution of the United States of 
America.
  And still I rise now, understanding that we have had to fend off 
those who have said: You have to wait for the Mueller report. You have 
to wait. Why not wait?
  Here is why you don't have to wait: Because the Mueller report is 
dealing with violations of the law. Misdeeds don't necessarily require 
a violation of the law.
  If you are corrupting society, if you are creating harm to society, 
if you are causing things to happen in society that are unacceptable to 
the people in the United States of America, an unfit President can be 
impeached for those misdeeds that corrupt and harm society.
  We are winning that fight. This fight is one that is easily won 
because, as we proceed, it is going to become intuitively obvious that 
these misdeeds are the problems, and the misdeeds are creating the 
concerns in society.
  It is my belief that we have a duty, a responsibility, and an 
obligation under the Constitution to deal with an unfit President.
  There are those who would want me to withhold my thoughts until after 
there has been an investigation, when we have clear and convincing 
evidence before our very eyes of the misdeeds: separating babies from 
their mothers, who happen to be of color, I might add; talking about s-
hole countries that happen to be where people of color live, I might 
add; talking about good people, or very fine people, in 
Charlottesville, among those who are bigots, racists, xenophobes, 
homophobes, and Islamophobes.
  Yes, the evidence is there, because the President was putting in his 
policies these bigoted statements. These statements went beyond his 
words. They became a part of his policies. For this, he can be 
impeached.
  I stand where I stood 659 days ago, and I will continue to stand 
until this President is removed from office.
  We can investigate to the extent that we engage in what Dr. King 
called the paralysis of analysis, just investigate until it is time for 
another election, and then the election becomes the focal point.
  My dear friends, my dear brothers and sisters, those who desire to 
wait may do so. I will not wait. Impeachment is not dead.

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