[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 120 (Wednesday, July 17, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H5973-H5974]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           RAISING A QUESTION OF THE PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE

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

                              H. Res. 498

       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 to ensure the 
     blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity as lauded 
     in the preamble to the United States Constitution, is unfit 
     to protect the government of the people, by the people, for 
     the people as elucidated in the Gettysburg Address, and is 
     impeached for high misdemeanors 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, 
     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.
       The House of Representatives on July 16, 2019, strongly 
     condemned President Donald Trump's racist comments that have 
     legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans 
     and people of color by saying that our fellow Americans who 
     are immigrants, and those who may look to the President like 
     immigrants, should ``go back'' to other countries, by 
     referring to immigrants and asylum seekers as invaders,'' and 
     by saying that Members of Congress who are immigrants, or 
     those of our colleagues who are wrongly assumed to be 
     immigrants, do not belong in Congress or in the United States 
     of America.
       In all of this, the aforementioned Donald John Trump has, 
     by his statements, brought the high office of the President 
     of the United States in contempt, ridicule, disgrace, and 
     disrepute, has sown seeds of 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.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The resolution qualifies.


                            Motion to Table

  Mr. McCARTHY. Madam Speaker, I have a motion to table the articles of 
impeachment at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion.
  The Clerk read as follows:
       Mr. McCarthy moves to lay the resolution on the table.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to lay the 
resolution on the table.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mr. McCARTHY. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 332, 
nays 95, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 4, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 483]

                               YEAS--332

     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Allen
     Allred
     Amash
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Axne
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blunt Rochester
     Bost
     Brady
     Brindisi
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carbajal
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten (IL)
     Castor (FL)
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Chu, Judy
     Cisneros
     Cleaver
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyburn
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comer
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cook
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cox (CA)
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Curtis
     Davids (KS)
     Davidson (OH)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Rodney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Emmer
     Eshoo
     Estes
     Ferguson
     Finkenauer
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flores
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx (NC)
     Frankel
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Gianforte
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Golden
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Gooden
     Gosar
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Haaland
     Hagedorn
     Harder (CA)
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Heck
     Hern, Kevin
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill (AR)
     Hill (CA)
     Himes
     Holding
     Hollingsworth
     Horn, Kendra S.
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Huizenga
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Khanna
     Kilmer
     Kim
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster (NH)
     Kustoff (TN)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamb
     Lamborn
     Langevin
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lesko
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Marshall
     Massie
     Mast
     McAdams
     McBath
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McEachin
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meadows
     Meeks
     Meuser
     Miller
     Mitchell
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Morelle
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Mullin
     Murphy
     Neal
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunes
     O'Halleran
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Phillips
     Porter
     Posey
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Riggleman
     Roby
     Rodgers (WA)
     Roe, David P.
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Rose (NY)
     Rose, John W.
     Rouda
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shalala
     Sherrill
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spano
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stevens
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Suozzi
     Takano
     Taylor
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Timmons
     Tipton
     Torres Small (NM)
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Upton
     Van Drew
     Veasey
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Watkins
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Wright
     Yarmuth
     Yoho
     Young
     Zeldin

                                NAYS--95

     Adams
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brown (MD)
     Butterfield
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Castro (TX)
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cohen
     Davis, Danny K.
     Dean
     DeGette
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Engel
     Escobar
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fudge
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Gomez
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Higgins (NY)
     Huffman
     Jackson Lee
     Jayapal
     Johnson (TX)
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kirkpatrick
     Larsen (WA)
     Lawrence
     Lee (CA)
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lieu, Ted
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey

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     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neguse
     Norcross
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Pressley
     Raskin
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Scott, David
     Sherman
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Trahan
     Vargas
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

     DeFazio
       
       

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Abraham
     Gabbard
     Hudson
     Walker

                              {time}  1738

  Mr. THOMPSON of California, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, and Ms. WILSON of 
Florida changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Ms. KAPTUR, Messrs. TAYLOR and HASTINGS 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.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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