[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 155 (Wednesday, September 25, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5673-S5674]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, yesterday evening, Speaker Pelosi 
announced that the House of Representatives will begin what she called 
``an official impeachment inquiry.'' But, really, we know that House 
Democrats have been indulging their impeachment obsession for nearly 3 
years now--a never-ending impeachment parade in search of a rationale.
  The very day President Trump was inaugurated, the Washington Post ran 
a news story with this headline: ``The campaign to impeach President 
Trump has begun.'' That was the day of his inauguration. Later that 
year, there were articles of impeachment introduced over the 
President's language. So clearly, this has been an ongoing project for 
House Democrats since practically the moment that Secretary Clinton 
lost the election.
  For months, Democrats insisted that Special Counsel Mueller's 
investigation or the work of the Senate Intelligence Committee would 
prove their theories about a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and 
Russia. It didn't happen. The facts disappointed them, but the 
impeachment parade kept marching along.
  Yesterday, even though a bipartisan committee investigation into the 
new whistleblower allegations is underway--and just hours after the 
President offered to publicize the details of his phone call with the 
President of Ukraine--the dam finally broke. Speaker Pelosi couldn't 
hold back the far left any longer. Before any of us even had the facts 
in hand, she caved to the left and announced an impeachment inquiry.
  If this all sounds familiar, that is because at the time--literally, 
1 week ago--the same Democrats were shouting about impeaching Justice 
Kavanaugh. That rush to judgment was based on a sketchy story in a 
major newspaper that promptly had to publish an enormous correction. 
But 1 week later, here they go again, threatening impeachment without 
the facts in hand.
  Senate Republicans support the established proper procedures for 
considering this whistleblower report. In the meantime, while our 
friends across the Capitol rush to judgment and dive

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deeper into their nearly 3-year-old impeachment addiction, we will stay 
focused on the American people's business.

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