[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 157 (Friday, September 27, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H8075-H8076]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 FRUITLESS INVESTIGATIONS INVOLVING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

  (Mr. MEUSER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MEUSER. Madam Speaker, I rise to reflect on what could have been 
accomplished in the past 9 months on this House floor.
  The list is staggering: border security and illegal immigration 
reform; lower drug costs and lower premiums and deductibles for 
families; correcting surprise billing; making the middle class tax cut 
permanent; passing a robust infrastructure transportation bill; 
promoting free, fair, and reciprocal trade globally; and passing the 
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement and other America-first, but not-
America-alone, trade agreements, which will grow our domestic industry 
and agricultural exports.
  Democrat leadership has, however, wasted the last 9 months focused on

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fruitless investigations aimed at relitigating the 2016 Presidential 
election. Every one of these investigations has produced the same 
result: nothing.
  The majority party has wasted its own time and, much more seriously, 
the time of the people who sent us here.
  House Democrats are now grasping at one last desperate effort: an 
impeachment inquiry over a baseless, secondhand account. This farce, 
which chooses to push a presumption of guilt where evidence is 
nonexistent, is nothing short of a constitutional embarrassment for our 
country.
  May God continue to bless the United States of America.

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