[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 164 (Thursday, October 17, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H8208-H8209]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY

  (Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to shed light on 
House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, a scheme that has been devised in 
the dark.
  From day one of this Congress, my colleagues have sought to use their 
new majority to undermine President Trump every step of the way. The 
majority has chosen to break precedent and deprive Republicans of the 
ability to do our job.
  Today, I went down to the SCIF to read the classified Volker 
testimony for myself, and, sadly, I was turned away. It is remarkable 
that elected officials have been blocked from reading material, parts 
of which have already been leaked to the press in selective and 
incomplete pieces. Simply, this is wrong.
  The House of Representatives has been reduced to obsessing over a 
perpetual Ground Hog Day cycle of relitigating the 2016 election.
  For the sake of our Nation, it is time to remove what the obstacles 
we face

[[Page H8209]]

are and return to our constitutional duty of being legislators.

                          ____________________