[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 167 (Tuesday, October 22, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H8375]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                IMPEACHMENT SAD ACT OF POLITICAL THEATER

  (Mr. CLINE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLINE. Madam Speaker, time and again my colleagues on the other 
side of the aisle have made it clear that this impeachment process is 
nothing but a sad act of political theater.
  The impeachment of a President, the attempt to insert the U.S. 
Congress between the American people and the President they elected 3 
years ago, the attempts by this House leadership to prevent the 
American people from making their choice in the election next November, 
this is a serious matter and must not be abused as a tool for partisan 
gain or advantage in the next election.
  I have witnessed Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, as a proud 
member of that committee, repeatedly fail to find evidence to support a 
case for impeaching this President.
  Now, in the realization of this fact and at the expense of 
fundamental fairness and due process, the Speaker has removed any 
further investigation from the Judiciary Committee so that impeachment 
can be conducted in secret and out of public view--no vote to proceed, 
no public hearings, no access to testimony, no ability to call 
witnesses.
  This is a sham, and the American people won't have it any longer.

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