[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 167 (Tuesday, October 22, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H8380]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  2015
                         PIED PIPER IMPEACHMENT

  (Mr. BACON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr BACON. Madam Speaker, since President Trump was elected, Democrats 
have been pushing impeachment. For 2 years, the current chairman of the 
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence told us he had the 
smoking gun on collusion. The Mueller report showed the opposite, and 
then the chairman was not forthcoming regarding his staff's 
communications with the whistleblower. There is no credibility here.
  The partisan impeachment effort has led to secret hearings, the 
minority Congress is not allowed to bring in witnesses, and the 
President is denied representation--violating all previous precedence 
in this House.
  Americans demand fairness.
  There have been no high crimes or misdemeanors, and hatred for the 
President is not grounds for impeachment. Voters decided the winner in 
2016 and will do so again in 2020.
  America's business is not getting done while the Democratic 
leadership is playing the pied piper and marching America off the 
impeachment cliff.

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