[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 173 (Thursday, October 31, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H8682]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      PHONY IMPEACHMENT INQUIRIES

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, today we will vote on a resolution that 
will somehow try to legitimize the last 5 weeks' worth of phony 
impeachment inquiries going on downstairs in a secure room.
  Instead of voting on and taking up the issues that matter to the 
American people, we continue to chase this witch hunt trying to take 
down the accomplishments of our President, Donald J. Trump. Indeed, the 
economy we have, the low unemployment we have, and the success we are 
having in the Middle East and other areas around the world aren't good 
enough.
  When my colleagues on the other side of the aisle admit that they 
probably won't win another election and they have to try to use the 
impeachment process to try to take the President down, that shows how 
phony this process is.
  So to try today to pass a resolution to somehow legitimize the last 
5-plus weeks' worth of work and, indeed, really 2\1/2\ years' worth of 
attacking this President shows that this place has a misplaced set of 
priorities.
  Instead of doing the work of the American people, they are using this 
as a political process to attack what we have all been able to 
accomplish.

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