[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 173 (Thursday, October 31, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H8704-H8705]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                        SOVIET-STYLE IMPEACHMENT

  (Mr. KELLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KELLER. Madam Speaker, last week I joined several dozen of my 
colleagues at the SCIF in protest of the secret impeachment inquiry.
  Seventy-five percent of the elected Members of Congress have been 
shut out of this impeachment inquest. This whole inquiry is a sham led 
by the Speaker of this House and her impeachment czar, the chairman of 
the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
  Their attempt today to try and open these proceedings is nothing 
short of Soviet glasnost--a fake transparency that only leads to less 
participation, more secrecy, and less due process.
  Madam Speaker, this is too little too late. You can't unring the bell 
on this sham process that is your high watermark in seeking to undo the 
2016 election at all costs.
  Case in point: while saying there will be a resolution to try and 
bring transparency to these proceedings, this inquiry has continued to 
take depositions in secret. Democrats in this Chamber have been acting 
like bank robbers after they have tripped an alarm and they are trying 
to shove as much money in the bag as they can before the police get 
there.

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  We demand due process.

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