[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 181 (Wednesday, November 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S6574]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              IMPEACHMENT

  Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, on a different topic, I come to the 
floor today to discuss the Democrats' partisan campaign against 
President Trump.
  The Democrats have been obsessed with impeaching him since day one of 
his Presidency, and I absolutely mean day one. As the President was 
taking the oath of office, sworn in to the Presidency, the Washington 
Post ran this headline: ``The campaign to impeach President Trump has 
begun.'' It was posted, actually, at 12:18, the day he took the oath of 
office. The minute he took the oath of office, that headline was 
posted.
  So 3 years have passed, and impeachment is still taking up all the 
Democrats' time, all their efforts, and all their energy. They are 
fixated on it, and they are obsessed with it. As a doctor, in my 
opinion, the Democrats have a bad case of impeachment fever, and it 
seems that there is no cure for them.
  We all know that Democrats deeply dislike this President. They have 
from the moment he was elected in November 2016. Let me ask you: Does 
that mean they get to overturn the last election? That is what they are 
trying to do, not to mention interfere with the upcoming election. That 
is really what it is--a bitterly partisan process.
  Remember, it is being controlled by one political party. This is 
totally partisan, and up to now, at least it has been conducted, prior 
to today, in total secret, in the cellar, behind closed doors, and in 
the shadows. That is the way they have done it. It is not a fair 
process--no transparency and no accountability.
  I think President Trump has a right to be treated fairly, yet his 
rights have been completely ignored. The process, in my opinion, is 
rigged against the President. The outcome is predetermined and fixed. 
The Democratic House wins; the American public loses.
  Democrats are so obsessed, they can't work. The people elected them 
to do a job, to work for them, and they are nowhere to be found. The 
Democrats, for example, will not pass defense funding, funding our 
military, protecting our borders, protecting our Nation, and they will 
not approve trade deals or lower drug costs. They will not even help 
fix our aging roads and bridges.
  Well, that is all bad news for the American people. All of this is 
tied up in the impeachment obsession that is grinding the Democrats in 
the House to a halt. The good news is, Republicans are highly resistant 
to this fever, and so are most Americans.
  We are not going to join the Democrats' impeachment campaign. 
Republicans prefer to work on the issues we were elected to address--
jobs, the economy, national security--and we are going to continue to 
work for the people who elected us.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Jersey.

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