[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 3 (Tuesday, January 7, 2020)]
[House]
[Pages H5-H6]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               TRANSMIT ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT TO SENATE

  (Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask the 
Democratic leadership to answer the question from my constituents as to 
why the Articles of Impeachment were not yet transmitted to the Senate.
  It was urgent enough to have the first-ever partisan articles pass 
this institution almost 3 weeks ago but not urgent enough to follow our 
Constitution by walking them from this House, out that door, through 
Statuary Hall, under the Capitol dome, and to the Senate floor.
  It will take only a matter of minutes to get them there, and it will 
codify the first-ever partisan impeachment process in our Nation's 
history.

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  History will not judge this process and this impeachment favorably. 
If you don't like who gets elected, work to elect someone else.
  Instead, Democrats will ask themselves years from now, ``Why did we 
allow partisanship and hatred of this President to change history and 
precedent?'' when this institution is paralyzed by future partisan 
impeachments of duly elected Presidents of both parties.

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