[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H571]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        QUESTIONS TO THE SENATE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Green) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. GREEN of Texas. And still I rise, Mr. Speaker, and I rise today 
because I have a question. I have a question for posterity. I have a 
question for those who reside and dwell within the Senate. I have a 
question, but I also have a predicate for the question.
  The predicate is this: Knowing what you know, knowing that the 
National Security Advisor was in the room with the President, knowing 
that he has indicated that there were concerns within him with 
reference to the President's dealings with other countries, heads of 
state, knowing that he took his consternation to the Attorney General 
of the United States of America, knowing that the Attorney General 
expressed some concerns as well, knowing what you know, that the 
National Security Advisor, not just another person in the room but the 
person who advises the President on concerns with reference to our 
security, knowing this, how can you possibly thwart efforts to have the 
National Security Advisor give testimony before the Senate in the 
impeachment trial?
  I have another question. This question is one for eternity.
  Knowing that the hands of history are writing your legacy, knowing 
that future generations, that your grandchildren, that the people who 
will look to you for leadership will read what the hands of history 
will record, knowing that history will afford you the opportunity to be 
on the right side, the right side of history, how can you possibly 
decide that you will conduct yourself in a trial for the ages such that 
history will record that you were on the wrong side of history?
  My dear friends, this is bigger than you. It is bigger than all of 
us. This is about the country we love and government we have.
  We have a great opportunity to do justice in the Senate, and the only 
way we can do justice is to have witnesses testify.
  I said before that I believe that there would be 51 Senators who 
would vote to have witnesses. Today, I am absolutely confident that 
there will be 51 or more Senators who will move to have witnesses 
present themselves and give testimony. To do otherwise would allow the 
greatest country in the world to have history record that, when we had 
the opportunity to stand up for the Constitution, some of us turned our 
backs and looked the other way.
  This is your time, Senate. This is your time, Members of the great 
deliberative body. I beg that you will do what you must and have 
witnesses present themselves so that we will have history record that 
we did the right and just thing.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Carson of Indiana). Members are reminded 
to address their remarks to the Chair, not to a perceived viewing 
audience.

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