[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 4, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H757]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    CONGRESS SHOULD GET BACK TO WORK

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow will be the culmination of a very 
predictable series of events.
  There were never 67 votes to convict the President. There was never 
any bipartisan support for impeachment. This contrived process was 
never going to be successful, and everybody knew it.
  When House Democrats, first in a hurry in December to get the 
articles through, and then after a month's delay sent the articles over 
to the Senate, they claimed their case was compelling and overwhelming, 
yet their case had zero actual evidence and was made only of opinion or 
speculation or third-hand comments.
  Then the Democrat impeachment managers asked for more witnesses in 
order to prove their case that they had rushed through the House. Pure 
hypocrisy. The same has surrounded this entire so-called process.
  From quid pro quo to extortion to bribery, they have continuously 
grasped for straws--the same straws they try to ban in California, by 
the way--that would make their narrative more compelling.
  Here we are, over 4 months since this inquiry was announced, yet they 
found not a way to convince Americans that the President has committed 
an actual crime.
  Once the Senate votes to acquit the President, we must get back to 
work and do actual things.

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