[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 14 (Monday, January 25, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E67-E68]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

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                         HON. CAROLYN BOURDEAUX

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, January 25, 2021

  Ms. BOURDEAUX. Madam Speaker, I teach a class called Public Service 
and Democracy where often I point out that our democracy is not self-
executing, it requires people of good faith and ethics to make it work.
  Our President and those who enable him are not operating in good 
faith. I come from Georgia, one of the most contested states during 
this election cycle and I'm no stranger to fighting for voting rights 
or concerns about election results.
  I've fought for years to protect our elections in Georgia and expand 
access to the ballot box--so I know a thing or two about free and fair 
elections.
  Let's be clear: Georgia's elections were administered by Republicans 
who themselves voted for and campaigned for President Trump. So if 
there was fraud, I'm sure they would have found it. At the request of 
the President and his surrogates, Republicans have looked high and low 
for voter fraud and have found nothing.
  Georgia officials, at significant cost to the taxpayers I might add, 
have counted the five million votes in Georgia three times, once by 
hand, and only found minor errors that would not change the outcome of 
the election.
  They have audited 15,000 voter signatures and again only found the 
most trivial of problems, and nothing that would indicate voter fraud.

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  They have investigated every charge, every conspiracy with diligence 
and have come up with nothing.
  The idea that Georgia's vote was illegitimate is a lie. There is no 
way around it.
  But the President didn't like the results, so he tried to extort, 
bully, and threaten our Secretary of State to change the election 
results. Now, we actually have attempted election fraud--but from our 
President. And we have his conversation on tape.
  When his plan to solicit fraud failed, the President then incited a 
violent mob on the basis of lies to come to the Capitol and try to 
disrupt the constitutionally required certification of the election. 
This was a mob with zip tie handcuffs, tactical military gear, and 
weapons. A mob that hung a noose on the mall for Vice President Mike 
Pence. Then as the Capitol Police made desperate pleas for the 
deployment of the national guard to help respond to the insurrection, 
their request was denied by the President.
  A democracy requires people of good faith and ethics to make it work. 
I ask my colleagues to reject the lies and to support the article of 
impeachment against President Donald Trump.

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