[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 21, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H3013-H3022]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           RAISING A QUESTION OF THE PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE

  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I call up the privileged resolution noticed 
earlier today.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the resolution.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 521

       Whereas the allegation that President Donald Trump colluded 
     with Russia to interfere in the 2016 Presidential election 
     has been revealed as false by numerous in-depth 
     investigations, including the recent report by Special 
     Counsel John Durham, which documents how the conspiracy 
     theory was invented, funded, and spread by President's 
     Trump's political rivals;
       Whereas Representative Adam Schiff, who served as ranking 
     minority member and then Chairman of the Permanent Select 
     Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives 
     (the ``Intelligence Committee''), occupied positions of 
     extreme trust, affording him access to sensitive intelligence 
     unavailable to most Members of Congress;
       Whereas, for years, Representative Schiff abused this trust 
     by alleging he had evidence of collusion that, as is clear 
     from reports by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Department of 
     Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, and Special 
     Counsel Durham, never existed;
       Whereas, for years, Representative Schiff has spread false 
     accusations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia;
       Whereas, on March 20, 2017, Representative Schiff 
     perpetuated false allegations from the Steele Dossier 
     accusing numerous Trump associates of colluding with Russia 
     into the Congressional Record;
       Whereas, once again abusing his privileged access to 
     classified information, Representative Schiff released a memo 
     justifying the accuracy of the Foreign Intelligence 
     Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant application on Trump 
     associate Carter Page, of which was later found by Inspector 
     General Horowitz to have 17 major mistakes and omissions, 
     provoking FISA Court Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer to 
     state unequivocally that the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
     ``misled the FISC'';
       Whereas, as ranking minority member and Chairman of the 
     Intelligence Committee, Representative Schiff behaved 
     dishonestly and dishonorably on many other occasions, 
     including by publicly, falsely denying that his staff 
     communicated with a whistleblower to launch the first 
     impeachment of President Trump;
       Whereas, as part of his impeachment efforts, during a 
     hearing on September 26, 2019, Representative Schiff misled 
     the public by reading a false retelling of a phone call 
     between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr 
     Zelensky;
       Whereas, on March 28, 2019, every Republican member of the 
     Intelligence Committee signed a letter calling for 
     Representative Schiff's immediate resignation as Chairman;
       Whereas Representative Schiff hindered the ability of the 
     Intelligence Committee to fulfill its oversight 
     responsibilities over the Intelligence Community, an 
     indispensable pillar of our national security; and
       Whereas these actions of Representative Schiff misled the 
     American people and brought disrepute upon the House of 
     Representatives: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That--
       (1) the House of Representatives censures Adam Schiff, 
     Representative of the 30th Congressional District of 
     California, for misleading the American public and for 
     conduct unbecoming of an elected Member of the House of 
     Representatives;
       (2) Representative Adam Schiff will forthwith present 
     himself in the well of the House of Representatives for the 
     pronouncement of censure;
       (3) Representative Adam Schiff will be censured with the 
     public reading of this resolution by the Speaker; and
       (4) the Committee on Ethics shall conduct an investigation 
     into Representative Adam Schiff's falsehoods, 
     misrepresentations, and abuses of sensitive information.

                              {time}  1400

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The resolution qualifies.


                            Motion to Table

  Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The clerk will report the motion.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Ms. Clark of Massachusetts moves to lay the resolution on 
     the table.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to table.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 208, 
noes 218, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 276]

                               AYES--208

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                               NOES--218

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)

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     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Hinson
     Issa
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Meng
     Posey
     Pressley
     Williams (TX)

                              {time}  1407

  So the motion to table was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated for:
  Ms. PRESSLEY. Mr. Speaker, I was unable to physically record my vote 
on the motion to table H. Res. 521. Had I been present, I would have 
voted ``aye'' on rollcall No. 276.
  Stated against:
  Mrs. HINSON. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been 
present, I would have voted ``no'' on rollcall No. 276.


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, I was unable to attend votes due to ongoing 
treatment from my recent cancer diagnosis. Had I been present, I would 
have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 274, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 275, 
and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 276.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Crawford). Pursuant to clause 2 of rule 
IX, the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Luna) and the gentleman from 
Maryland (Mr. Raskin) each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Florida.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, Americans do not trust Congress. From the highest levels 
of office, an elected Member of this body enabled the fraudulent 
spending of $32 million out of the pockets of our American people and 
threw it down the drain to knowingly chase ghosts, all for political 
gain.
  This man occupied a position of the highest trust and authority.
  As Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Schiff 
launched an all-out political campaign built on baseless distortions 
against a sitting U.S. President at the expense of every single citizen 
in this country and the honor of the House of Representatives.
  With access to sensitive information unavailable to most Members of 
Congress, and certainly not accessible to the American people, 
Representative Schiff abused his privileges, claiming to know the 
truth, while leaving Americans in the dark about this web of lies. 
These were lies so severe that they altered the course of the country 
forever: the lie that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to 
steal the 2016 Presidential election revealed to be completely false by 
numerous investigations, including the Durham report; the lie that the 
Steele dossier--a folder of falsified and since completely debunked 
collusion accusations funded by the Democratic Party--had any shred of 
credibility, yet Representative Schiff read it into the Congressional 
Record as fact; the lies concocted and compiled in a false memo that 
was used to lie to the FISA court, to precipitate domestic spying on 
U.S. citizen, Carter Page, violating American civil liberties.
  Not only was this an egregious abuse of Representative Schiff's 
privileged access to classified information, but this memo was littered 
with 17 major mistakes and omissions. The groundless memo violated 
Carter Page's civil liberties, publicly assassinated his character, and 
subjected him to multiple, abusive, unlawful investigations.
  Representative Schiff exploited his position as Chair of the Intel 
Committee at every opportunity possible, threatening national security, 
undermining our duly-elected President, and bringing dishonor upon the 
institution. Perhaps most unforgivable, Representative Schiff ripped 
apart American families across the country with repeated false 
narratives.
  His own political good was served by permanently destroying family 
relationships and sowing lasting division across our land, which we 
live with every single day.
  The perpetrators of this web of deceit became mainstays on cable 
news, waking up every morning with one goal: to lie, lie, lie to the 
American people that there was direct evidence of a Russia collusion.
  Despite transcripts from Representative Schiff's investigation 
showing that the Director of National Intelligence, former Obama 
Attorney General, former Deputy Attorney General, and FBI Director, to 
name a few, went on record telling Representative Schiff's committee 
that there was no direct evidence for his criminal conspiracy, yet to 
this day, Representative Schiff actively fundraises off of his 
exploitation of Americans, as if robbing them from the truth and $32 
million in taxpayer dollars is not enough.

                              {time}  1415

  Can anyone in this Chamber comprehend this list of crimes and yet 
somehow believe there should not be an answer for it?
  This is not a partisan act. This is not a conservative versus liberal 
vote. This is a clear vote between right and wrong, and I urge my 
colleagues to do the right thing.
  I will end with repeating what I started with. The American people do 
not trust Congress. The cyclical pattern of lies has worn down the 
credibility of every institution and every official in the United 
States Government. You see it. I see it.
  If we run away from this opportunity to hold this man accountable, 
there is only one fault and that is of ourselves. We will betray the 
people who trusted us and sent us here to do the right thing. We will 
be responsible for the end of any shred of justice in this body. We 
will reject the duty that we swore an oath to protect upon taking 
office.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Today, we meet not to lower the costs of prescription drugs, nor to 
expand President Biden's infrastructure plan, nor to protect the voting 
rights of the people, nor to protect the healthcare choices of women 
across America because we know they are definitely not interested in 
that. No, we meet, rather, for another stop on the GOP's endless 
revenge tour against Democrats who dared to tell the truth about Donald 
Trump and his repeated sellouts and betrayals of the American people 
over the last 6 years.
  It is all about Donald Trump tightening his stranglehold over 
Republicans for the 2024 campaign and driving out anyone who dares to 
think for himself or herself.
  Don't take my word for it. Just read Friday's statement by the twice-
impeached inciter of insurrection, sexual abuser, defamer of women, and 
indicted pilferer of national security secrets, war plans, and top-
secret classified documents himself. On Friday, Trump posted this order 
to his followers in this unveiled threat to anyone who would dare to 
defy his control over the GOP: ``Any Republican voting against [Adam 
Schiff's] censure, or worse, should immediately be primaried.''
  The Luna resolution is a weapon of mass distraction from Trump's 
indictment by a Florida grand jury on 37 Federal charges relating to 
obstruction and unlawful retention of defense information for storing 
dozens of classified, secret, and top-secret documents at his Florida 
resort in his bathroom, his bedroom, and beyond, and then refusing 
repeatedly for more than a year to return any of these official 
documents to the National Archives and the FBI.
  It is amazing to me that they have to change the subject from one of 
Donald Trump's current offenses against America to one of his older 
offenses, welcoming Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential 
campaign.
  Russia repeatedly intervened in the 2016 campaign to help Donald 
Trump, and that is not a matter of opinion. That is a question of 
direct, positive fact.
  Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the former FBI Director whose report 
is cited authoritatively by Mrs. Luna, found right at the beginning of 
his report that ``the Russian Government interfered in the 2016 
Presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.''
  Here is what the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and the Office of the 
Director of

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the National Intelligence found in 2017: ``Russian President Vladimir 
Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. 
Presidential election.''
  The Mueller investigation and the Moscow Project documented more than 
250 episodes of collaboration and meetings between Russia and the Trump 
campaign, including Paul Manafort's repeated passing of campaign 
secrets, such as polling data, to Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian agent, 
and the infamous meeting on June 9, 2016, at Trump Tower led by Donald 
Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
  Senator Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican, stated that the U.S. 
Senate bipartisan Select Committee on Intelligence ``found irrefutable 
evidence of Russian meddling'' in the American campaign.
  The Mueller report, if you read it, makes no pronouncement on 
collusion, the punitive crux of the distinguished gentlewoman's 
complaint, because, as Mueller writes, ``collusion'' is not a legal 
offense or a legal concept.
  The whole question of Trump's collusion with Russia is in the realm 
of opinion, and most Americans would see a lot of collusive activity, 
all the way up to the present day when Donald Trump refuses even to 
take the side of the Ukrainian people against Vladimir Putin's filthy, 
bloody, imperialist invasion of their country, which has been filled 
with lies, atrocities, and war crimes.
  In any event, we don't censure Members over a difference of opinion.
  Mr. Speaker, we are seeing the complete ethical collapse of a once-
great political party. The Republican Party began as a pro-freedom, 
antiracist, pro-immigrant, anti-Know-Nothing party. It has become an 
authoritarian cult of personality taking orders from an inciter of 
insurrection, bully, and braggart whose rage toward Mike Pence and 
whose spectacular disrespect for the rule of law endangered not only 
our entire constitutional order but everyone in this room. The party of 
Lincoln and his Lincolnites has become the party of Luna and her Luna 
followers.
  Today's madcap antics are an obvious deflection from Trump's 
deepening legal troubles. His allegedly criminal conduct in pilfering, 
hoarding, and refusing to return national security documents has caused 
his own Attorney General, William Barr, to say that: ``Trump's conduct 
is indefensible. . . . He is not a victim here. He was totally wrong.'' 
And, ``There is no excuse for what he did here.''
  Yesterday, Representative Boebert offered a resolution of impeachment 
against President Biden. The GOP simply has no ideas for our economy, 
no ideas for our country, and no ideas for our people but is on an 
embarrassing revenge tour on behalf of Donald Trump, who treats them 
like a ventriloquist dummy.

  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Tennessee (Mr. Ogles).
  Mr. OGLES. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague and dear friend, 
Congresswoman Luna, for leading the charge to hold our Democrat 
counterparts responsible for their gross misuse of power.
  Adam Schiff abused his power as chairman of the House Intelligence 
Committee to create false narratives that were sold to the American 
people about President Trump. The Mueller report and Durham report both 
proved that the basis for the so-called Russian collusion investigation 
was nonexistent.
  The Representative from California misled the American people and 
compromised the interests of the United States of America in service of 
defeating, persecuting, attacking, and defaming President Donald Trump.
  Mr. Speaker, he was hasty, prejudiced, and wrong. It is clear he was 
concerned for no one but himself and the advancement of the Democratic 
Party's political agenda. Now, $32 million later, the American people 
are left with lies and the obligation to pick up the tab for this 
boondoggle of a political witch hunt.
  The Representative from California prioritized personal political 
gain over the interests of our Nation, and he more than deserves to be 
censured by the people's House.
  The Democratic Party has allowed an invasion on our southern border 
where every small town in America is now a border town. Every one of us 
knows someone who has been poisoned or overdosed because of fentanyl. 
Illegals are raping and killing people across our country. What do they 
do? They claim to have a solution, and they have none.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Schiff).
  Mr. SCHIFF. Mr. Speaker, to my Republican colleagues who introduced 
this resolution, I thank you. You honor me with your enmity. You 
flatter me with this falsehood.
  You, who are the authors of a big lie about the last election, must 
condemn the truthtellers, and I stand proudly before you. Your words 
tell me that I have been effective in the defense of our democracy, and 
I am grateful.
  Yet, this false and defamatory resolution comes at a considerable 
cost to the country and to the Congress. At a moment when many millions 
of people in our home State of California are unable to find a place to 
live or afford a place to live, Speaker McCarthy chooses to occupy the 
resources of Congress for 2 straight weeks on this hollow sop to the 
MAGA crowd. He offers nothing to those who are homeless or addicted to 
opioids, or to millions of college students mired in debt, but this 
paltry distraction.
  Donald Trump is under indictment for actions that jeopardize our 
national security, and McCarthy would spend the Nation's time on petty 
political payback, thinking he can censure or fine Trump's opposition 
into submission.
  But I will not yield, not one inch.
  The cost of the Speaker's delinquency is high, but the cost to 
Congress of this frivolous and yet dangerous resolution may be even 
higher, as it represents another serious abuse of power.
  Donald Trump has threatened that any of you who defy him and vote 
against this partisan resolution will be met by a primary challenge.
  He calls for my imprisonment. If a transient majority can punish and 
attempt to silence Members who hold a corrupt President to account, 
there is no telling what further corruption of office will follow.
  I say this to Speaker McCarthy and others who wish to gratify Donald 
Trump with this act of subservience or bend to his demands: Try as you 
might to expel me from Congress or silence me with a $16 million fine, 
you will not succeed. You might as well make it $160 million. You will 
never deter me from doing my duty.
  No matter how many false justifications or slanders you level against 
me, you but indict yourselves. As Liz Cheney said: ``There will come a 
day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.''
  This resolution attacks me for initiating an investigation into the 
Trump campaign's solicitation and acceptance of Russian help in the 
2016 election, even though the investigation was first led not by me 
but by a Republican chairman.
  It would hold that when you give internal campaign polling data to a 
Russian intelligence operative while Russian intelligence is helping 
your campaign, as Trump's campaign chairman did, that you must not call 
that collusion, though that is its proper name, as the country well 
knows.
  It would fine me for the costs of the critically important Mueller 
investigation into Trump's misconduct, even though the special counsel 
was appointed by Trump's own Attorney General.
  It would reprimand me over a flawed FISA application, as if I were 
its author or I were the Director of the FBI, and over flaws only 
discovered years later and by the inspector general, not Mr. Durham.
  In short, it would accuse me of omnipotence, the leader of some vast 
deep state conspiracy. Of course, it is nonsense.
  Here is the real gravamen of my offense: I led the first impeachment 
of Donald Trump for one of the most egregious Presidential abuses of 
power in our history, and I led a trial which resulted in the first 
bipartisan vote to remove a President in history. I would do so again.
  I warned that if Trump was not held accountable, he would go on to 
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cheat in even worse ways in the next election, and he did, inciting a 
violent attack on this very Capitol.

  After that, I participated in some of the most important hearings in 
congressional history, hearings that exposed Donald Trump's incitement 
of a dangerous insurrection to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
  My colleagues, if there is cause for censure in this House, and there 
is, it should be directed at those in this body who sought to overturn 
a free and fair election.
  The question, my Republican colleagues, is not why I am the subject 
of this false resolution for doing my constitutional duty, but why are 
you not? Why are you not standing beside me, the subject of a similar 
rebuke for speaking the truth?
  Why did you not stand up to Donald Trump? Why did you not reject his 
immortality? Why did you not condemn his dishonesty?
  Why did you not speak out when his horde attacked this Capitol or now 
when he treats the Nation's secrets with such carelessness, 
lawlessness, and disdain? Why did you hide from efforts to hold him 
accountable?
  Why were you silent, afraid, unwilling to do your ethical, 
constitutional duty? Why did you cower? Why did you cower, and why do 
you still?
  Will it be said of you that you lacked the courage to stand up to the 
most immoral, unlawful, and unethical President in history but consoled 
yourselves by attacking those who did?
  Today, I wear this partisan vote as a badge of honor, knowing that I 
have lived my oath, knowing that I have done my duty to hold a 
dangerous and out-of-control President accountable, and knowing that I 
would do so again in a heartbeat if the circumstances should ever 
require it.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks 
to the Chair and not each other in the second person.

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  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Illinois (Mrs. Miller).
  Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I thank Mrs. Luna for leading 
on this resolution.
  Representative Schiff used his position as the chairman of the House 
Intelligence Committee to mislead the American people by falsely 
claiming that there was classified evidence of Russia colluding with 
President Trump, which was not true.
  The Mueller report and the Durham report make clear that the Russia 
collusion hoax was a political lie designed to hurt President Trump and 
mislead the American people.
  Representative Schiff used the Intelligence Committee to advance a 
political narrative against his political opponents, which violated the 
important nonpartisan tradition of the committee.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to join my colleagues today in holding 
Representative Schiff accountable for his actions because the American 
people deserve justice.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Aguilar), the chairman of the Democratic Caucus and a 
former member of the January 6th Select Committee.
  Mr. AGUILAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to the 
resolution.
  It is shameful that the temporary Republican majority continue to 
waste the American people's time with baseless accusations and 
rightwing conspiracy theories.
  Instead of joining House Democrats to address the gun violence 
epidemic, we are forced to debate on gas stoves and partisan grudges. 
This resolution today is motivated by the same groups and individuals 
who to this day promote the lie that the 2020 election was stolen--a 
lie that Adam Schiff stood up to time and time again.
  I have had the privilege of serving alongside Adam in the California 
delegation and the January 6th Committee. He has never shied away from 
taking on the toughest fights, and he is not going to be intimidated by 
anyone, including the former President or his allies.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to stand with the gentleman from California 
today, and I urge my colleagues to join me in opposition to this 
resolution.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New 
York (Mr. Langworthy).
  Mr. LANGWORTHY. Mr. Speaker, in this body we are privileged to serve 
our districts and do right by the American people. We have been 
entrusted with a tremendous responsibility that shapes the future of 
our Nation.
  First and foremost, we must remember that we are not here to serve 
our own interests or pursue personal agendas.
  Unfortunately, one of the most powerful members of the Democratic 
Caucus, Adam Schiff, abused his role and violated the trust of the 
American people. As chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, 
Schiff initiated an unfounded investigation into the leftist lies 
around Russian collusion.
  This investigation was predicated on nothing more than political 
propaganda. The Durham report clearly shows that the Russia hoax was 
manufactured by the left to divide our Nation and discredit and derail 
President Trump's agenda.
  He not only wasted countless hours of committee work, but he also 
wasted nearly $32 million in taxpayer dollars.
  Schiff repeatedly used the authority he was afforded in his position 
as chairman to lie to the American people to support his political 
agenda. Even after the Durham report discredited the Russia hoax, he 
continued to knowingly lie and peddle this false narrative.
  These actions leave a real and lasting stain on this institution. We 
cannot allow Representative Schiff to continue to serve in this body 
with no consequences for the abuse of his power.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this resolution and to 
send a clear message to the American people that we will hold Members 
of Congress accountable.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New 
York (Mr. Jeffries), the minority leader and a member of the first 
House impeachment team.
  Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentleman for 
yielding and for his leadership.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to this fake, phony, 
and fraudulent censure resolution brought against Adam Schiff, the 
distinguished gentleman from the great State of California.
  House Democrats will continue to put people over politics, to fight 
for lower costs, better-paying jobs, safer communities, defend 
democracy, fight for freedom, and build an economy that invests and 
grows the middle class.
  This is a do-nothing Republican-controlled Congress, that is why this 
censure resolution is on the floor today. Extreme MAGA Republicans have 
no vision, have no plan, and have no agenda to make life better for 
everyday Americans.
  House Democrats will continue to work for the people. Clearly, as 
this resolution demonstrates, extreme MAGA Republicans work for the 
twice-impeached, disgraced former President of the United States of 
America, the insurrectionist in chief, the extreme puppet master, who 
clearly ordered that this fake, phony, and fraudulent resolution be 
brought to the floor today after it failed last week.
  In fact, the supreme puppet master even threatened the other side of 
the aisle with primaries if they didn't bend the knee. When he says, 
``bend the knee,'' extreme MAGA Republicans say, ``how high.''
  Adam Schiff has done nothing wrong. Adam Schiff is a good man. Adam 
Schiff has served this country with distinction. Adam Schiff served 
this country well as a Federal prosecutor, fighting to keep communities 
safe. Adam Schiff served this country well as the chair of the House 
Intelligence Committee, investigating people without fear or favor, 
including those at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue because he believes in the 
Constitution and his oath of office.

  Adam Schiff served his country well as the lead impeachment manager 
during the first impeachment trial of the former President of the 
United States, prosecuting his corrupt abuse of power. Yes, Adam Schiff 
served this country well in the aftermath of the violent insurrection. 
He pushed back against the big lie told by the puppet master in chief 
and participated as a prominent member of the January 6th Committee to 
defend our democracy.

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  Adam Schiff has done nothing wrong. He has worked hard to do right by 
the American people. The extreme MAGA Republicans have no vision, no 
agenda, and no plan to make life better for the American people, so we 
have this phony, fake, and fraudulent censure resolution.
  Adam Schiff will not be silenced. We will not be silenced. House 
Democrats will not be silenced today. We will not be silenced tomorrow. 
We will not be silenced next week. We will not be silenced next month. 
We will not be silenced next year. We will not be silenced this decade. 
We will not be silenced this century. You will never ever silence us.
  We will always do what is right. We will always fight for the 
Constitution, fight to defend democracy, fight for freedom, expose 
extremism, and continue America's long, necessary, and majestic march 
toward a more perfect Union.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' against this phony, 
fake, and fraudulent censure resolution.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from South 
Carolina (Mr. Norman).
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Speaker, I proudly stand with Congresswoman Luna to 
back this censure of a man that has been long overdue. I am glad the 
galleries are now open where people can see firsthand that you cannot 
get up in front of Congress or the American people and completely deny 
the truth and continue to spread falsehoods.
  There is no TV that could have been turned on over the last couple of 
years when you didn't see Adam Schiff being questioned: Where is your 
evidence on the Russia collusion? Where is it?
  He couldn't answer it. It was always coming.
  He used his position on the Intel Committee--and for those of you who 
are listening, it is information we don't get as regular 
Congresspeople. He used his position on the Intel Committee to spread 
continuous lies with no facts. How did he do that?
  He had access not only to the most sensitive information, he also did 
not share the access or facts that backed what he was saying. The 
trusted and sensitive position was abused by Congressman Schiff to 
weave purposeful falsehoods around the Russia collusion.
  The Mueller report and the Durham report make clear that the 
foundations of his investigations were bogus. It showed that the 
Director of National Intelligence, a former Obama Attorney General, 
former Deputy Attorney General, and the FBI Director, among others, all 
told his committee there was no direct evidence of criminal conspiracy. 
Yet, he kept making the statements that his evidence was coming, and it 
just never did.
  Not only did he spread falsehoods that abused his power, he went 
after a man, Carter Page, who was completely innocent. Inspector 
General Horowitz found 17 major mistakes.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from South Carolina.
  Mr. NORMAN. Inspector General Horowitz later found 17 major mistakes 
and omissions, which provoked the FISA court presiding judge, Rosemary 
Collyer, to state unequivocally that the FBI misled FISA.
  The public smearing of Carter Page as a Russian collaborator, and 
justification of spurious investigations of him were carried out with 
Representative Schiff's contribution. This is a violation of American 
civil liberties, and it is the very abuse that should not be warranted 
in Congress.
  All this to spend $32 million on an investigation that went nowhere. 
It is an insult to the American people. The American people deserve 
better.
  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate Congresswoman Luna bringing this up. Words 
have actions. Just because they continue to say it, does not make it 
true. That is the case of what Adam Schiff has done.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Quigley).
  Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, I had the honor of serving with the 
gentleman from California on the House Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence for 8 years. I had an in-the-ring view of his work.
  Obviously, it is not what Mr. Schiff did that was wrong, it is what 
he did so well. That is what bothers the majority. He defended our 
country from threats, foreign and domestic. He defended the rule of 
law. He defended our democracy at one of its most critical and pivotal 
points. He held the ethically and legally challenged former President 
accountable.
  What really gnaws on the majority and what really bothers them is 
that Mr. Schiff was way better than anybody on their team at debate, at 
leadership, at messaging, and at legal knowledge. He kicked their ass. 
He was better, he was more effective, and that still bothers them.
  They couldn't beat him on the field, so they voted him off. We voted 
people off committees because they posted threats, not because they 
can't compete.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from 
profanity in their remarks.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Virginia (Mr. Good).
  Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from 
Florida for her leadership.
  Mr. Speaker, I am sorry to report to my friends on the other side 
that we are not voting today on whether or not to censure President 
Trump, but one Adam Schiff.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this censure resolution. Adam 
Schiff has denigrated the office which he holds, and the standards of 
this very body. The American people, when they elect their 
Representatives, place trust in them that they will act with honesty 
and integrity.
  Adam Schiff had access to our Nation's secrets and then intentionally 
created a web of lies, falsely alleging his tales of foreign 
interference and Russia collusion. He perpetrated blatant falsehoods, 
publicly, loudly, and repeatedly to the American people.

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  How many times did we hear him claim that he had seen evidence of 
Russian collusion?
  He betrayed the trust of the American people. This resolution will 
censure Schiff for his gross abuse of power using his position as 
chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to 
access our Nation's most sensitive information to then mislead the 
American people and his colleagues here in this Congress.
  The other side often speaks of decorum and holding up the integrity 
of this body. Now it is time for them to put their actions to their 
words.
  Will they continue to support the lies promoted by the Congressman 
from California, or will they vote in favor of maintaining the 
integrity of this distinguished body?
  I challenge them to vote today for integrity, to vote for truth, and 
to vote to censure Adam Schiff in this House.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Goldman).
  Mr. GOLDMAN of New York. Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished 
gentleman from Maryland for yielding.
  Boy, is Adam Schiff powerful. He can, at once, be the chairman of the 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the special counsel 
investigating Donald Trump, manage and run the FBI, and be a judge 
ruling on FISA applications. It is remarkable that he from his perch in 
Congress can do all of that.
  Of course, he didn't do any of that. All he did was properly impeach 
the President of the United States for his gross abuse of power.
  Mr. Speaker, do you want to talk about collusion?
  Let me ask my Republican colleagues: If a campaign manager for a 
campaign is giving internal information to a Russian intelligence 
agent, is that collusion?
  Because that was the once-classified information that is now public 
and now constitutes collusion. There are so many other issues. There is 
nothing in this resolution that is true.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 20 seconds to the 
gentleman.
  Mr. GOLDMAN of New York. Mr. Speaker, one of my colleagues said that 
we will hold Members accountable.
  The Republicans are the party of George Santos.

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  Whom are they holding accountable?
  The guy is an alleged and acknowledged liar and indicted, and the 
Republicans protect him every day.
  Mr. Speaker, don't lecture us with your projection and your defense 
of Donald Trump. It is pathetic, it is beneath you, and it is beneath 
this body.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. McClintock).
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, I opposed the original version of this 
resolution, not to defend Mr. Schiff's lies, but to defend the process 
that exposed those lies. We must never punish speech in this House, 
only acts. The only way to separate truth from falsehoods or wisdom 
from folly is free and open debate. We must never impose excessive 
fines that would effectively replace the constitutional two-thirds vote 
for expulsion with a simple majority.
  This new version removes the fine and focuses instead on specific 
acts, most particularly the abuse of his position as Intelligence 
Committee chairman by implying he had access to classified information 
that did not exist and his placement into the Congressional Record of 
the Steele dossier that he knew or should have known was false.
  I hope, however, that we will hereafter return to the principles of 
due process that the Democrats stripped from our precedents in the last 
session.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished 
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lofgren).
  Ms. LOFGREN. Mr. Speaker, I could go point by point and prove that 
the resolution is false, but time is short. I will just say: Adam tells 
the truth.
  He told the truth when we were managers on the first impeachment that 
resulted in a bipartisan vote for conviction.
  He told the truth when we served on the January 6 Committee and found 
that the ex-President was the leader of a plot to overturn the 
Constitution and the electoral vote.
  Why is this before us today?
  The truth hurts, doesn't it?
  I think it is before us today because the ex-President has recently 
been charged with dozens of felonies.
  I am a former chair of the Ethics Committee. This resolution is a 
departure from what has been the norm in the Congress in terms of 
censure. Not only does this resolution disgrace the MAGA Republicans 
who advanced it, but it also disgraces this institution.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Colorado (Mrs. Boebert).
  Mrs. BOEBERT. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague, Anna Paulina Luna, 
for leading on this very important issue.
  Adam Schiff is a complete disgrace to our Nation and to our 
Constitution. He put the American people through 4 years of an endless 
impeachment hoax that he knew from the beginning was a lie. He 
represents the worst of permanent Washington, using his position of 
trust to lie to the American people.
  He received intelligence briefings that other Members and the public 
did not have access to. He used this position of trust to lie and to 
advance his own partisan agenda. Schiff's disgraceful time in Congress 
has destroyed Americans' faith in our institutions.
  Today, I am proud to stand with my colleague and friend from Florida, 
Anna Paulina Luna, to try to undo some of the damage that Adam Schiff 
has done by finally holding this crook accountable.
  Today, we are saying that enough is enough by censuring him and 
referring him to the Ethics Committee.
  He told the American people that he had proof that the Trump campaign 
asked the Russians for help in a conspiracy. That was a lie.

  He claimed that he was not working with anonymous informants during 
the impeachment hoax. That was a lie.
  Everyone with common sense knew that Adam Schiff was lying all along, 
including the Director of Intelligence, Obama's former Attorney 
General, the FBI deputy director, and more. However, Adam Schiff 
doubled down on his big lie claiming he had a smoking gun proof of a 
conspiracy, but the only conspiracy going on was his conspiracy to 
defraud the American people by taking down their duly elected 
President.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 2\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Colorado.
  Mrs. BOEBERT. When Adam Schiff got caught lying, he did what all 
liars do and tried to cover the truth even more. He even used his 
taxpayer-funded staff to ask Twitter to censor journalists fact-
checking his lies, but Adam Schiff won't get out of this one by calling 
in a favor. Today, we are holding him accountable and censuring him for 
his lies to the American people.
  In order to restore the trustworthiness of the House of 
Representatives, every Member should vote to censure Adam Schiff so 
that we can speak with one voice to assure the American people that 
these lies will not be tolerated.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge every one of my colleagues with good and decent 
intention to vote for this resolution.
  If Adam Schiff has a shred of human decency left, he would resign 
from Congress in disgrace. His tombstone should read of his failed 
career in Congress and should be one word: liar.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished 
gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Himes).
  Mr. HIMES: Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Maryland for 
yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I just heard the gentleman from Virginia say that this 
is not a censure of Donald Trump, and he is right about that, and, boy, 
is he right about that because there is no behavior--not a discussion 
of how he would handle women, not an attack on this Capitol, and not 
the misuse of classified information--that will ever result in a peep 
from the Republican majority much less a censure of that behavior. This 
is a question of standing, Mr. Speaker, amongst other things, if that 
is what you stand upon.
  As my colleagues pointed out, we don't hear anything about a 
colleague whose entire campaign and entire resume was built on 
falsehood. Instead, we hear that Russia was a hoax.
  Mr. Speaker, I was there. The investigation began by a Republican 
chairman. All these investigations were predicated on the fact that a 
Donald Trump foreign policy aide told the Australian ambassador that 
they were expecting dirt from the Russians.
  The most important thing I can say is that I sat next to Adam Schiff 
for years. He is a man of integrity and dignity. This vote, quite 
frankly, Mr. Speaker, is a testament to your dignity or lack thereof.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Georgia (Ms. Greene).
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, there are a lot of things that 
happen here in Congress that waste the American people's hard-earned 
tax dollars, but one of the most outrageous wastes of hard-earned 
taxpayer dollars has been the Russian collusion hoax led by Adam 
Schiff.
  Adam Schiff lied to American people by leading the fake Russian witch 
hunt against President Trump. He weaponized the House Intelligence 
Committee to abuse all principles of due process and perpetuate the 
lies of Russian collusion, and he did that in the media over and over 
again.
  His committee conducted approximately 53 interviews during its 2017-
2018 Russia probe. These transcripts from the Director of National 
Intelligence, former Obama Attorney General, former Deputy Attorney 
General, and the FBI director, among others, proved that there was zero 
direct evidence of criminal conspiracy.
  He not only refused to release these interview transcripts, but he 
also continued to peddle lies to the American people that Russia 
interfered in the elections.
  He falsely claimed that Russians offered help, that the campaign 
accepted help, that the Russians gave help, and that the President made 
full use of that help when referring to allegations between President 
Trump and Russia during the 2016 election.
  In November 2020, he specifically asked Twitter to take action 
against spreaders of misinformation by removing content that questioned 
his baseless claims of Russian collusion. The biggest spreader of 
misinformation was Adam Schiff.
  As we know, the Mueller report determined there was no criminal 
collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Thanks to the Durham 
report, we know now the entire Russian hoax

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was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
  During the probe, Schiff also abused his position on the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence and violated civil liberties by 
subpoenaing phone records from AT&T and a former Republican colleague 
on an entirely baseless claim.
  His lies and abuse of power continued during the sham. During the 
Hollywood-produced January 6 Committee witch hunt, he and his staff 
doctored a text message between Representative   Jim Jordan and former 
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to deliberately manipulate 
information presented to the American people. What a lie.
  He displayed a graphic of a text message which cut a sentence in 
half--in half--and eliminated the final two paragraphs of a detailed 
legal summary that were contained in the original text message.
  He did this to peddle more lies to the American people and to 
perpetuate the fake narrative that January 6 was an insurrection, and 
it was not.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the 
gentlewoman.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, now Adam Schiff is running for 
Senate in California. California has a lot of things messed up, and 
California is not the model that the United States needs. As a matter 
of fact, their government policies are atrocious.
  So if California decides to send Adam Schiff to the Senate, they will 
be sending a proven liar, and that is what he is aiming to do. He is 
raising money off of being a liar and running for Senate.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Swalwell).
  Mr. SWALWELL. Mr. Speaker, this is not a House floor proceeding. This 
is a partners meeting of Insurrection, LLC.
  I ask them to tell me where Adam was wrong.
  He said at the first impeachment: Can we be confident that Donald 
Trump will not continue to try to cheat this 2020 election?
  The answer is: No, we can't.
  We can't trust this President to do the right thing, not for 1 
minute, and not for one election. He will not change, Mr. Speaker, and 
you know it.
  Was he wrong when that President aimed and sent a mob into this 
Chamber and made all of us leave?
  Was he wrong when he said that Donald Trump has betrayed our national 
security and will do so again? Was he wrong when he said that Donald 
Trump stole and shared classified information?
  Was he wrong when he said that?

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  Maybe he was wrong when he said to the country, you are decent. 
Donald Trump is not who you are.
  I ask my colleagues: Are you as indecent as Donald Trump? Will you be 
remembered as footnotes and foot soldiers in history's books that 
chronicle Donald Trump's corruption, or will you be as decent as Adam 
Schiff?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks 
to the Chair.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Mills).
  Mr. MILLS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in favor of H. Res. 521 to censure and 
condemn Congressman Adam Schiff.
  The bottom line is this: Congressman Schiff utilized his position and 
hid behind classifications to mislead the American people.
  He abused his congressional authority and security clearance to push 
his own party's political agenda. This was not meant to be an unbiased 
jurisdiction of change; this was meant to be a political witch hunt.
  When Members are appointed to the select committees on intelligence, 
they are trusted with privileged information. Other Members of the 
House are taking them for their word.
  As someone who has worked within the intelligence community, I can 
tell you that our classifications that were available to take and read 
is not to be abused for our own ulterior motives.
  I hope my colleagues will join Congresswoman Luna to censure and hold 
Congressman Schiff accountable and to put an end to the waste, fraud, 
abuse, and the gross neglect in how we take advantage of the American 
people.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I just want to observe that there are dozens 
of Members on our side who have come to stand with Mr. Schiff, and it 
appears to have been evacuated on the other side. There is nobody 
standing with the Luna resolution.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. 
Garcia).
  Ms. GARCIA of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Adam Schiff is tough. Adam Schiff 
is smart. Adam Schiff gets the job done. Adam Schiff holds the powerful 
accountable.
  That is exactly why we are here today. Extreme MAGA Republicans are 
trying to punish our colleague for doing his job, holding the twice-
impeached, twice-indicted former President accountable.
  The MAGA wing of the Republican Party can't stop Adam. My friend Adam 
Schiff will always fight to defend our democracy. He will always do 
what is right.
  Trump's pals in Congress can create whole committees to defend him. 
They can try threatening outrageous fines. They can try to outright 
waste all of our time trying to prop up a man that has threatened our 
democracy over and over again.
  It is no surprise that former President Donald Trump was in a Miami 
courthouse last week, and we are here today discussing this topic.
  Mr. Speaker, we have to stop enabling this nonsense. When the whole 
House entertains conspiracy theories, nonsense, and political 
vendettas, it is the entire GOP that is responsible.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
Pennsylvania (Ms. Dean), a member of the second House impeachment team.
  Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to 
H. Res. 521 because this is not a serious resolution.
  This is political theater by the author, who clearly was not here, to 
distract from Donald Trump's history of transgressions and now 
indictments. It is also an attempt to punish Congressman Adam Schiff 
for effectively holding Trump to account.
  Congressman Schiff protected us from fascism at home and abroad. 
First, on the so-called perfect call, Donald Trump withheld a meeting 
and crucial weapons from President Zelenskyy to protect Ukraine from 
Russia unless they gave him dirt on now-President Joe Biden.
  Mr. Schiff stepped up as chairman of the Intelligence Committee and 
eventually as lead manager to defend against executive corruption.
  Then, when the former President lost the 2020 election and summoned 
his supporters to storm this very Capitol, Mr. Schiff stood up again on 
the January 6th Committee to expose the former President's grotesque 
role.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 10 seconds to the 
gentlewoman from Pennsylvania.
  Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I don't know why my colleagues 
are so intimidated here, but I think it reveals their weakness.
  They are intimidated by a bully, and this censure attempt reveals 
they are also intimidated by a patriot and the truth. Lucky us to serve 
with Adam Schiff.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Wyoming (Ms. Hageman).
  Ms. HAGEMAN. Mr. Speaker, I take my duties as Wyoming's lone 
congressional Representative very seriously, and my obligation to be 
honest and trustworthy is the foundation of my ability to carry them 
out.
  This privileged resolution isn't about politics. It is about the 
seriousness of being honest and forthright as a Member of Congress and 
upholding the oath of office that we all take upon being sworn in.
  It is true that the gentleman from California wouldn't be the first 
Member of Congress to exaggerate or stretch the truth; however, 
willfully lying about serious issues our country has faced is something 
entirely different and claiming that a sitting President has committed 
what amounts to treason is beyond simple hyperbole.

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  This Member's lies led to the wasting of millions of taxpayer dollars 
for unnecessary investigations and the deflection of our attention from 
the most pressing issues at hand to focus on a made-up crisis.
  This Member's actions were designed to delegitimize the 2016 election 
and to hamstring the Trump administration.

  For all the talk about not accepting the election results in 2020, 
perhaps Democrats and the media, which are mostly one and the same, 
might want to look at their actions in 2016.
  To make matters worse, this Representative perpetuated these lies 
while he was chair of the House Intelligence Committee and consistently 
implied, if not outright stated, that he had inside information.
  In that capacity, he lied about the following:
  How the FBI and DOJ obtained and renewed a FISA warrant; that FBI and 
DOJ officials did not omit material information from the FISA warrant; 
how the DOJ used the Steele dossier; what was collected by the FISA 
warrant; the FBI's vetting process for the Steele dossier; that he had 
an alleged smoking gun showing that President Trump colluded with 
Russia.
  Each of these claims has proven to be false.
  The lies have continued. In fact, they have become compulsive, and 
they continue right through to this very day.
  The lies weaken this body, and if left unchecked, threaten the rule 
of law, our election integrity, and the civil rights of his targets.
  The words and actions of this Member were dangerous and untrue--
knowingly untrue. There must be a serious consequence for that. Being 
censured is the least of what he should be subjected to, and I support 
this resolution.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the distinguished 
gentleman from California (Mr. Mullin).
  Mr. MULLIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to the 
resolution. This latest stunt reeks of partisan politics and does 
nothing but advance an extremist agenda. Worst of all, this resolution 
attacks a great defender of democracy, a Member who is among our best.
  There is a legitimate role for censure in this institution, but the 
majority has debased it and rendered it meaningless in a cheap partisan 
slap. Shameful.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I take a second to thank all of my colleagues from across the aisle 
who have spoken today for putting themselves on the Record defending 
the Russia collusion hoax, even after the Burisma payments to Hunter 
Biden and the big guy have been made public. The Congressional Record 
is a very useful accountability tool.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, they defend the big lie, they defend the 
insurrection, they defend George Santos, but they attack Adam Schiff.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. 
Carson).
  Mr. CARSON. Mr. Speaker, what I do know is that Adam Schiff defended 
the U.S. Constitution. He led an impartial investigation which followed 
the facts and led to the first of two impeachments of a former 
President.
  As a senior member of the Intelligence Committee, I have had the 
honor of working closely with Mr. Schiff for years.
  He is a man of integrity, and he deeply loves this country like we 
all do. I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this dangerous and 
purely vindictive attempt to silence someone because of his work to 
hold Donald Trump accountable.
  I urge my colleagues not to be fooled by these distractions. Don't 
ignore the facts. This resolution is a fig leaf to hide the very clear 
facts about a twice-impeached President, a twice-indicted ex-President 
who has put our national security at risk.
  I urge my colleagues to stop these political games and get back to 
the business of the American people.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), the ranking member of the Rules 
Committee.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, Republicans care more about personal 
vendettas and sucking up to Trump than about doing what is right for 
the country.
  Adam Schiff has been an incredible Member of Congress. He exposed 
Trump's lies and corruption, impeached him, and got a bipartisan 
conviction vote in the Senate. He has passed real and consequential 
laws that solve real problems and help real people.
  What has the sponsor of this censure done? What is Congresswoman 
Luna's record? I want her constituents to know in her congressional 
career, five of the six legislative items she has ever introduced are 
about Adam Schiff. Doesn't she have anything better to do--like, I 
don't know, help her district?
  This is what is known as lunacy, and it is all about deflection, 
retaliation, and distraction from Trump's 37 felony charges.
  The people who came up with the big lie want to censure Adam Schiff 
for telling the obvious truth, all so they can defend a three-time 
loser ex-President who has been indicted more times than he has been 
elected.
  What an embarrassing day for this institution. What an insult to the 
American people. I urge a ``no'' vote, and I stand proudly with 
Congressman Schiff.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member of the Rules 
Committee for those astute remarks. I note that dozens of Members of 
our caucus have come to stand with Mr. Schiff today, while the sponsor 
of this resolution, Mrs. Luna, appears to be completely isolated over 
on her side of the aisle.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I 
remind people that this is on behalf of the American people in 
restoring order to the House and in an effort to bring back trust, 
which is something that this institution has lacked for many years.
  I am very proud and I own my vote in saying that I will be voting for 
the censure of Adam Schiff.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Krishnamoorthi).
  Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI. Mr. Speaker, in reviewing this censure measure, I 
am reminded of Will Rogers' quip: ``I don't make jokes. I just watch 
the government and report the facts.''

  This month, despite the pressing needs of the American people, we 
have spent a week and a half arguing about gas stoves. Next week it 
will be about toaster ovens.
  Today, we are voting on a joke of a measure to censure Adam Schiff, a 
true public servant and patriot. I urge a strong ``no'' against this 
resolution targeting a true American hero.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Colorado (Mr. Crow), a member of the first impeachment team.
  Mr. CROW. Mr. Speaker, here are some facts.
  Fact number one, Donald Trump remains one of the greatest dangers to 
our democracy that we have ever seen, and he is a demagogue.
  Fact number two, demagogues don't like people who call them out, who 
speak the truth, and who pose a threat to their grand designs to 
destroy our democracy.
  Fact number three, I have spent my life serving this country in 
uniform, out of uniform, and I would be hard-pressed to find somebody 
who is more committed to democracy, who has more integrity, and who is 
more committed to the rule of law than Adam Schiff.
  I call on my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to reject this 
absurd proposal, to set yourself free from your servitude of Donald 
Trump so we can move forward as a country.
  Set yourself free. You know the truth, and the truth shall set you 
free.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  As a United States Air Force veteran and a proud Mexican-American 
woman that happens to be almost 8 months pregnant, I say that in regard 
to integrity, what happened in this country, what happened with the 
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collusion hoax was pushed down the throats of the American people is 
not what I would consider integrity.
  If we want to talk about these little fun games and comments back and 
forth, we are not here about Donald Trump. We are not here about 
January 6. We are here about the former chairman of the Intelligence 
Committee who used a lie that broke apart this country.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, we are here precisely because of Donald 
Trump, because he wants this retribution exacted against Adam Schiff 
for standing up against Donald Trump's lies and assaults on American 
democracy.
  I congratulate the gentlewoman on her forthcoming baby. That is 
awesome news. I am wondering if she would share some of her time with 
me because I have started to run out of time, and she has no speakers 
over on her side, so consider that.
  In the meantime, I recognize for 1 minute the gentlewoman from 
Colorado (Ms. DeGette). I recognize for 1 minute the gentleman from 
Colorado (Mr. Neguse).
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. 
Thompson), the chairman of the January 6th Select Committee.

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  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for 
yielding me the time.
  Mr. Speaker, with all the challenges our Nation faces today, why are 
we relitigating the ex-President's first impeachment from 2019?
  After a similar resolution failed last week, why are extreme MAGA 
Republicans hijacking this House yet again by devoting precious floor 
time to attacking my friend and colleague Adam Schiff?
  Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the leader of their 
party is facing trial on 37 felony counts of conspiracy and mishandling 
of classified documents. The disgraced ex-President even stored some of 
the Nation's most sensitive secrets in the bathroom of his Florida 
club.
  These attempts to censure Adam have been orchestrated to distract, 
but no one is fooled.
  Extreme MAGA Republicans are targeting Adam because he is everything 
they wish they could be. He is tough, principled, and effective.
  I have stood shoulder to shoulder with Adam.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 10 seconds to the 
gentleman from Mississippi.
  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I am proud of the work we 
did on January 6. It speaks for itself.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentlewoman from 
Pennsylvania (Ms. Scanlon).
  Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor the steadfast patriotism 
and integrity of Adam Schiff. This scurrilous resolution is so 
dishonest and defamatory that it would justify a lawsuit if it were 
made anywhere other than the Halls of Congress.
  This is pure political revenge and exposes both the depths to which 
the House Republican majority has sunk and their threat to our 
constitutional order.
  I encourage our colleagues to seriously consider how stunts like this 
bring dishonor upon this House and to condemn it unequivocally.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the distinguished 
gentleman from California (Mr.  Robert Garcia).
  Mr. ROBERT GARCIA of California. Mr. Speaker, this resolution is a 
joke.
  They are trying to smear Congressman Schiff for his work to defend 
our institutions. Meanwhile, the same people who attack Adam Schiff for 
seeking the truth refuse to take action against a serial and admitted 
fraudster in their own Conference.
  Adam Schiff did not win his elections on false pretenses. He has not 
been accused of crimes in the U.S., nor has he admitted to crimes in 
Brazil. Unfortunately, not all my House colleagues on the Republican 
side can say the same.
  Thirty-five days ago, every House Republican voted to defend George 
Santos. Instead, they want to censure someone who stands for truth and 
justice, Adam Schiff.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Sherman).
  Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, today is a proud day for California, but 
particularly for the San Fernando Valley.
  Hundreds of Members of this House did their best to protect America 
from Donald Trump, but only one did it so well that he is the focus of 
this ridiculous resolution. He was effective, he was direct, and Donald 
Trump has demanded that he be attacked.
  Mr. Speaker, I thank Adam for doing his job so well. California is 
proud, and America is grateful.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the distinguished 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Castro).
  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Adam Schiff did his job. That is 
why they are trying to censure him today.
  Mr. Speaker, he held a mirror up to today's Republican Party, and 
they can't stand the ugliness. Instead, they want to protect the most 
corrupt, indicted, and perhaps soon-to-be-convicted President of the 
United States.
  We should vote ``no'' on this censure resolution.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the distinguished 
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), the former Speaker of the 
House of Representatives.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding and for 
his great presentation today.
  Today, we are on the floor of the House where the other side has 
turned this Chamber where slavery was abolished, where Medicare and 
Social Security and everything were instituted, into a puppet show.
  Do you know what? The puppeteer, Donald Trump, is shining a light on 
the strings. You look miserable. You look miserable.
  The only advantage to all of this is that instead of reversing what 
we did on the IRA to save the planet or reversing what we did to reduce 
the cost of prescription drugs, we are wasting time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 10 seconds to the 
gentlewoman from California.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman from Maryland has 
expired.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Again, as I said, this is not about Donald Trump. This is about 
holding accountable someone who exploited their official position and 
had access to information that most Members of Congress do not have 
access to and bringing accountability back to the American people.
  Regardless of whatever the gentlewoman from California says or anyone 
else, you guys are not being honest about the focus of this resolution 
and this censure. That is exactly why we are here today to debate it 
out.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman has the only time remaining.
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
  Without objection, the previous question is ordered on the 
resolution.
  There was no objection.
  The question is on adoption of the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further 
proceedings on this question are postponed.

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