[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 18 (Wednesday, January 31, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S292]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                              Impeachment

  Mr. President, on the Mayorkas impeachment effort in the House, last 
night, while most Americans were fast asleep, a House committee voted 
to advance the absurd effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary 
Alejandro Mayorkas.
  The Republican House majority is moving forward with the sham 
impeachment effort, despite producing no evidence that Secretary 
Mayorkas has committed any crime. House Republicans have not shown that 
he has violated the Constitution. House Republicans have failed to 
present any evidence of anything resembling an impeachable offense.
  Instead, what House Republicans are doing by advancing the sham 
impeachment effort is denigrating our Constitution, all for the sake of 
appeasing one person and one person only, Donald Trump.
  And let this be clear: This unserious spectacle by House Republicans 
does nothing--nothing--to secure our border.
  While Senators on both sides of the aisle are actually negotiating in 
good faith on border security, House Republicans keep exploiting the 
border only for political gain--only to help Donald Trump on the 
campaign trail--instead of working to solve the problem.
  There have already been many shameful and embarrassing moments in the 
Republican House majority, but abusing the Constitution by pursuing 
this sham impeachment effort is a new, ignominious low.