Impeachment
Floor Speech
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Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, on a different topic, I come to the floor today to discuss the Democrats' partisan campaign against President Trump.
The Democrats have been obsessed with impeaching him since day one of his Presidency, and I absolutely mean day one. As the President was taking the oath of office, sworn in to the Presidency, the Washington Post ran this headline: ``The campaign to impeach President Trump has begun.'' It was posted, actually, at 12:18, the day he took the oath of office. The minute he took the oath of office, that headline was posted.
So 3 years have passed, and impeachment is still taking up all the Democrats' time, all their efforts, and all their energy. They are fixated on it, and they are obsessed with it. As a doctor, in my opinion, the Democrats have a bad case of impeachment fever, and it seems that there is no cure for them.
We all know that Democrats deeply dislike this President. They have from the moment he was elected in November 2016. Let me ask you: Does that mean they get to overturn the last election? That is what they are trying to do, not to mention interfere with the upcoming election. That is really what it is--a bitterly partisan process.
Remember, it is being controlled by one political party. This is totally partisan, and up to now, at least it has been conducted, prior to today, in total secret, in the cellar, behind closed doors, and in the shadows. That is the way they have done it. It is not a fair process--no transparency and no accountability.
I think President Trump has a right to be treated fairly, yet his rights have been completely ignored. The process, in my opinion, is rigged against the President. The outcome is predetermined and fixed. The Democratic House wins; the American public loses.
Democrats are so obsessed, they can't work. The people elected them to do a job, to work for them, and they are nowhere to be found. The Democrats, for example, will not pass defense funding, funding our military, protecting our borders, protecting our Nation, and they will not approve trade deals or lower drug costs. They will not even help fix our aging roads and bridges.
Well, that is all bad news for the American people. All of this is tied up in the impeachment obsession that is grinding the Democrats in the House to a halt. The good news is, Republicans are highly resistant to this fever, and so are most Americans.
We are not going to join the Democrats' impeachment campaign. Republicans prefer to work on the issues we were elected to address-- jobs, the economy, national security--and we are going to continue to work for the people who elected us.
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