Providing for Consideration of H. Res. Calling on Vice President Pence to Convene and Mobilize the Cabinet to Activate Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to Declare President Donald J. Trump Incapable of Executing the Duties of His Office; and for Other Purposes
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Mr. SUOZZI. Mr. Speaker, I support invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office.
Former Congressman Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, would often say the veneer of civilization is paper-thin. We are its guardians, and we cannot rest.
I was sitting right there on Wednesday when they told us to take out our gas masks because the rioters had breached the Capitol.
I was standing right over there as the Capitol Police locked and barricaded the Chamber doors. I heard what I thought were gunshots as the rioters broke the windows in the main Chamber door with a metal pipe.
I was standing right over there when the woman was shot outside the Speaker's lobby, and the police radios rang out: ``Shots fired in the Capitol. Shots fired in the Capitol. Everyone down.''
The veneer of civilization is paper-thin.
Thousands of people, criminals, desecrated our Capitol, breaking windows and doors, attacking our brave officers, and vandalizing offices. Rioters, wearing Army fatigues with Confederate and Trump flags, donned Nazi swastikas. That and I saw one man who wore a shirt saying: ``Camp Auschwitz Staff.''
Our President instigated this. The President's duty is to protect our Republic and its people. He built a mob, filled it with lies, and encouraged its fight to stop the steal. Now, we hear intelligence reports that thousands of armed militias and white supremacists are planning to come again on or before January 20.
My colleagues, my friends on the other side of the aisle, we must together call upon the President to denounce this violence, to tell his supporters to stay home.
Mr. President, you must please put America first. You must call off this attack. And if not, you must be removed.
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