Notice of Intention to Offer Resolution Raising A Question of the Privileges of the House

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Mr. CLYDE. Mr. Speaker, a point of order.

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Mr. CLYDE. Mr. Speaker, a point of order.

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Mr. CLYDE. Mr. Speaker, the point of order is you may not call the President of the United States a felon. That is a violation.

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Mr. CLYDE. Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend, Mr. Norman from South Carolina, for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this resolution censuring and condemning Delegate Stacey Plaskett from the U.S. Virgin Islands for inappropriate coordination with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a congressional hearing and removing Delegate Plaskett from the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and referring her to the Ethics Committee for further investigation.

After 4 years of silence on this matter, there was not a peep during the entire Biden Administration. Let me repeat that. After 4 years of silence on this matter about Jeffrey Epstein, House Democrats are now demanding transparency and accountability surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.

While their fake outrage is clearly just another disgusting attempt to smear President Trump, House Republicans are taking this matter seriously and are working toward delivering the much-needed transparency and accountability that the American people deserve.

This resolution is accountability page 1. During the House Oversight Committee's ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, emails obtained by a congressional subpoena--that is right, it was a congressional subpoena--by the House Oversight Committee, not the discharge petition that just got voted on, but this is the Oversight Committee's congressional subpoena--has brought to light that in 2019, Delegate Stacey Plaskett coordinated her line of questioning with Jeffrey Epstein in real time over text messages during an Oversight Committee hearing featuring testimony from Michael Cohen.

Now, who is Michael Cohen?

Michael Cohen was the disgraced former attorney of President Donald Trump.

She was asking input from Jeffrey Epstein on how to best question Cohen, and Cohen was himself at that time a convicted felon from 2018.

So now that Republicans are exposing Democrat ties to Jeffrey Epstein and his vile crimes, the other side of the aisle has flipped. They apparently no longer want transparency or accountability.

Why?

It is because they don't want the truth. They want to weaponize a serious matter into a distraction all in an attempt to take down President Trump and to hurt his administration and what he is doing to Make America Great Again.

The actions taken by Delegate Plaskett reflect poorly on the House, and this body needs to hold her accountable.

Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to vote to adopt this resolution to show the American people that those who colluded with Mr. Epstein, including Members of the House, will be held accountable, and this resolution is the beginning of that.

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