When we impeached this president, we warned that he was a dictator in waiting.
I believe now what I believed then: this president is a threat to our democracy, our families, and to us.
Some of my colleagues are throwing tantrums because they have to go through metal detectors. Do they know that countless children have to do the same thing to go to school?
Republicans are now saying "we can't have a 4-4 court on election day." But that's exactly what they did when Merrick Garland was nominated. Any reporter who takes this bad-faith argument seriously should be rightly shamed.
It’s interesting to watch my GOP colleagues who refused to wear a mask or practice social distancing, and who attended “super spreader” events, jump in line to get vaccinated. Shameless.
The same baby formula producer that had contaminated product and led to this shortage used billions of dollars to buy back stock instead of investing in their product safety. Putting profits before the safety of our children is unacceptable.
The second article of impeachment was for obstruction of Congress: covering up witnesses and documents from the American people.
This morning the President not only confessed to it, he bragged about it:
"Honestly, we have all the material. They don't have the material."
America is on fire right now, and the president of the United States is walking around with gasoline.
We need healing. We need empathy. We need justice.
When you see how much money President Trump has lost and how many bad business decisions he has made, you start to understand how America has the worst COVID-19 response of any country on Earth.
We can’t become numb to the president saying dangerous things. Calling for the arrest of President Obama and Vice President Biden on invented charges is not just “there he goes again.” It’s the action of an aspiring dictator. Stay vigilant.
I am a descendant of slaves, who knew that they would not make it, but dreamed and prayed that one day I would make it.
So despite America's complicated history, my faith is in the Constitution.
I've enforced the laws, and now I write the laws. Nobody is above the law.
Today the United States lost the national defense expertise of a decorated war hero due to political retaliation from a president who dodged the draft and attacked Gold Star families.
For hours now, my colleagues in the Judiciary Committee have been arguing against creating a code of ethics for Supreme Court Justices.
AGAINST a code of ethics.
C’mon guys.
Tulsa was the site of the worst racist violence in American history. The president’s speech there on Juneteenth is a message to every Black American: more of the same.
You want to support babies and mothers? Me too. Paid family leave, the child tax credit, gun safety, quality health care, great public education – that is a pro-family agenda.
Today Senate Republicans blocked THREE election security bills.
Two would require that illegal foreign election interference be reported to the authorities.
The other would make voting machines harder to hack.
All blocked.
Tonight, I’m proud that we impeached this corrupt, cruel, cowardly president, and I am gut-wrenchingly sad that the Senate GOP lacked the courage and honor to remove him from office.
When we impeached this president, we warned that he was a dictator in waiting.
I believe now what I believed then: this president is a threat to our democracy, our families, and to us.
I asked our witnesses: "was Mr. Giuliani promoting official U.S. interests?"
Both answered no.
Said Mr. Kent: "I believe he was looking to dig up political dirt."
Ambassador Taylor: "I agree"
When we impeached the president, the Senate was GOP controlled.
We hoped, we prayed, that they would do the right thing.
But the most likely outcome was always a cover-up. We did it anyway. A lot of people asked: why?
Because it was right.
Now it's up to you.
With the deepest sadness but strongest conviction I will again vote to impeach this president for his crimes against the republic and the American people.
The federal government’s Inspectors General were created after Watergate. Their purpose is to prevent corruption. The president is firing and undermining them because they keep catching his administration engaged in corruption.
The GOP argument that they need another GOP member on the Supreme Court in order to contest the election results is a frank confession that they plan to try to steal the election.
It was pretty strange to see so many Republicans refuse to applaud the President’s announcement last night that we had cut child poverty in America by half.
In the iniquitous Dred Scott decision, Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney ruled that Black Americans were not U.S. citizens. I just voted to remove a bust of him from the Capitol and replace it with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
America, what is President Trump doing? He lost and is now trying to overturn the will of the people, while the GOP does nothing.
History WILL remember those who did not have the courage to fight for our democracy.
During the Attorney General’s testimony today it was clear that Mr. Barr thinks of himself as the president’s personal fixer, not the attorney for the American people.
"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." – John Lewis
The president confessed to trying to cheat in the election, and said he would do it again.
I was a law enforcement officer for 27 years. This is what we would call an open and shut case.
It’s unacceptable that Florida is now the only state that hasn’t signed up for the federal funding we passed in our COVID relief plan to ensure that children don’t go hungry. Playing politics with hungry children is simply cruel.
90,000 Americans have died. 33 million out of work. Yet President Trump can’t see past his vendetta against President Obama—like Captain Ahab, unable to look past his white whale as the ship is smashed to splinters around him. He has never been able to put the country first.
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There will be no update today.
At 8:30 am this morning, state police came into my house and took all my hardware and tech.
They were serving a warrant on my computer after DOH filed a complaint.
They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids..
I am honored to have the opportunity to help defend our republic in this incredible moment in history. I hope that every American who believes in democracy will take a stand.
Senate Republicans at this very moment are blocking a bill that will allow women to travel to another state for a safe, legal abortion. This is not freedom, this is control.
We should pass a new rule to prohibit Members of Congress from trading stocks while passing laws that affect those stocks. I’ve cosponsored legislation to ban it.
Sometimes your side loses elections. That’s democracy. To throw around baseless claims of fraud, with no evidence, undermines our republic and threatens our most precious freedoms. It’s time for the GOP to find their backbones and rein in this reckless president.
Why are GOP governors still suing to abolish the Affordable Care Act and strip health care from tens of millions of people during the middle of a pandemic?