named for our great and departed may rest in peace, elijah cummings, the elijah cummings lower drug cost now act. this is a product. this may come as news that we are saying things to the contrary, this is a product of the work of three committees in the congress. i thank chairman pallone of the energy and commerce committee, chairman richard neal of ways and means and bobby scott of the education and labor committee for tear relentless and persistent work on this lifesaving legislation where many freshmen are controlling the time but in the course of the debate under the committees of jurisdiction, many of them spoke at that time as well demonstrating their leadership on this issue making it a reality on the floor of the house. and i thank again for their bold and urgency to lower the costs, the crushing burden of prescription drugs is an issue that impacts every family in america. much talk is given around here about having a seat at the table. the kitchen table of america's working families where they enjoy family but also address challenges that face them whether it's in their health

the elijah e. cummings lower drug cost now act. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. pursuant to house resolution 758 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration of h.r. 3. the chair appoints the gentleman from new jersey, mr. payne, to preside over the committee of the whole. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 3 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill to establish a fair price negotiation program, protect the medicare program from excessive price increases, and establish an out of pocket maximum for medicare part d enrollees and for other purposes. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered read the first time. general debate shall not exceed four hours with three hours equally divided among and controlled by the respective chairs and ranking minority members of the committees on energy and commerce, ways

we did all we could, elijah. we passed two articles of impeachment. the president is impeached. >> do you feel the house's role as complete, or are there steps you might try to take to ensure a more fair trial in the senate? speaker pelosi: we had a very fair process in the house of representatives. i would yield to our -- let me just put it another way. we have legislation approved by the rules committee that will enable us to decide how we will send over the articles of impeachment. managers until we see the process on the senate side, and i hope that will be soon, as we did with our resolution 660, to describe what the process would be. so far, we have not seen anything that looks fair to us, so hopefully it will be fair. you would wait for the senate articles until you learn what the senate is going to do? speaker pelosi: we will make a decision as a group, as we always have, as we go along. [indiscernible] speaker pelosi: we will decide what that dynamic is, but we hope the resolution of that process will be soon in the senate. [indiscernible] sp

we did all we could, elijah. the president is impeached. house's rolew the in this as complete now, or other steps that you might take to try to ensure the determined success with a more fair trial in the senate? a more fairsi: trial than they are contemplating, because we had a very fair process in the house of representatives. our -- let meto just put it another way. we have legislation approved by the rules committee that will enable us to decide how we will send over the articles of impeachment. we cannot name managers until we see what the process is' on the senates side -- with the process is on the senate's side and i would hope that was soon to describe the process would be. so far, we haven't seen anything that looks fair to us, so hopefully it would be fair. would you wait to extend the articles until you understand what the senate is going to do? theker pelosi: we will make decision, as we always have, as we go along. >> would you withhold the they have a fair trial? speaker pelosi: we will decide what that dynamic is but we hope

let me again thank eric chairman, all six of them, and her darling elijah. they did a remarkable job and hopefully you will be inspired by the moral courage of our as theespecially distinguished chairman recognized our freshman members who came here, reviewed the facts, understood the constitution, made their decision again to honor their oath of office. i am very proud of them. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] c-span's washington journal is live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. the house of representative votes on articles of impeachment against president trump. join the conversation all facebookith emails, comments, and tweets. watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. this morning. live thursday, the house returns one day after voting to impeach president trump and takes up work on the u.s.-mexico canada trade deal. that is at 9:00 a.m. on c-span. on c-span to the u.s. sen

the o want to acknowledge important work that was done by our dear and departed, may he peace, elijah cummings as chair of the oversight committee. now please to yield to the distinguished chair of the judiciary committee, mr. nadler. mr. nadler: thank you, madam speaker. months, last several the investigative committees of the house have been engaged in inquiry into president donald trump's efforts to solicit foreign interference 2020 elections. efforts that compromised our and threatenedty the integrity of our elections. inquiry, he's attempted to conceal the evidence from congress and from american people. our president holds the ultimate public trust. when he betrays that trust and uts himself before country, he endangers the constitution. our democracy, and he endangers our national security. of the constitution rescribed a clear remedy for presidents who so violate their oath of office. hat is the power of impeachment. today, in service to our duty to to our titution and country, the house committee on judiciary's introducing two articles of impeachment, charging the president o

but first a word about elijah. in april of 2017, we went to the white house and went to president trump and said all the right things. why can't we import safe medications, why can't we lower costs? today, president trump, we are going to do it. two things finally being done, first, the house of representatives on behalf of all consumers, is going to allow the health and human services secretary to negotiate prices, not just pay the relationshipoff prices demanded. second, we are adopting an idea that president trump had, put a cap, 20%. we will not pay more than that what other countries pay for the same medication. president trump put it in a blunt way, we are suckers. we are putting a cap on that price. this will lower the cost of prescription drugs over 10 years by half a trillion dollars. finally, our government is standing up on behalf of consumers and not protecting pharmaceuticals. what is inspiring about this, the benefits go to everyone. employers in vermont want employees to have health care and the prem

president obama at elijah cummings's funeral, the intel chair closing comments. senator kamala harris announcing presidential bid in oakland, california. last, we'll leave an open space there for the president, just an open space, hope that maybe one day he'll have one speech to fill in the spot. maybe one day. susan? >> when i saw this category, immediately one line came to mind, we are better than this, elijah cummings. it happened at the beginning of this year and i'm always going back to it because i find myself watching hearings or what have you and i say, we are better than this. how are we going to get there though. >> that's a tough one. >> unfortunately, some of the others say no, we're not better. >> they prove it on a daily basis. >> exactly. >> i came very close to say that one as well. it was so moving and congressman cummings was such a good man that it's a real loss not to have him here during this impeachment crisis. maybe it's because i'm so in my feelings about her not being in the race, i go back to kamala harris' announcement speech. >> 20,000

week we passed the elijah cummings lower drug cost which does just that. we discussed the particulars of it. know we allant to was said we would be spending hundreds of billions of dollars in savings on expanding benefits for medicare. hearing, and the biggest expansion of medicare since its inception. an important bipartisan bill to keep the government open and to do so early enough so you knew to make your we can plans and get started for all the holidays. that was a major accomplishment. it took constant back-and-forth, thewe ended up appropriators can get the job done. and we need to wait for the chairman's work. we are pleased with that legislation. we will take it up in the senate soon and it will be on its way to the president for his signature. before i leave the subject of impeachment, let me commend our chairman adam schiff. so proud of him. maxine waters, financial means, eliots and engel in the foreign affairs committee, and an important committee. i said last night and i say today while he is not with us today physically, elijah cummings is wi

the elijah e. cummings lower drug cost now act is a historic proposal to improve the health and well being of all americans. not only does the legislation lower drug costs for taxpayers and seniors on medicare, it lowers drug costs for businesses and families across the country, allowing employer sponsored plans to access the same cost savings negotiated for medicare. in fact, according to the centers for medicare and medicaid service, h.r. 3 will save households and businesses more than $160 billion over the next 10 years. in my district, this means savings for approximately 00,000 people in public and private health insurance programs. h.r. 3 will save the taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars and these savings will be reinvested in health care priorties. these priorities include funding new cures for the national institute of health. funding community health centers. esearch -- which serve thousands across the country and combat the opioid epidemic. the elijah e. cummings lower drug costs no

within the past week we passed the elijah cummings lower drug costs act which deals with that. we discussed the particulars of it. but with the savings that we gain from that, i think it's important to note that we already said we would be spending hundreds of billions of dollars in savings in expanding benefits for medicare, dental, isual, hearing and the most -- the biggest expansion of medicare since its inception. next, we did -- we did an important bipartisan bill, the appropriations bill to keep government open and to do so early enough to make your weekend plans and get started for all the holidays you may be observing. and that was a major accomplishment. took constant back-and-and forth. as an appropriator myself, left to their own devices, the appropriators can get the job nita lowey, lute he ranking member as well. take up cloture in the senate and it will be on its way to the president for his signature. subject of ve the impeachment. adam schiff, jerry lad nadler, maxine waters, richie neal, ways and means committee, elliott engel, its foreign affairs committee and

was talking about. >> boy, is elijah missed. in this moment he was such a strong voice and good for adam schiff and picking up that mantle and kentucky to me is really important because what kentucky has suffered under the sort of mini donald trump that they ousted in this election, in this off-year election was somebody who said to kentucky voters what you get for electing me is me. and i have the power over you for me. but what you don't get is health care. what you don't get are schools that are decent because you don't deserve any of that. what you get is me, which is what donald trump has said to the country. it's a mini version of what donald trump has said, but you dent get his mercy. and the voters of kentucky said you know what we want is health care, what we want are decent schools, what we want is mercy from people who have made their debt to society. so you're seeing in states what people actually can vote and make a choice, we saw a same thing in louisiana where they said, no, you can't take away our governor just b

and it seems like the was what elijah cummings was talking about. >> and boy is elijah cummings missedin this moment. he was such a strong, moral voice. and good for adam schiff for picking up that mantle and that righteous indignation he saw him channel i thought was so important. what kentucky has suffered under the sort of mini donald trump that they ousted in this election in this off-year election was somebody who said to kentucky voters what you get for electing me is me. and i have the power over you for me. but what you don't get is health care. what you don't get are schools that are decent. you don't deserve any of that. what you get is me, which is what donald trump has to the country. what you don't get is mercy. and the voters of kentucky have said what we want is health care. what we want are decent schools. what we want is mercy for people who have paid their debt to society. so you're seeing in states people can make a vote and a choice. they said no, you can't take our governor just because you want to replace him with another donald trump. people do choose for what's

we did our part, elijah. the president is impeached. >> madam speaker, do you view the house's role in this as complete now, or are there steps you might take to try to ensure as the chairman suggested a more fair trial in the senate? >> you mean, more fair trial than they're contemplating? because we had a very fair process in the house of representatives. >> yes, ma'am. >> i would yield to our -- let me just put it another way. we will have legislation approved by the rules committee that will enable us to decide how we will send over the articles of impeachment. we cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the senate side. and i would hope that that will be soon, as we did with our legislation, our resolution 660, to describe what the process would be. so far, we haven't seen anything that looks fair to us, so hopefully it will be fair. and when we see what that is, we'll send over our managers. >> so, you would wait to send the articles until you understand what the senate is going to do? >

let me again thank our chairmen, all six of them and our darling elijah. they did a remarkable job and i think you probably hopefully will be inspired by the moral courage of our caucus. especially as the distinguished chairman recognized our freshman members who came here, revealed -- reviewed the facts, understood the constitution, made their decision again to honor their oath of office. i'm very proud of them. >> speaker of the house nancy pelosi wrapping an interesting press conference with the chairs of the committees that she had given responsibility for doing the investigation that ultimately has led to the impeachment of president trump tonight on two articles, on abuse of power and obstruction of congress. what we just saw there in the press conference was speaker pelosi making brief remarks to herself, and nadler was followed by the intelligence chairman adam schiff who made his own remarks specifically directed towards what happens next in the u.s. senate, raising the question about the fairness of the expected trial in that senate. we're actual

seat, and then both of you running, is this what elijah would want?to understand what he would have wanted? >> i would tell you this, i'm a practitioner, i believe in democracy, and i know the congressman, if he were her, he would not want to choose between any of us, but i know because i'm a believer in democracy and myself, he would say hey, let's let the people decide, let's look at folks heart and issues and i will often tell people, and i will tell you this too, mika, i will never be elijah, but i will be the best harry spikes that i can be to fight for the finishes that he and i stood for. i'm continuing a mission, there is a lot of things wasn't able to complete. a lot of conversations that he and i talked about dealing with the country and the district, so i want to make sure that people understand that. but he would not want to be put in the position to choose between any of us. but he believed in democracy, he believed in allowing folks to decide who would be best suited for the seat. >> harry, the president had really attacked the district

support of h.r. 3, the elijah cummings lower costs now act. this bill fulfills a promise hat we made to the american people. we heard you, america, when you high s drug costs were so you sometimes had to choose between buying your medicine and your heated bill. when you america, spoke us about skyrocketing drug costs, compromising your quality life. we heard, america, when you said drugs because on you couldn't afford your next prescription. to make thosehave tradeoffs for themselves or children. in the united states, we pay more for drugs than any other country. alone, americans pay four times the average of other countries. district in maryland, people with medicare are paying what they would pay in australia. 3.5 times they would pay in the kingdom. 2.6 times what they would pay in drugs.for prescription marylanders and americans have een getting a bad deal, and it's time to change that. i come from the business world, nd in business you're successful when you negotiate a better price. do rnment should be able to the same thing with pharmac

ed: james a chance to respond to that. >> funny thing attacks on elijah cummings district, that districtgain registered one of the highest numbers of homicide in the country. you talked about the problems in the black community, richard. who runs those communities? who has been running those communities for past 50 years? republicans are nowhere in sight. eight years of president up obama. we had eight years of so-called first black president, bill clinton. what you have black elected officials complaining about the things they complained about for last 50 years. they were the ones actually running these cities in america. so what president trump has done is actually bring action. under president obama we heard that these jobs were never going to come back. he mocked president trump, what are you going to do wave a wand, bring jobs back. clearly he did not economic policy enough. we now have proof -- >> i think we all know you can't look at economy in vacuum. donald trump is building on eight years of president obama's economy. i never knocked him on that. to sit her insult the people of

i want to acknowledge the important work that was done by our dear and departed elijah cummings as chair of the oversight committee. i'm pleased to yield to mr. nadler. >> thank you, madam speaker. over the last several months the investigative committees of the house have been engaged in an impeachment inquiry into donald trump's efforts to solicit foreign interference in the 2016 elections, it compromised our national security and threatened the integrity of your elections. throughout this inquiry, he has attempted to conceal the evidence from congress and from the american people. our president holds the ultimate public trust. when he betrays that trust and puts himself before country. he endangers the constitution, he endangers our democracy and he endangers our national security. the framers of the constitution prescribed a clear remedy for presidents who so violate their oath of office. that is the power of impeachment. today in service to our duty to the constitution and to our country, the house committee on the judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment charging the pr

chairman adam schiff, foreign affairs chairman adam engel, committee oversight former chairman, the late elijah cummings and the new chairwoman, carolyn maloney, maxine waters, and richard neal who helped lay the foundation for the articles we are introducing today. my do want to thank sherry committee colleagues who were critical and our work to hold the president accountable and in the drafting of these articles. judiciary week, the committee will meet to consider these articles of impeachment, and to make a recommendation to the full house of representatives. we do not take this action lightly, for we have taken an oath to defend the constitution, and unlike president trump, we understand that our duty first and foremost is to protect the constitution and to protect the interest of the american people. that is why we must take this solemn step today. the cornerstone of democracy and foundational to the rule of law. the integrity of our next election is at risk from a president who has already sawed foreign interference in 2016 and 2020 elections -- sought foreign interference in 2016 and 202

>> elijah blue. >> huh? >> elijah blue. elijah blue. >> really?ifferent beds. >> there's something special between us. >> yes, there is, and he's standing backstage. [laughter] >> but they always had that special spark on screen. >> i think i'm falling in love, again. [laughter] >> and i am falling in love with you, too. >> we were bigger than our marriage, truthfully. we were more than a marriage. as you know, for 10 years i was married to kind of a very special man. and in those 10 years, he gave me a lot of things, a lot of really nice things. i guess one of the nicest things he has ever given me is something that i would like to share with you right now, and her name is chastity bono. [applause] >> sonny and cher were family. >> i really love you. i love you a lot. >> you are still my -- goomba. >> thank you, honey. >> there was always love between them and we could always feel it coming right through the screen. >> the two of you are really nifty and i think i love you both. >> thank you. >> with this new collection, they've got each other an

we did all we could, elijah, we passed the two articles of impeachment. the president is impeached. >> reporter: madam speaker, do you view the house's role in this as complete now or are there other steps you might take to ensure a more fair trial in the senate? >> you mean more fair trial than they're contemplating because we had a very fair process in the house of representatives. i would yield to our -- let me just put it another way. we have legislation approved by the rules committee that will enable us to decide how we will send over the articles of impeachment. we cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the senate side, and i would hope that that will be soon, as we did with their legislation, our resolution 660 to describe what the process would be. so far we haven't seen anything that looks fair to us so hopefully it will be fairer and when we see what that is, we'll send our managers. >> reporter: what would you consider a fair trial, madam speaker? >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> we'll make a decision as a group, as we always h

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goodbye to elijah cummings, luke perry of 90210 and camera boyce just 20. >> i've always been reallyylie jenner turned fame into fortune. >>> there was so much team on the oscars stage between bradley cooper and lady gaga statements were issue d. 2019 is the year that amazon took over the world and boeing was grounding jets. >> an increasing number of americans on the plane, companies saying they don't want their staff on them. headaches all around. mark zuckerberg was called before congress twice. >> this is not about helping the politicians. >> it is hate speech. >> walmart walked away from the gun business. >> walmart saying they will discontinue sales of handgun ammunition and ammunition that can be used with military style shootings. a gunman in dayton ohio took nine more innocent lives. >> the courts were a busy place, amb amb amber geiger sentenced to prison after walking in the wrong apartment and shooting him. and felicity huffman going to jail for 11 days. trump associates were tried, convicted, and jailed along with joaquin el chapo. >> you were staying at the house of a c

. >> it was an enormous task, >> i want to begin by acknowledging the work of elijah cummings. we are guided by thoughts of his integrity. i also want to thank my colleagues for their tremendous work. this report chrnoicles a doeme by the president to his dirty work. offical acts and hundreds of millions of dollars in order to comple that power to assist his reelection campaign. reformer asa new its president. with the president in holdsal office significance. miliatary assistance is essential. the united states is providing it is enormously important. athholding it sends disastrous message. these were things that ukraine desperately wanted and needed. needed antrump investigation that would damage joe biden. that conspiracy theory, which is often summarized by the term crowd strike, is a russian narrative. promulgated by vladimir putin. to drive a wedge between the ukraine.ates and that is what the president wanted. two sham investigationss. sacrifice the to national security of the united states in order to get what he wanted. that scheme was discovered, because a courageous

covered by scaffolding but it will be unveiled in time for the 75th anniversary of the soviet union's elijah victory of a nazi germany. russia's anti doping agency verizon has filed an appeal against the world anti-doping agency wada for its 4 year ban on russian participation in international sporting events earlier this month or assad his board voted in favor of appealing to the court of arbitration for sport in switzerland senior russian political figures including president vladimir putin had indicated they wanted an appeal filed following the ruling. and now a quick reminder of the top stories we're following for you. police in the somalia say more than a dozen people have been killed by a car bomb in mogadishu police say the bomb was detonated during the morning rush hour at a busy security checkpoint. the australian army has been called in to help fight wildfires raging near the country's largest city sydney forecasters expect an extreme heat wave in the next few days to raise the fire risk. they're up to date now on the news stay tuned for world stories omarion evans team thanks for

and i want to begin by acknowledging the great work of the great and late colleague of mine, elijah cummings. we continue to be inspired by his legacy. and guided by thoughts of his integrity and the great moral clarity he always showed in his work. i also want to thank my colleagues, chairman engel, chairwoman maloney, for their tremendous work as well. this report chronicles a scheme by the president of the united states to coerce an ally, ukraine, that is at war with an adversary, russia, into doing the president's political dirty work. it involves a scheme in which donald trump with held official acts, white house meeting, and hundreds of millions of dollars of needed military assistance in order to compel that power to deliver two investigations he believed would assist his re-election campaign. i want to underscore first of all just how important that white house meeting was to ukraine. ukraine has a new reformer as its president. president zelensky. a meeting with the most important patron of ukraine, the president of the united states, in the oval office, carries enormous significanc

which in the time can when she is full of time elijah for managing to use. germany has proposed that higher standards should be set and the standard should apply to all players in the entire industry to ensure cybersecurity and it's on the ship and i pods and i believe the best approach to this should be to develop cybersecurity management methods and rules and measures based on facts and evidence means open source so we're able to do something to hold maybe we can talk about germany in this specific role in a moment i just want to come back to the concerns for a 2nd so. people all around the world say how can we trust a company which can be forced by law to deliver information to the state. what make you what do you make of this thoughts now we shall. help huawei a woman who had seen 1st and while wit complies with all local laws and regulations in every country and region where we operate. tommy you'll let me they need a whole 2nd incident where only provides equipment and does not participate in network operations so we have no access to user data how you

chairman, thank you for this opportunity to discuss the jackson lee amendment to the elijah e. cummings lower drug prices now act. let me also express my thanks to the chairman of the committees of jurisdiction for their hard work in crafting this critically important legislation. chairman malone -- pallone of energy and congress, chairman scott and chairman neal. the elijah cummings lower drug price now act levels of playing field by giving medicare the power to negotiation directly with drug companies and creating powerful new tools to force drug companies to the table, to agree to real price reductions, while ensuring seniors never lose access to the prescriptions they need. two, making lower drug prices negotiated by medicare available to americans with private insurance, not just medicare beneficiaries. three, stopping drug companies from ripping off americans while charging other countries less for the same drugs and limiting the maximum price for any negotiated drug to be in line with the average price in chris like ours. four, creating a new $2,000 out-of-pocket limit o

of adam schiff, of which i am extremely proud, the work of adam schiff, eliot engel, and beloved elijah cummings, whom we miss entirely, now carolyn maloney, the three jurisdictions, intelligence, foreign affairs, government reform, had hearings bringing in, again, patriotic americans, some appointed by the president, who presented the facts and then we had yesterday the hearing of the professors, the constitutional scholars. what was so valuable about that is while we have talked about it and while the foreign service officers talked about it, when the professors taught about it, they taught about it and they taught about the constitution and what the vision was of our founders and what the violations are of this president and what-- and what that is all about. article 2 says i can do whatever i want. completely contrary to our founders had in mind. all along i said for two years this is an impeachment is not a pleasant experience. it can be divisive. we don't take any glee in this at all. it's heartbreaking, but the president gave us no choice. we are not going to say we would honor o

i said last night and say today, while he isn't with us today physically here, elijah cummings is with us in spirit, a foundation he helped lay for justice is with us. and it is said when we're dancing with the angels, what will we know about what we did to keep the constitution intact? when he said that it was very prescient. little did we know by the time we passed the impeachment resolution of the articles of impeachment, that he would be dancing with the angels. right now as we speak, they're debating on the floor the u.s.-mexico-canada trade agreement. i hear my colleagues on the floor last night saying, if we weren't doing this, we could be doing mexico. well, we are doing mexico. and the discussion that took some time to convince the administration and the other countries was that we weren't going forward until we had the strongest possible enforcement of the ledge -- of the trade agreement and also manifested in the legislation that we'll have on the floor today, the implementing legislation. as you've heard me say over and over again, this is about enforcement, the overarching

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i also want to acknowledge the work of the dear and departed elijah cummings. and i'm pleased to yield to mr. nadler. >> thank you, madame speaker. in the last several months, the investigative committees in the house have been engaged in an impeachment inquiry for donald trump's efforts to solicit foreign interference in our elections. throughout this inquiry he has attempted to conceal the evidence from congress and from the american people. our president holds the ultimate public trust, when he betrays that trust and puts himself before country, he endangers the constitution, he endangers our democracy, and our national security. the framers of the constitution prescribed a clear remedy for presidents that so violate their oath of office. that is the power of impeachment. today in service to our duty to the constitution and to the country, the house committee on the judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment charges the president of the united states donk j. trurp with competing high cries and misdemeano misdemeanors. the first is for abuse of offi

when i read this topic i was reminded about what president obama said when he was speaking at elijahs funeral just a few months ago and he was talking about men and kindness and how he talks to his daughters about what a wonderful quality it is in a man and a good man, somebody was kind. i would say the number one quality that you admitted from elijah cummings to his friends and who was universally respected for the gestures that he always made. i know that president obama didn't use the word successful but you could hear it and what he was saying. you're measured by how you treat others. that can come across in all sorts of ways. >> you get it back. during my mom's illness actually on a day-to-day basis will stop people in the streets who are perfect strangers in the middle of new york city mfis see a woman who really clearly looks great and might be the only person that tells her she looks amazing that they, i try to stop and just help people if i think that they need help. you get it back or even a hundredfold in terms of how that makes you feel on the inside. be competitive with

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want to acknowledge the important work that was done by our dear and departed, may he rest in peace, elijah cummings as chair of the oversight committee. i will now yield to the chair of the distinguished committee, mr. nadler. >> thank you, madam speaker. over the last several months, the investigative committee of the house have engaged in and impeachment inquiry into donald trump's efforts to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 elections. efforts that compromised our national security and threatened the integrity of our elections. throughout this inquiry, he is attempted to conceal the evidence from congress and from the american people. our president holds the ultimate public trust. when he betrays that trust and puts himself before country, he endangers the constitution. he endangers our democracy, and he endangers our national security. the framers of the constitution prescribed a clear remedy for presidents who so violate their oath of office. that is the power of impeachment. today, and service to our duty to the constitution and to our country, the house committee on the judic

elijah cummings is no longer with us. he is in heaven just like the prophet elijah, but his spirit is with us. and we are better than this. we are proceeding in a serious, solemn, and sober fashion because the allegations are deadly serious. is it okay for the president to solicit foreign interference in a 2020 election, or not? who should decide the outcome of our elections? is it the russians, the chinese, the ukrainians? or the american people? it should be the american peopl people. and that is why we are here at this moment, so let's have a serious discussion about it. stop attacking americans who refused to bend the knee to this president. i yield to the gentleman from tennessee. >> thank you, sir. one of the big issues here is trump conditioning military aid on an investigation on the bidens. joe biden, his primary political opponent in his mind. the republicans have said no, it was about corruption, it wasn't about them. but listen to what they talked about today. all they've talked about is the bidens. under bide