Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors

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Mr. MOORE of Alabama. Madam Speaker, I am fairly new here. Actually, this is my first floor speech. But I rise to oppose this impeachment.

I asked my staff this morning, how many times in our Nation's history have we impeached a President? Well, they said, up until this President, only two times in our Nation's history.

So here we are, 7 days left in his first term, and we are going to impeach a President. For what reasons? For what reasons? There have been no hearings. There have been no committees.

We must defend the right and protect the process of impeachment. If we pursue this, from now on, from this day forward, impeachment will always be a political process.

I ask my friends across the aisle--they always talk about healing-- healing. How do we come together as a nation?

Since 2016, there have been hashtags going around in our Nation that said, ``Not our President,'' ``Resist, resist.'' Members across the aisle have said things in public to have supporters of this President attacked and demeaned.

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