Press Releases
"Clause 2(j)(1) of Rule XI is clear and unequivocal: once the demand is made, Minority Members 'shall be entitled to . . . call witnesses selected by the minority to testify with respect to that measure or matter during at least on day of hearing thereon.'""The requested minority hearing day must take place before articles of impeachment are considered by the Committee.
"If presidents can be impeached for partisan policy differences based on presumptions and feelings, not actual evidence, Democrats have profoundly undermined the precedents of this institution."
"When the FIRST STEP Act was signed into law last year, it represented monumental bipartisan reform to our prison system. Today’s bill builds upon that momentum because it promotes fairness in the implementation of Good Conduct Time."
"American families bravely serving our country abroad shouldn’t have to fight through piles of bureaucracy to ensure their children are rightfully considered American citizens.”
"[B]ipartisan cooperation has been the exception, rather than the rule. Under your leadership, bipartisan solutions to real problems affecting real Americans have been sacrificed in favor of Committee Democrats’ obsession with impeaching the president and undoing the 2016 election."
"We do not have the Schiff Report. We do not have any underlying materials to the Schiff Report. We do not know of any hearings other than one of academics and possibly a presentation by Chairman Schiff’s committee. For the first time in history, this Committee will weigh impeachment without any evidence for us to review."
"The Committee must ensure it maintains its credibility and its historically preeminent role in the impeachment of presidents by not rushing to articles of impeachment or hearing only from scholars with demonstrated animosity towards the President. Throughout this hurried and partisan impeachment process, I have consistently requested mere fairness from members of the majority.
"Chairman Schiff has engaged in an assault on the already one-sided process.
"In spite of how important this issue is to consumers and businesses, this committee dragged its feet, and, instead, fixated on going after President Trump in an attempt to undo the 2016 election. That nonsense is now taking place in other committees rather than our own.
"Everyone knows that I believe in a strong patent system — that it’s essential to our economy, creating jobs and keeping America the world’s technology leader. Patents may be most important to the pharmaceutical and biologic industries.