Posted on 12/09/2019 7:18:00 AM PST by Texas Fossil
“Chairman Nadler has no choice but to postpone Monday’s hearing in the wake of a last-minute document transmission that shows just how far Democrats have gone to pervert basic fairness. . . . Democrats waited until after Speaker Pelosi announced that articles of impeachment were imminent and chose the eve of the Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearing to share loads of documents that Chairman Schiff has had since this investigation began.”
WASHINGTON — Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, has demanded Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, delay Monday’s hearing after Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Foreign Affairs Committee and Budget Committee transmitted thousands of pages of documents to House Judiciary Republicans less than 48 hours before Judiciary’s hearing scheduled to examine impeachment presentations from Intelligence and Judiciary Committees.
The document release comes 25 days after Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee wrote to Chairman Nadler requesting all documents related to the impeachment investigation according to House Rule XI, 2(e)2(a). Republicans received no response from the chairman.
“Chairman Nadler has no choice but to postpone Monday’s hearing in the wake of a last-minute document transmission that shows just how far Democrats have gone to pervert basic fairness. Nearly a month after every Republican on our committee asserted our clear right to see all underlying documents held by the committees involved in the impeachment investigation, we have received no response from the chairman. Instead, Democrats waited until after Speaker Pelosi announced that articles of impeachment were imminent and chose the eve of the Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearing to share loads of documents that Chairman Schiff has had since this investigation began. It is impossible for Judiciary members to sift through thousands and thousands of pages in any meaningful way in a matter of hours,” said Collins.
“Moreover, Democrats still refuse to release all documentation in their possession, though Republicans have demanded this according to rules of the House — which Democrats themselves adopted in January. The information Democrats released today is partial, biased and curated to support accusations that have, to date, been thinner than cotton candy.
“Americans still don’t have access to any information that Adam Schiff hasn’t chosen to weave into his trail of lies. On behalf of millions of American voters who deserve the truth, Chairman Nadler must postpone this hearing while the Judiciary Committee examines these documents. At the same time, Chairman Schiff must release to House members the complete body of underlying evidence that he has concealed.
“The unfairness and dishonesty of this impeachment sham continue to be unprecedented. In violating the rules that this House adopted democratically, Democrats have violated their oaths of office. Under Speaker Pelosi’s leadership, House Democrats have eroded the integrity of our chamber and sacrificed the confidence of Americans who trust Congress to balance power, not abuse it.”
Yes, accurate.
Impeachment is a media circus. They have nothing else.
If the Rs had any backbone they would walk out or just no-show. Let the Dems fake a quorum as well as everything else.
I’ve been saying this for WEEKS!! Ever since the start of the Schitt Sham Show.
Why give this complete nonsense ANY credence????
Time to take a pivot and have Pres. Trump announce he will not sign any continuing resolutions until a budget is presented to the Senate. And expect to work over the holidays until it is done.
I don’t think it will get to the Senate.
The actual ComDem vote in the House may yet tank this.
It will self implode.
Good thought. Doubt it will be done.
Wake me up when the traitors are being hung. That's the ONLY proper response to any of this garbage.
Stand and walk out. This is a JOKE.
The impeachment was always about the IG report and the Durham investigation. This just makes it obvious.
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Exactly. The rodents are trying to schedule the impeachment vote to create a smoke screen to cover any noise made by the IG’s report.
This tactic echoes the complaint democrats made in the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing. It’s apparently okay when they do it.
Yeah, yeah, Pelosi already played that card with obamycare, “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it”
I’m hoping grrrrrrreta will take up that portion.
That & the fact that while the Democrats are dragging out this dog & pony show nothing is getting done about conducting the people’s business, which may be pretty backlogged by now. The Democrats must not be planning on winning any votes except from those equally as stupid.
Yes, she played the card and it was an unbelievably bad disaster.
Yes
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