Al Green
Representative for Texas · Democratic · United States
“I continue to speak because I made a commitment to my constituents that I would work hard as long as I am in the Congress, and I will work for them to make sure that they achieve affordability for food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, the necessities of life. That is what affordability is all about. I also, Mr.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“I have presented it, Mr. Speaker, because we have a President who has condoned and supported the killings of innocent people. These were people who were committing no crimes. Let us start with Renee Good. On January 7, 2026, she lost her life.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“I will be voting to defend the Constitution and support it today when I vote to impeach the President. Here is one thing that I will call to everyone's attention: The families of these persons are still suffering. They expect us to do something. I do believe that we have this obligation to impeach.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“Under President Trump's direction, his administration has actively refused to cooperate with and has intentionally hampered State investigations into abuses by Federal officers, withholding important evidence to shield officers from scrutiny for unjustified killings in Minnesota, Texas, and Maine.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“We CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.'s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!'' President Trump continued to condone unjustified killings by ICE and CBP officials.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
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“Under President Trump's direction, his administration has actively refused to cooperate with and has intentionally hampered State investigations into abuses by Federal officers, withholding important evidence to shield officers from scrutiny for unjustified killings in Minnesota, Texas, and Maine. The masks worn by officers also inspire fear and instill terror in their victims and the communities in which the officers operate. As Judge William G. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts explained: ``ICE goes masked for a single reason--to terrorize Americans into quiescence. . . . [M]asks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.''.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“We CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.'s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!'' President Trump continued to condone unjustified killings by ICE and CBP officials. (2) enabling ice and cbp to operate with anonymity and secrecy to terrorize communities, in violation of the fourth amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures and the fifth amendment right to due process Under President Trump's control, ICE and CBP officers hide their identities by wearing masks and other face coverings, failing to wear identifying uniforms, refusing to provide their names and badge numbers, and entering homes without warrants. Through government-sanctioned anonymity, officers evade accountability to the public, elected officials, and the courts.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP.''. The above statement is proof of President Trump's enabling of a coverup and condoning of an unjustified killing. Without a trial, a Federal immigration officer acted as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner. On January 24, 2026, Federal immigration officers killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, when he was part of a small group of approximately fifteen peaceful protesters.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“Instead, the FBI and DOJ tried to force employees to investigate Ms. Good's widow, which prompted a wave of resignations. On January 7, 2026, President Trump issued the following statement on Truth Social: ``I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive but is now recovering in the hospital.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“High crimes and misdemeanors committed by the President of the United States and not addressed by this body (the United States House of Representatives) through its sovereign impeachment power, unconstrained by the ostensible will of the United States Senate, threaten the very fabric and survival of the United States Constitution and our democratic republic. After having been impeached by the United States House of Representatives on January 13, 2021, under articles of impeachment in H. Res. 24, stating that Donald John Trump, ``. . .”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“The case for President Donald John Trump's impeachment is as follows: ``Shall any man be above justice?'' These immortal words of Constitutional Convention delegate George Mason became the impetus for adding high crimes and misdemeanors to the Constitution as grounds for the impeachment of a President who commits injustices harmful to the republic (society) or who, if left in office, would be a threat to the republic. Ahead of the 2024 election, former Vice President Dick Cheney declared, ``In our nation's 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.''. The President is reducing American democracy to an authoritarian regime.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of the privileges of the House and offer H. Res. 1486, the resolution that was previously noticed.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“I will be voting to defend the Constitution and support it today when I vote to impeach the President. Here is one thing that I will call to everyone's attention: The families of these persons are still suffering. They expect us to do something. I do believe that we have this obligation to impeach. This is why these articles were brought. I have been saying this for some time, long before this last election wherein I was not re-elected to Congress. Those who question my motives, I didn't question your motives until you questioned mine. When you do that, you can expect me to question yours. Finally, Mr. Speaker, how many more will have to die before we will take up this cause seriously? How many more? It is hard for me to believe that we have Democrats who are going to vote to maintain the President in office.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“I am here today to say that I will be voting to impeach the President of the United States. I will vote to impeach him, and I understand that anything other than a vote to impeach him is going to be a vote to support him. It will be a vote to support him. I will not vote to support a person who has, under his operation of ICE and CBP, caused four persons to lose their lives and says ugly things about them. He has called them terrorists and other ugly names. He has said that the victims were persons who were somehow at fault for the demise that they have suffered, for the death that was brought upon them. I believe that I have a duty, a responsibility, and an obligation as a sworn Member of Congress, sworn in to support and defend the Constitution.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“I have presented it, Mr. Speaker, because we have a President who has condoned and supported the killings of innocent people. These were people who were committing no crimes. Let us start with Renee Good. On January 7, 2026, she lost her life. We have heard little or nothing about an investigation at the Federal level, and the Federal officers do all that they can to prevent the local prosecutors from moving forward with the case. The same thing has happened with Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero. These four persons have lost their lives. Alex Pretti was on the ground, hands out, and he was shot nine times. He was shot more than nine times while he was on the ground unarmed. He was unarmed. There has not been an indication of any type of investigation that would lead to an indictment.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“I continue to speak because I made a commitment to my constituents that I would work hard as long as I am in the Congress, and I will work for them to make sure that they achieve affordability for food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, the necessities of life. That is what affordability is all about. I also, Mr. Speaker, have been a proponent of impeachment. For years, I have talked about it. As of late, I have indicated that we are in a countdown to impeachment, a countdown. The countdown continues. {time} 1145 Mr. Speaker, I have an official notice in my hand indicating that there will be a Republican motion to table H. Res. 1486, impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors. This will take place today sometime after 1 p.m. This is the resolution that I have presented to this House.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, and still I rise unbought, unbossed, a liberated, unelected Democrat. I rise notwithstanding the fact that I have been censured but not silenced. I rise because as a person who has been censured and not silenced, I understand the value and the worth in having the opportunity to speak.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“Under President Trump's direction, his administration has actively refused to cooperate with and has intentionally hampered State investigations into abuses by Federal officers, withholding important evidence to shield officers from scrutiny for unjustified killings in Minnesota, Texas, and Maine. The masks worn by officers also inspire fear and instill terror in their victims and the communities in which the officers operate. As Judge William G. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts explained: ``ICE goes masked for a single reason--to terrorize Americans into quiescence. . . . [M]asks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.''.”
House of Representatives14 September 2026Source ↗
“We CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.'s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!'' President Trump continued to condone unjustified killings by ICE and CBP officials. (2) enabling ice and cbp to operate with anonymity and secrecy to terrorize communities, in violation of the fourth amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures and the fifth amendment right to due process Under President Trump's control, ICE and CBP officers hide their identities by wearing masks and other face coverings, failing to wear identifying uniforms, refusing to provide their names and badge numbers, and entering homes without warrants. Through government- sanctioned anonymity, officers evade accountability to the public, elected officials, and the courts.”
House of Representatives14 September 2026Source ↗
“Instead, the FBI and DOJ tried to force employees to investigate Ms. Good's widow, which prompted a wave of resignations. On January 7, 2026, President Trump issued the following statement on Truth Social: ``I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive but is now recovering in the hospital.”
House of Representatives14 September 2026Source ↗
“High crimes and misdemeanors committed by the President of the United States and not addressed by this body (the United States House of Representatives) through its sovereign impeachment power, unconstrained by the ostensible will of the United States Senate, threaten the very fabric and survival of the United States Constitution and our democratic republic. After having been impeached by the United States House of Representatives on January 13, 2021, under articles of impeachment in H. Res. 24, stating that Donald John Trump, ``. . .”
House of Representatives14 September 2026Source ↗
“The case for President Donald John Trump's impeachment is as follows: ``Shall any man be above justice?'' These immortal words of Constitutional Convention delegate George Mason became the impetus for adding high crimes and misdemeanors to the Constitution as grounds for the impeachment of a President who commits injustices harmful to the republic (society) or who, if left in office, would be a threat to the republic. Ahead of the 2024 election, former Vice President Dick Cheney declared, ``In our nation's 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.''. The President is reducing American democracy to an authoritarian regime.”
House of Representatives14 September 2026Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, at the conclusion of my 1-minute remarks, I ask to receive the attention of the Speaker to pose a clause 2(a)(1), rule IX resolution, a privileged resolution. I will bring this resolution because there is a President who is committing impeachable offenses, and this is the solution for this President. Mr. Speaker, I await recognition for my resolution. ____________________”
House of Representatives14 September 2026Source ↗
“I can tell you, I will stand with the victims. I have been censured, not silenced. I will stand with the victims. I will stand with their families. I will do so because Rosa Parks was right: On some issues, it is better to stand alone than not stand at all. I will feel good about myself. How will you feel about yourself if you stand with the President and against these victims and their families? Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“Will you stand for justice, or are you going to stand against the victims? When you take that vote to table, just remember: If you vote to table, you are standing against these victims. You are standing with the President if you vote to table. If you vote to table, you are standing for the injustice that has been perpetrated. If you vote not to table, then you are standing with these victims-- justice for them. You are standing for justice for the families of the victims. {time} 1210 I say to you, my dear brothers and sisters, my friends, my fellow Members of Congress, vote for justice. Vote not to table so that there can be some justice for these victims and their families. Otherwise, you are voting with a President who is engaged in a coverup, and you are voting to table the lives that have been lost.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“We would rather say: Well, he is blocking; they won't let us see; there is a lack of transparency. Well, that is the coverup. It is okay to say it. So he is engaged in this coverup. Where do you stand? Where do you stand in times of challenge and controversy, not in times of comfort and convenience, when all of your bills are paid, all is right with the world, and you are on vacation. That is not the truest measure. Where do you stand in times of challenge and controversy, when lives have been lost, when people have died at the hands of officers who were judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner? Where do you stand? That is the question before this House today. Where do you stand? Will you stand with the lives that have been lost, to bring some justice to them? Will you stand for justice for the families of these victims?”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“King reminds us, in one of his better known quotes, that ``injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'' Injustice for these four people is a threat to justice in your community and to you. To know that it can be covered up ought to be an affront. I suppose, when the first person's life was taken, we bemoaned it, and we were very much upset about it. That was Renee. At that point, we didn't know that there would be Alex to follow. We didn't know that there would be Lorenzo. We didn't know that there would be Johan. Injustice against Renee was a threat to justice against the other three. We didn't know it at the time. ``Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'' We know not for whom the bell will toll next as it relates to these injustices. We have got to stop it. We can't wait until we have a majority to stop it.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“The truth is, the President is engaged in a coverup--in a coverup. The President knows that he should not have spoken so quickly about the lives that were lost. Before there was any investigation, he proclaimed the officers innocent--not with those exact words, but by talking about them and demeaning the victims, proclaiming that the officers, in some cases, were victims. Those people who lost their lives, their families are still suffering. So the President, having done this--and I have given you the truth today--the question becomes: What are we going to do? What are we going to do? I enjoy quoting Dr. King, as you can see. He has another quote that I will paraphrase, that I am quite fond of. Dr.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“King goes on to say, ``A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice.'' That is what we have been talking about: Justice for persons whose lives were taken at the hands of a paramilitary force, a vicious paramilitary force, a vicious paramilitary force driven by a quota system, a quota system that has caused persons to lose their lives at the hands of persons who were judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner. That, my friends, is an injustice. So when a man refuses to stand--I would say person--refuses to stand for justice, the man is dying, or has died in some cases, I suppose. But Dr. King then goes on to say, ``A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.'' ``A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.'' Friends, I have spoken truth not only to power but about power today.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“You can do the research. I am going to give you Dr. King's actual quote now. Dr. King had a powerful quote that has been reduced to these words. Here is the quote of Dr. Martin Luther King. Dr. King reminds us--I think I will hold this one. This is a precious quote. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., March 8, 1965--a significant day, because on March 8, 1965, it was the day after Bloody Sunday, the day after Bloody Sunday. These are the words of Dr. King. He proclaimed: ``A man dies''--I would paraphrase and say a person. ``A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.'' When he refuses to stand up for that which is right, a man dies. Well, I think that standing up for justice for the four persons that I have called to your attention is right. Standing up is right. I think we should take a stand. Dr.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“There will be Republicans and Democrats who are going to vote to table these lives. What is wrong with us? Once they are tabled, they will go into a never-never land, a committee, never to be heard from again, or when we have a majority, when we can win, then we will take them up. No. We may take them up, but we won't avoid the vote. There has to be a vote. Here is why there has to be a vote. Many people like to quote Dr. King. They like to talk about Dr. King's quote, wherein he proclaimed: Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. Many people like to quote this: Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. Well, actually, that is not Dr. King's quote. Let's just say it is. It has been paraphrased. This is not his quote. Someone has paraphrased it.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“A vote was taken as it relates to a Member. No details will be given, not necessary, but a vote was taken. This was accountability. We dealt with accountability while we were dealing with affordability. We can take another vote. We are talking about a vote in the Congress of the United States of America for righteous Articles of Impeachment, for lawful Articles of Impeachment, but there won't be this vote if the people have their way. There won't be the vote because there will be people who are going to say: Let's table it. How can you table the injustice that is taking place? How can you table this? What is wrong with you? {time} 1200 You are going to vote to table these lives that have been lost--this is an injustice--one, two, three, four of them. At some point justice has to prevail. No.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“These are all injustices that have been perpetrated, and they have all been perpetrated this year, and the courts can't deal with it; the Justice Department won't deal with it; and the local constabulary can't because they don't have the evidence. We have to take it up. We are the court of last resort. To say that we can wait until we get a majority, or to say that, no, we are not going to address these issues at all, how can we say this knowing that we have a Constitution? Are we saying that we will allow impeachable offenses to just go on and nothing happen? You are shredding the Constitution. It will be meaningless. These lives have been lost, and there must be justice for these persons. Accountability and affordability can occur at the same time, the same time. We had accountability right here in this House just yesterday.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“He was trying to get his documentation so that he could move forward and become a citizen. This man did not deserve the death that was imposed upon him by these officers. We, last time I looked, did not know the names of the persons involved. We don't know who killed him, but there should be some justice for him. July 7, 2026--nothing said. Mr. Johan Sebastian Duran, the allegation that I have read is that he was moving away, so he was no threat to the officer, but the officer had concluded that he might be a threat to the community. No arrest warrant for him, no arrest warrant. We cannot allow this to happen. This is an injustice.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“That is what happened to Lorenzo. He was driving a white van. There was no warrant for his arrest. He hadn't been charged with anything. This man was on his way to work. He was on his way to work with others in the van with him. These were persons who work out in the sun, persons who do the labor, the hard labor, but they were working. He was taking care of a family, raising children. This man, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, is the kind of person who we want in the United States of America. He is the kind of person who this country ought to be looking for. We have to pay some taxes so that we can take care of some Social Security issues that are going to manifest themselves around the year 2033. This man is paying into that system. He could be paying into that system.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“This paramilitary force that the President is operating, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE; and Customs and Border Protection, CBP, as his vicious--and they are vicious. Look at the behavior. Look at the way that they talk about how they will treat people. They are bullies. I am not saying all people in these departments are bullies, but I am saying the ones that have shown themselves to be bullies ought to be identified, and it should be said that they are, because they taint the image of the ones who are not. In any event, vicious--they are acting as his vicious, quota-driven-- they have a quota. They are trying to reach a quota of 2,000 per day. If you are in Houston, Texas, and you have a white van and you look like you are Latino, you are suspect. You are suspect, and you are going to have to show your papers.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“There has been no justice, no justice for her; no indication that justice is over the horizon, none; no indication that there is an indictment or that there is some rationale for just moving forward. Just let time pass, and eventually, enough time will pass such that these issues won't be as important and you can announce that, for whatever reasons, the officers acted appropriately. We saw what happened to Nicole. We saw what happened to Ms. Renee Nicole Good on January 7, 2026. We are now in the month of September. No justice. Alex Pretti lost his life on January 24, 2026. We saw what happened to Alex Pretti. No justice. These victims deserve justice. Their families deserve justice. I rise today in the name of justice for the victims: Lorenzo, July 7, 2026--no justice, no justice.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“That is what affordability is all about. Affordability is about the necessities of life, and we ought to have it. There is also something called accountability, and you can have affordability and accountability at the same time. Do not believe that Congress cannot walk and chew gum at the same time. Do not believe that, on a daily basis, we don't do many different things at the same time, every day. There are some people who would have you believe that you have to sacrifice accountability to have affordability. It is not true. Let's talk about accountability as it relates to the topic today. Accountability is about saving lives. It is about lives that are lost. It is about Renee Nicole Good, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero. By the way, Nicole lost her life on January 7, 2026.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“Not everybody has been as blessed as I am, and I ought not assume that because I have been blessed and I have had opportunities, that everybody else is going to have the same opportunities that I have had. Life isn't that way. In any event, I am for affordability. Affordability is about the necessities of life. Affordability is about food, water, shelter, clothing, healthcare, among other things. People ought to be able to afford these things. In the richest country in the world, people should be able to have healthcare for everybody. If you are sick, you get healthcare because you are sick and not because you can buy it. It is because you are sick. There is a way to have the healthcare, and I won't go through that issue today, but healthcare. Everybody has to have clothing. Everybody has to have shelter, water, and food.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“It is all within his hands, within the hands of a person who has the pen that can pardon, without giving any reasonable explanation as to why. That is where we are. Now, there is a lot of talk about affordability. I think I need to address affordability as it relates to what is happening to these persons that I have just talked about. {time} 1150 Affordability, this is so important that I think I will hold it in my hand. Affordability, I support affordability. I have been supporting affordability all of my life because all of my life, most of it, I should say, I couldn't afford a good many of the things that others took for granted, but I have been blessed. I have been blessed.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“For informational purposes, I have found no place where the President has called the family members who are the survivors of the victims--at least a phone call, no expression of sympathy to those families, nothing said that I have found. If I am wrong, I am sure that there will be people who will correct me, and I would gladly have the correction made. I know of at least one family where it hasn't been done. The President was in Houston, Texas. The President could have gone by the family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He could have gone by. He didn't do it. He could have said: Come over where I am. I have no evidence of it. If there is evidence of it, I am sure it will be exposed when appropriate. I will then gladly thank the President for doing it, but right now I condemn him for not doing it based upon the evidence that I have.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“He is, at some point, going to wait long enough before there is some announcement made, and at that point, the locals won't have enough evidence to do anything. Only the Federal authorities can do something if something is to be done. As a result, he can say to them: This is about nothing. This is not about anything. We have examined this--and they always give very few facts to support their commentary, their contentions. This is about nothing. It is all over. We have waited a long time. Don't worry about it. It is all over. Well, it is not all over for those persons who lost their lives. It is not over for those family members.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“What do you do when the President says: Stop me. He tells the Supreme Court: I dare you, stop me. I am going to complete my ballroom. Now, what are you going to do? So they avoid that confrontation, but that confrontation would let the American people know who we are dealing with--a reckless, ruthless, lawless authoritarian. That is what he is. The Supreme Court could have stopped him, and he would have to either have this Congress, or maybe when he is out of office, then the next Congress could proceed with a President who would come to the Congress and ask for its righteous opportunity to give the word to spend the money necessary to do what the President is attempting to do. It could have been done. How does all of that relate to what I am saying? Because the President is dealing with fait accompli politics here.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“This is the President speaking now: Let me finish. This is fait accompli politics, to put yourself in a position where you can say to the Supreme Court of the United States of America: You can't stop me now. We have crossed the Rubicon. We have gone past the point of no return. We can only go forward now. But the Supreme Court could have stopped him. The Supreme Court should have said to the President: Mr. President, you stop now until you get the consent of Congress. Stop. And if you don't have the consent of Congress, don't move forward. But the Supreme Court is afraid to say that. Why?”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“So you decide to do it, and you move forward expeditiously, posthaste, without any reservations. People decide they are going to sue and bring it to the attention of the courts. You use every tactic that you can to prevent it from getting to a court that might give some semblance of justice. But by the time it finally gets to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court now has to grapple with a project that they say--this is the President--is some 60 percent finished. So, as a result, the President is saying: Hey, too late, too late. You have to let me finish because we have this big hole in the ground. You have to let me finish because we need this basement to secure the President and others if there is some sort of attack on the Capitol or on the White House itself, so you have to let me finish.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“You cannot bring back what only God can give, and that is the gift of life. You can't bring it back once it is gone. We have the duty, responsibility, and a moral obligation to check this President at every point. We ought to file Articles of Impeachment regularly because the impeachable offenses are there. We have to do this. We have to expose fait accompli politics. Here is a good example of what fait accompli politics is all about: Decide that you, as President, want a ballroom, so you decide that you are going to raze, destroy, if you will, a portion of what we call the White House so that you can construct your ballroom. In constructing your ballroom, you decide that you are just going to demolish, to raze a portion of the people's House without the consent of Congress, which is what he has already done.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“This is what we have to do to let a reckless, ruthless, lawless President know that, even if we don't succeed, we are going to expose. We are going to expose the coverup. We are going to expose what is happening. That exposure can prevent, I say possibly prevent, this President from continuing with the reckless, ruthless behavior that we are calling to his attention in the Articles of Impeachment. That exposure says people are watching you. We are going to stop you. This President deals in what I call fait accompli politics. {time} 1140 He does things until you stop him. Then you can sometimes wait too long to try and stop him, and the injustice that has been perpetrated cannot be undone. You can't bring back these lives, but you can prevent other lives from being lost.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“He wrote a letter from that jail in response to their protests, and in doing it, it has become one of the great reads of all time, his letter from the Birmingham jail where he explicates what invidious discrimination, known as segregation, was really all about. I don't know that we would have the equivalent of the letter from the Birmingham jail without Dr. King having gone to the Birmingham jail. That letter is something that I think was inspired within him because of what had happened to him, the letter from the Birmingham jail. If you haven't read it, you should, but before you read it, read the letter that the persons wrote who were protesting against Dr. King's coming. By the way, they had every right to protest. Dr. King didn't wait. We cannot wait until we have a majority. This is not disrespecting anyone else.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“As a result, a Texas President at the time, a former Governor of Texas, Lyndon Johnson, was able to sign into law the Civil Rights Act that probably has allowed me to serve in Congress for the many years that I have. He signed it into law because they didn't wait until they had a majority. They did the righteous thing, not just the right thing, and they moved forward. Waiting, in this case that we are presenting today, would only expose others to possible death. This is a matter of life and death. John Lewis, peacefully protesting at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, not waiting for a majority. The majority is a wonderful thing to have, but it is not necessary to expose corruption. It is not necessary to expose injustice. It is not necessary to expose a lack of transparency.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“He and I conversed many times. We conversed here on the floor on occasion. We conversed in other places, including a jail cell, and we talked about these things. He told me himself that he thought he was going to die on that bridge. They beat him brutally, and they beat the people who were marching peacefully all the way back to Brown Chapel, the church where they started. They beat them back to a church where peaceful protesters aligned themselves and were marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, peacefully. They could have waited, but they knew the necessity to act, notwithstanding having a majority on their side. Lo and behold, that act of peaceful protest was captured by cameras and exposed globally to the citizens of the world.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“I will give you examples of people who concluded that they just couldn't wait; they moved forward and how they have made a difference: Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks could not wait. She could have waited for lawsuits. She could have waited for people to meet and negotiate and come to some conclusion as to why Black people shouldn't have to sit in the back of the bus at all times, and if there were not enough seats for Whites, then Blacks would have to stand on the bus. She could have waited for litigation to proceed or negotiation. No. Rosa Parks decided she would engage in a protest, a one-person protest. One person can make a difference. Sometimes it is better to stand alone than not stand at all. Rosa Parks is a supreme, superb example of what one person can do when you are engaged in a righteous cause.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“{time} 1130 At the next opportunity, the next reasonable opportunity that I have that is available to me, I plan to come before this House and read the Articles of Impeachment so that we may bring them to a vote. That is a part of the process, but the point is, this House of Representatives is now the court of last resort. The Justice Department won't prosecute. Local investigators can't prosecute because they don't have enough evidence. The Judiciary can't act because there is not a case before it. That only leaves the House of Representatives as the court of last resort. A court of last resort should not wait until it can be assured that it has enough votes to win. That is not what courts of last resort do.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“There is no necessity for the House of Representatives to conclude that what happened to Alex Pretti has to be investigated over some long period of time. That is absolutely not necessary. When Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868, Article X did not have a prolonged investigation. Article X moved forward to the Senate. We have the opportunity to do what we should do, and we should do it in short order because this is a matter of life and death, a matter of life and death. I am withholding bringing the articles that I have presented to this House because I want to make sure that people have an understanding of what they are voting for.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“We have now the only place where we can receive justice, justice for the victims, justice for persons who have been killed, the only place where the coverup can be exposed and talked about, can be presented to the public so that the transparency necessary to make the case for impeachment can prevail. That place is right here in the House of Representatives. This is the place. This is also the place where we have the opportunity to bring before the public some of what appears to be evidence as to what happened. In each of these cases that I have called to your attention, the evidence is very much apparent. The evidence is there because we have seen it on television. The belief that you have to have some prolonged investigation is not correct.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗
“In fact, the person who now heads the Justice Department has gone so far as to say that he is the President's lawyer, and he is acting like he believes he is the President's lawyer. One would think that the Justice Department would be out front, transparency presented, and want the American people to understand exactly what has happened and want the American people to appreciate the fact that the wheels of justice are turning in the right direction. Not so. Not this Justice Department. The courts: One would say, well, the courts can resolve this. The courts can resolve it because the courts have the power to issue judgment--only, however, when there is a case before the court. The cases for these four persons that I have called to your attention are not before the court. As a result, the court cannot act. The Justice Department can't act.”
House of Representatives3 September 2026Source ↗