Rep. Tim Cole (R-Okla.) requests that debate time on impeachment resolution be expanded to four hours.
Democrats decline.
"It's a sad day for all of use," Cole says.
Democrats decline.
"It's a sad day for all of use," Cole says.
"On an issue as important as this, madam speaker, one hour of debate on a resolution written in the dark of night and marked up in a process where no Republican amendments were accepted is simply insufficient." -- Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.)
"Without due process and without a fair process that respects minority rights I do not believe the American people will regard this process as legitimate." -- Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.)
"It's clear that since the Democrats took control of the House of Representatives they have always intended to transform the Intelligence Committee into the impeachment committee." -- Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)
"What we're seeing among Democrats on the Intelligence Committee is like a cult. These are a group of people loyally following their leader as he bounces from one outlandish conspiracy theory to another and the media are the cult followers." -- Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)
"After today the Intelligence Committee ceases to exist. Oversight is not being done and we now have a full-fledged impeachment committee in the basement of the Capitol." -- Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)
"The fact of the matter is, I don't think there's any process that we can propose that Republicans who prefer to circle the wagon around this president and prevent us from getting to the truth would accept." -- Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.)
"Americans get fairness. They instinctively know this is an unfair and partisan process. They will see how unfair and partisan it is today when the vote happens on the floor of this House." Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)
