January 29, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 19 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              BE LIKE AMERICA, DON'T BE LIKE SAUDI ARABIA

  (Mr. TED LIEU of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TED LIEU of California. Mr. Speaker, this morning, Donald Trump 
wrote on Twitter: ``Remember Republicans, the Democrats already had 17 
witnesses. We were given none. Witnesses are up to the House, not up to 
the Senate.''
  Both of his statements are false. In the House, there were multiple 
Republican-requested witnesses that testified under oath, some of them 
on national TV, and they were cross-examined by both Democrat and 
Republican committee members.
  In addition, under our Constitution, it is the Senate that runs 
trials. And Americans understand that in a trial you have witnesses and 
documents. In fact, a recent poll showed that 75 percent of Americans 
want the U.S. Senate to call in witnesses, witnesses like John Bolton.
  You know who runs trials without witnesses? Saudi Arabia.
  So my message to the U.S. Senate, controlled by Republicans, is very 
simple: Be like America. Don't be like Saudi Arabia.

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