January 25, 2021 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S125 Resolved, That Mr. Raskin, Ms. stitution of the , and in moval from office, and disqualification DeGette, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Castro of violation of his constitutional duty to to hold and enjoy any office of honor, Texas, Mr. Swalwell, Mr. Lieu, Ms. take care that the laws be faithfully trust, or profit under the United Plaskett, Mr. Neguse, and Ms. Dean are executed—Donald John Trump engaged States. appointed managers to conduct the im- in high Crimes and Misdemeanors by NANCY PELOSI, Speaker of the House peachment trial against Donald John inciting violence against the Govern- of Representatives. Trump, President of the United States, ment of the United States, in that: Mr. President, that completes the ex- that a message be sent to the Senate to On January 6, 2021, pursuant to the hibition of the Article of Impeachment inform the Senate of these appoint- 12th Amendment to the Constitution of against Donald John Trump, President ments, and that the managers so ap- the United States, the Vice President of the United States. The managers re- pointed may, in connection with the of the United States, the House of Rep- quest that the Senate take order for preparation and the conduct of the resentatives, and the Senate met at the the trial. The managers now request trial, exhibit the articles of impeach- United States Capitol for a Joint Ses- leave to withdraw. ment to the Senate and take all other sion of Congress to count the votes of The PRESIDENT pro tempore. actions necessary, which may include the Electoral College. In the months Thank you, Mr. Manager RASKIN. The the following: preceding the Joint Session, President Senate will duly notify the House of (1) Employing legal, clerical, and Trump repeatedly issued false state- Representatives when it is ready to other necessary assistants and incur- ments asserting that the Presidential proceed with the trial. ring such other expenses as may be election results were the product of You may proceed to depart. necessary, to be paid from amounts widespread fraud and should not be ac- The majority leader. available to the Committee on the Ju- cepted by the American people or cer- Mr. SCHUMER. I suggest the absence diciary under applicable expense reso- tified by State or Federal officials. of a quorum. lutions or from the applicable accounts Shortly before the Joint Session com- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The of the House of Representatives. menced, President Trump, addressed a clerk will call the roll. (2) Sending for persons and papers, crowd at the Ellipse in Washington, The senior assistant legislative clerk and filing with the Secretary of the DC. There, he reiterated false claims proceeded to call the roll. Senate, on the part of the House of that ‘‘we won this election, and we won Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I Representatives, any pleadings, in con- it by a landslide’’. He also willfully ask unanimous consent that the order junction with or subsequent to, the ex- made statements that, in context, en- for the quorum call be rescinded. hibition of the articles of impeachment couraged—and foreseeably resulted in— The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. that the managers consider necessary. lawless action at the Capitol, such as: SMITH). Without objection, it is so or- NANCY PELOSI, Speaker of the House ‘‘if you don’t fight like hell you’re not dered. of Representatives. going to have a country anymore’’. With the permission of the Senate, I Thus incited by President Trump, f will now read the Article of Impeach- members of the crowd he had ad- UNANIMOUS CONSENT ment, House Resolution 24. dressed, in an attempt to, among other AGREEMENT HOUSE RESOLUTION 24 objectives, interfere with the Joint In the House of Representatives, Session’s solemn constitutional duty Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I U.S., January 13, 2021. to certify the results of the 2020 Presi- ask unanimous consent that notwith- Impeaching Donald John Trump, dential election, unlawfully breached standing Rule III of the Senate Rules President of the United States, for high and vandalized the Capitol, injured and of Impeachment, at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, crimes and misdemeanors. killed law enforcement personnel, men- January 26, 2021, the Senate proceed to Resolved, that Donald John Trump, aced Members of Congress, the Vice the consideration of the Article of Im- President of the United States, is im- President, and Congressional per- peachment of Donald John Trump, peached for high crimes and mis- sonnel, and engaged in other violent, former President of the United States. demeanors and that the following arti- deadly, destructive, and seditious acts. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without cle of impeachment be exhibited to the President Trump’s conduct on Janu- objection, it is so ordered. ary 6, 2021, followed his prior efforts to United States Senate: f Article of impeachment exhibited by subvert and obstruct the certification the House of Representatives of the of the results of the 202 Presidential AUTHORIZING THE TAKING OF A United States of America in the name election. Those prior efforts included a PHOTOGRAPH IN THE CHAMBER of itself and of the people of the United phone call on January 2, 2021, during OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE States of America, against Donald which President Trump urged the sec- retary of state of Georgia, Brad Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I John Trump, President of the United ask unanimous consent that the Sen- States of America, in maintenance and Raffensperger, to ‘‘find’’ enough votes to overturn the Georgia Presidential ate proceed to the consideration of S. support of its impeachment against Res. 15, submitted earlier today. him for high crimes and misdemeanors. election results and threatened Sec- retary Raffensperger if he failed to do The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Article I: Incitement of Insurrection so. clerk will report the resolution by The Constitution provides that the In all this, President Trump gravely title. House of Representatives ‘‘shall have endangered the security of the United The bill clerk read as follows: the sole Power of Impeachment’’ and States and its institutions of Govern- A resolution (S. Res. 15) authorizing the that the President ‘‘shall be removed ment. He threatened the integrity of taking of a photograph in the Chamber of from Office on Impeachment for, and the democratic system, interfered with the United States Senate. Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or the peaceful transition of power, and There being no objection, the Senate other high Crimes and Misdemeanors’’. imperiled a coequal branch of Govern- proceeded to consider the resolution. Further, section 3 of the 14th Amend- ment. He thereby betrayed his trust as Mr. SCHUMER. I ask unanimous con- ment to the Constitution prohibits any President, to the manifest injury of the sent that the resolution be agreed to person who has ‘‘engaged in insurrec- people of the United States. and the motion to reconsider be consid- tion or rebellion against’’ the United Wherefore, Donald John Trump, by ered made and laid upon the table with States from ‘‘hold[ing] any office . . . such conduct, has demonstrated that no intervening action or debate. under the United States’’. In his con- he will remain a threat to national se- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without duct while President of the United curity, democracy, and the Constitu- objection, it is so ordered. States—and in violation of his con- tion if allowed to remain in office, and The resolution (S. Res. 15) was agreed stitutional oath faithfully to execute has acted in a manner grossly incom- to. the office of President of the United patible with self-governance and the (The resolution is printed in today’s States and, to the best of his ability, rule of law. Donald John Trump thus RECORD under ‘‘Submitted Resolu- preserve, protect, and defend the Con- warrants impeachment and trial, re- tions.’’)

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:24 Feb 24, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD21\JANUARY\S25JA1.REC S25JA1 abonner on DSKJLXR7X2PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S126 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 25, 2021 REMEMBERING PAUL SARBANES ballroom, the bouzouki band would come Several of the multiple House votes to pass out, and everyone would dance for several the embargo and then override a presidential Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, all of more hours. Having attended these events veto succeeded by only a one-vote margin, us in this body mourn the recent pass- regularly in DC from the 1990s until COVID– recalls Andy Manatos, then an aide to Sen- ing of former Senator Paul Sarbanes. 19, I can attest that after the Senator intro- ator Tom Eagleton, who was successfully Those of us who served with him have duced his rule about a decade ago, the pro- championing similar embargo legislation in known him as one of the finest and ceedings tightened considerably, with the the Senate. ‘‘It would never have passed in most accomplished Senators with dancing commencing at a more civilized 10 the House without the esteem Paul and John whom we have served. And what a PM. enjoyed,’’ says Manatos, now the dean of It was at one of these dinners that I got to Greek-American lobbyists, adding that Sar- great pleasure it was to work with him, know Sarbanes personally when my late wife banes and Brademus were two of the three on so many issues. Kukula found herself seated next to him. She Rhodes Scholars then serving in that body. In addition to his impressive legisla- asked him what kind of cocktail he liked and The Turkish arms embargo—the first time tive accomplishments, Paul Sarbanes went to the bar to fetch it. The two of them in modern U.S. history that Congress suc- was one of the Senate’s keenest inter- spent the rest of the evening animatedly cessfully overturned the White House on a rogators and one of the Senate’s finest chatting about foreign affairs—Kuku, a jour- major foreign policy issue—lasted three and orators. In the Senate community, nalist and the daughter of a diplomat, had a half years before the Carter administration most of all we knew him for his wit, for strong and informed views on the subject. managed to get it repealed. But it was re- Our hosts Manny and Marilyn Rouvelas must placed by an agreement in Washington to his warmth and kindness, and for his have noticed, because the next year the place sell arms to and on a 7-to-10 decency. cards showed that Kuku was again seated basis in order to achieve a military balance I would like to call to the Senate’s next to the Senator. When she saw Sarbanes in the Aegean, an agreement Sarbanes vigor- attention an insightful remembrance of walk into the ballroom, she went to the bar ously defended for years after. Senator Sarbanes by Paul Glastris that and, remembering his drink of choice (it was Being seen as a fierce advocate for your was published this month by the Wash- one of her superpowers), had it waiting for own minority ethnic constituency can be ington Monthly. him when he arrived at the table. He was risky for any politician seeking higher of- fice. Sarbanes managed to pull it off in 1976 I ask unanimous consent that the ar- charmed and delighted; she felt the same about him. For years thereafter the two of when he became the first Greek American ticle be printed in the RECORD. them were annual dinner mates. There were elected to the U.S. Senate (he would be fol- There being no objection, the mate- far more powerful people in the room than lowed by Paul Tsongas and Olympia Snowe). rial was ordered to be printed in the Kuku, but the fact that Sarbanes was con- He was hardly a radical on the issue. ‘‘I met RECORD, as follows: tent to spend the evening talking with her today with a number of Cypriot foreign min- [From the , Jan. 1, 2021] told me everything I needed to know about isters’’ he would joke to friends after rebuff- ing, say, a group of Greek diner owners de- REMEMBERING PAUL SARBANES his character. ‘‘Unlike many of his contemporary office- manding he take stronger actions than the HOW WIT, INTEGRITY AND EXPERTISE MADE holders, Mr. Sarbanes was uncomfortable Cypriot government itself wanted. But over AMERICA’S FIRST GREEK AMERICAN SENATOR with the backslapping, glad-handing and the subsequent decades, through constant A BEHIND-THE-SCENES WASHINGTON POWER grandstanding that often go with public of- study and engagement with experts on the PLAYER. fice,’’ his Washington Post obituary reads. region, he built a reputation as the man to (By Paul Glastris) ‘‘He avoided the social and party circuit in see on anything regarding the Eastern Medi- There have been many fine tributes to the nation’s capital and rarely spent a night terranean—from Turkish air threats to former U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes of Mary- in Washington, preferring instead to drive Greek territory in the Aegean to the be- land, who passed away December 6 at age 87. home to his wife and children in Baltimore.’’ sieged Greek Orthodox patriarchate in These encomiums invariably note the near At these Greek dinners, however, Sarbanes Istanbul. Greek prime ministers sought his universal high regard he enjoyed in Wash- was in his element. While other politicians counsel. So too did U.S. presidents, secre- ington for his intelligence, integrity, humor, would drop by (it was a target-rich donor en- taries of state, and senior diplomats. ‘‘In and accomplishments—the latter consisting vironment), he would stay for hours, chat- that cerebral way of his, he would analyze mostly of liberal legislation he managed, via ting with the scores of people who would the whole situation and explain to people his other attributes, to get Republicans to come to the table to meet him, then eventu- what to do, who to talk to, what to be care- support. They include, while a young House ally excusing himself to work the room, ful of,’’ recalls Manatos. ‘‘He was hands down member, the articles of impeachment table by table, shaking every hand. far ahead of anyone else in Congress in his against Richard Nixon and, in the Senate, The way he brought order to those dinners thinking about these issues.’’ the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which tough- with his Sarbanes rule is a small illustration People underestimate, especially in the ened regulations and created government of what made the Senator effective and re- age of Trump, the degree to which knowledge oversight of corporate accounting practices spected in Washington. Born to Greek immi- can be power in Washington. Sarbanes did after the Enron debacle. He also served on grant restaurant owners in 1933, Sarbanes not. He ‘‘studied issues himself rather than the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee for earned scholarships and degrees from Prince- rely on staff talking points,’’ recalls John decades with Joe Biden and was a boss and ton, Oxford, and Harvard. He had an intellec- Sitilides, who worked with the Senator as a mentor to a number of the president-elect’s tual gift for getting to the heart of knotty GOP staffer on the Senate Banking Com- senior advisors, including Antony Blinken, problems and formulating wise solutions mittee before starting the Western Policy his nominee for secretary of state. with a wit that put his colleagues at ease. He Center, a security think tank focused on the But I want to focus on another set of his deployed this genius throughout his career, Eastern Mediterranean. His mastery of sub- deeds, ones associated with his role as the often in the service of selling unpopular but stance gave Sarbanes ‘‘the freedom to argue leading Greek American in Congress. They vitally necessary policies like the return of and discern based on his own knowledge,’’ begin with what has come to be known as the the Panama Canal. As former Democratic says Sitilides, which in turn earned him the ‘‘Sarbanes Rule.’’ Senate leader Thomas Daschle told the New confidence of Senators on both sides of the The rule dictates that ‘‘any Greek Amer- York Times, when ‘‘trying to persuade the aisle. That kind of power is typically wit- ican awards dinner should conclude on the caucus to do something difficult, I would use nessed only by insiders, though public same day it begins.’’ The Senator devised Paul to bring it home, to close the argu- glimpses of it can sometimes be caught. Nick this dictate after patiently sitting through ment.’’ Larigakis, executive director of the Amer- countless such dinners. They would go on in- In the Greek American community he is ican Hellenic Institute, notes that Sarbanes terminably due to the fact that the orga- most remembered for spearheading—along could be ‘‘relied upon to ask the tough and nizers, wanting to acknowledge as many ben- with another young Greek-American con- probing questions’’ on issues important to efactors as possible, would bring to the po- gressman, John Brademus—a 1974 House ef- Greek Americans at confirmation hearings dium a speaker (usually a wealthy Greek- fort to cut off U.S. arms sales to Turkey for US ambassadors to the region—an effec- American businessman) whose job it was to after that country invaded and occupied the tive way to keep Foggy Bottom on its toes. introduce another such speaker, who would independent majority-Greek-speaking nation If Sarbanes’ mind was legendary, so too then introduce another speaker, who would of Cyprus. The Nixon and Ford administra- was his rectitude. He managed a 40-year ca- finally present the award to the person who tions fiercely opposed the legislation because reer in politics—from his first election to the would then speak, typically at some length Turkey, a NATO ally, shared a militarized Maryland House of Delegates in 1967 to his (these are Greeks we’re talking about). border with the Soviet Union. But Sarbanes, retirement from the U.S. Senate in 2007— Since multiple honors were bestowed on Brademus, and others in the newly-activated without a hint of personal scandal. That’s no any given evening, the result was awards Greek American community countered on small feat for someone who rose through the ceremonies that began with cocktails at 6 not only moral but legal grounds: U.S. stat- often-corrupting culture of Maryland poli- PM but wouldn’t end until well after mid- ute, they correctly noted, specifically re- tics (Spiro Agnew, another Greek American night. At which point the priest would give quired the administration to cut off arms politician from Maryland, was not so care- the benediction, the color guard would sales to any country that used such weapons ful). Sarbanes enjoyed a 48-year marriage to march the U.S. and Greek flags out of the offensively. his wife Christine, who passed away in 2009.

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