E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 116 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION Vol. 166 WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 No. 21 House of Representatives The House was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Monday, February 3, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. Senate FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 The Senate met at 1:15 p.m. and was THE JOURNAL Mr. Chief Justice, Senators, fellow called to order by the Chief Justice of The CHIEF JUSTICE. If there is no House managers, and counsel for the the United States. objection, the Journal of proceedings of President, I know I speak for my fellow f the trial is approved to date. managers, as well as counsel for the The Deputy Sergeant at Arms will President, in thanking you for your TRIAL OF DONALD J. TRUMP, make the proclamation. careful attention to the arguments PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED The Deputy Sergeant at Arms, Jen- that we have made over the course of STATES nifer Hemingway, made the proclama- many long days. The CHIEF JUSTICE. The Senate tion as follows: Today, we were greeted to yet an- will convene as a Court of Impeach- Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! All persons are other development in the case when ment. commanded to keep silent, on pain of impris- the New York Times reported with a The Chaplain will lead us in prayer. onment, while the Senate of the United headline that says: PRAYER States is sitting for the trial of the articles Trump Told Bolton to Help His Ukraine The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- of impeachment exhibited by the House of Pressure Campaign, Book Says fered the following prayer: Representatives against Donald John Trump, The President asked his national security Let us pray. President of the United States. adviser last spring in front of other senior Eternal Lord God, you have summa- The CHIEF JUSTICE. The majority advisers to pave the way for a meeting be- leader is recognized. tween Rudolph Giuliani and Ukraine’s new rized ethical behavior in a single sen- leader. tence: Do for others what you would ORDER OF PROCEDURE According to the New York Times: like them to do for you. Remind our Mr. MCCONNELL. For the informa- tion of all colleagues, we will take a More than two months before he asked Senators that they alone are account- Ukraine’s president to investigate his polit- able to You for their conduct. Lord, break about 2 hours in. ical opponents, President Trump directed help them to remember that they can’t The CHIEF JUSTICE. Pursuant to John R. Bolton, then his national security ignore You and get away with it for we the provisions of S. Res. 483, the Senate adviser, to help with his pressure campaign always reap what we sow. has provided up to 4 hours of argument to extract damaging information on Demo- Have Your way, Mighty God. You are by the parties, equally divided, on the crats from Ukrainian officials, according to the potter. Our Senators and we are the question of whether or not it shall be an unpublished manuscript by Mr. Bolton. in order to consider and debate under Mr. Trump gave the instruction, Mr. clay. Mold and make us after Your Bolton wrote, during an Oval Office con- will. Stand up, omnipotent God. the impeachment rules any motion to versation in early May that included the act- Stretch Yourself and let this Nation subpoena witnesses or documents. ing White House chief of staff, Mick and world know that You alone are Mr. Manager SCHIFF, are you a pro- Mulvaney, the president’s personal lawyer sovereign. ponent or opponent? Rudolph W. Giuliani and the White House I pray in the Name of Jesus. Amen. Mr. Manager SCHIFF. Proponent. counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, who is now leading The CHIEF JUSTICE. Please join me The CHIEF JUSTICE. Mr. Cipollone, the President’s impeachment defense. in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to are you a proponent or opponent? You will see in a few moments—and the flag. Mr. CIPOLLONE. Opponent. you will recall Mr. Cipollone sug- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE The CHIEF JUSTICE. Mr. SCHIFF, gesting that the House managers were I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the you may proceed. concealing facts from this body. He United States of America, and to the Repub- Mr. Manager SCHIFF. Before I begin, said all the facts should come out. lic for which it stands, one nation under God, Mr. Chief Justice, the House managers Well, there is a new fact which indi- indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. will be reserving the balance of our cates that Mr. Cipollone was one of The CHIEF JUSTICE. Senators, time to respond to the argument of those who were in the loop—yet an- please be seated. counsel for the President. other reason why we ought to hear ∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. S753 . VerDate Sep 11 2014 21:48 Feb 12, 2020 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD20\JANUARY\S31JA0.REC S31JA0 sradovich on DSKJLST7X2PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S754 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 31, 2020 from witnesses. Just as we predicted— the House. The evidence in the record The House Republicans’ own expert and it didn’t require any great act of is sufficient. It is sufficient to convict witness in the House, Professor Turley, clairvoyance—the facts will come out. the President on both Articles of Im- said, if you could prove the President They will continue to come out. And peachment—more than sufficient. used our military aid to pressure the question before you today is wheth- But that is simply not how trials Ukraine to investigate a political rival er they will come out in time for you work. As any prosecutor or defense and interfere in our elections, it would to make a complete and informed judg- lawyer would tell you, when a case be an impeachable abuse of power. Sen- ment as to the guilt or innocence of goes to trial, both sides call witnesses ator GRAHAM, too, recognized that, if the President. and subpoena documents to bring be- such evidence existed, it could poten- Now, that Times article goes on to fore the jury. That happens every day tially change his mind on impeach- say: in courtrooms all across America. ment. Mr. Trump told Mr. Bolton to call There is no reason why this impeach- Well, we now have another witness— Volodymyr Zelensky, who had recently won ment trial should be any different. The a fact witness—who would reportedly election as president of Ukraine, to ensure commonsense practice is borne out of say exactly that. Ambassador Bolton’s Mr. Zelensky would meet with Mr. Giuliani, precedence. There has never been— new manuscript, which we will discuss who was planning a trip to Ukraine to dis- never before been—a full Senate im- in more detail in a moment, reportedly cuss the investigations that the President peachment trial without a single wit- confirms that the President told him in sought, in Mr. Bolton’s account. Mr. Bolton ness. In fact, you can see in the slide never made the call, he wrote. no uncertain terms—we are talking that in every one of the 15 prior im- about the former National Security ‘‘Never made the call.’’ Mr. Bolton peachment trials the Senate has called Advisor saying that the President told understood that this was wrong. He un- multiple witnesses. Today we ask you him in no uncertain terms—no aid to follow this body’s uniform prece- derstood that this was not policy. He until investigations, including the dence and your common sense. We urge understood that this was a domestic Bidens. political errand and refused to make you to vote in favor of subpoenaing For a week and a half, the President the call. witnesses and documents. has said no such evidence exists. They Now, I would like to address one The account in Mr. Bolton’s manuscript are wrong. If you have any doubt about question at the outset. There has been portrays the most senior White House advis- the evidence, the evidence is at your ers as early witnesses in the effort that they much back and forth about whether if fingertips. The question is: Will you let have sought to distance the President from. the House believes it has sufficient evi- dence to convict, which we do, why do all of us, including the American peo- Including the White House Counsel. ple, hear—simply hear—the evidence Over several pages— we need more witnesses and docu- ments? So I would like to be clear. The and make up their own minds? And you According to the Times— evidence presented over the past week can make up your own minds, but will Mr. Bolton laid out Mr. Trump’s fixation on and a half strongly supports a vote to we let the American people hear all of Ukraine and the president’s belief, based on convict the President. The evidence is the evidence? a mix of scattershot events, assertions and You will recall that Ambassador outright conspiracy theories, that Ukraine overwhelming. We have a mountain of evidence. It is direct, it is corroborated Bolton, the President’s former Na- tried to undermine his chances of winning tional Security Advisor, is one of the the presidency in 2016.