Rep. Dan Newhouse, a Republican from Washington, called out Rep. Cedric Richmond, a Democrat from Louisiana, after the latter was caught watching professional golf during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on impeachment.
Newhouse rebuked his colleague while he spoke on the House floor Wednesday in the lead-up to the House’s vote on impeachment. The House is expected to vote to impeach President Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The Senate is not expected to remove him from office.
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The representative from Washington’s 4th District singled Richmond out after he was caught watching the second day of the Presidents Cup, which took place last week, while the House Judiciary Committee debated articles of impeachment.
What on earth is Democrat Rep. Cedric Richmond watching on his laptop during this impeachment markup?
To me, it looks like Rep. Richmond is watching the President’s Cup golf tournament.
Richmond’s actions are a DISGRACE. #StopTheMadness pic.twitter.com/NloZVJCtHc
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) December 13, 2019
“The people’s House should be better than this,” he said. “We should be better than this. During a member’s remarks in the Judiciary Committee, the committee’s impeachment proceedings, he stated, and I quote, ‘To my Republican colleagues, how do you want to be remembered during this watershed moment?'”
“It won’t be watching sports on a laptop during official Judiciary Committee proceedings to impeach a sitting president. It won’t be using expletives to refer to our president, calling for his impeachment just hours after being sworn into Congress. … My fellow Republican colleagues and I won’t be remembered in history for doing any of those things because we know this is far too grave a matter for subversion such as these of our democratic republic. We should all be better than this,” Newhouse continued.
