Rep. Veasey Releases Statement Slamming Republicans On Sham Impeachment Vote

WASHINGTON - Rep. Marc Veasey released the following statement after he voted against a Republican-led resolution to authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden:

“There are many challenges that face hardworking families across our nation as we head into 2024. Instead of working with their colleagues across the aisle to tackle these problems, Republicans have once again wasted more time and American taxpayer dollars on cheap political stunts. 

“Impeachment articles are serious business and should only be used when there is little doubt that a high crime or misdemeanor took place. Both in 2019 and 2021, I made the decision to impeach Donald Trump because the facts leading up to those impeachments were damning. It was clear that first, Donald Trump tried to coerce another country’s leader to give information to launch an attack on a political opponent, and then Donald Trump incited a dangerous insurrection in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. 

“The impeachment inquiry authorization resolution that we voted on is political theater. Unlike Donald Trump, there is no evidence that President Biden broke the law or engaged in an impeachable offense. Republicans are only launching this at the direction of their puppetmaster, Donald Trump, who asked them to get back at President Biden because Trump is still not over the fact that he lost the 2020 election. Ultimately, these articles, drawn up by reckless, Radical Republicans, are unwarranted, irresponsible games of tit-for-tat that put politics over the people. And I’m not for that in our system.” 

“The American people deserve better. I, along with my fellow House Democrats, stand ready to actually deliver real results– not just cheap political stunts–to the American people.”