Read the full text of Speaker Pelosi's remarks announcing a formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump.
Good afternoon. Last Tuesday, we observed the anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution on September 17th. Sadly, on that day, the Intelligence Community Inspector General formally notified the Congress that the administration was forbidding him from turning over a whistleblower complaint on Constitution Day.
The law is unequivocal. The DNI staff, it says the DNI — DNI, Director of National Intelligence— shall provide Congress the full whistleblower complaint. For more than 25 years, I've served on the Intelligence Committee as a member — as the Ranking Member as part of the Gang of Four even before I was in the leadership.
On the final day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when our Constitution was adopted, Americans gathered on the steps of Independence Hall to await the news of a government our founders had crafted. They asked Benjamin Franklin,"what do we have, a republic or a monarchy?" Franklin replied,"a republic, if you can keep it." Our responsibility is to keep it.
The President must be held accountable. No one is above the law. Getting back to our founders, in the darkest days of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote that times have found us, that times found them to fight for and establish our democracy. The times have found us today. Shortly before Pelosi's public remarks, she made a statement in a meeting with her caucus. Read those remarks below.
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