The House Democrats’ advancement of a push to impeach President Donald Trump is nothing more than an effort to “satisfy a base who really do not like this president,” Republican Rep. Doug Collins told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” on Monday.
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee last Thursday set the ground rules for a formal committee inquiry as they took a major step in their push to impeach Trump.
But the Georgia congressman, who is the ranking member on the committee, said, "The reality is that they're not legislating," because they are so focused on impeachment.
Instead, Collins said, the only thing that happened last week was that “we took rules that were already in place. We packaged them up, we made it look different, we wanted people to think something is going on.”
Collins stressed that bills need bipartisan support in order to get passed. He also said that what is concerning to him is that the House is not passing legislation that “people worry about" such as “jobs, the economy, and immigration.”
The Democrats said they have passed more than 250 pieces of legislation in the House, and 80 percent of those are just sitting on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s desk, becasue he refuse to bring them to a vote.
Collins emphasized that the only way to move bills forward is for broad bipartisan support.
But “when you simply put out talking reports and make them into bills and give them over to the Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, with a Repulican president, those are the kinds of things that don’t move forward” and are just for show, Collins said.
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