Rep. Katie Porter Calls for Trump’s Impeachment

EXCERPT:

PORTER: "Hi, I'm Congresswoman Katie Porter. Today I wanted to speak directly to the people of California's 4th District. There's been a lot of noise in D.C. and the press about impeachment so I wanted to share my thoughts with you. I've spent hours reading and analyzing the Constitution, articles written by reading scholars, and the 200-year history of our democracy and its system of checks and balances. After weeks of study, deliberation, and conversations with Orange County families, I've decided to support an impeachment investigation of the President. I have not come to this easily. I come to this decision after much deliberation, and I know deeply what this means for our democracy.

I didn't come to Congress to impeach the President. I ran to use my decades of consumer advocacy to help Orange County families. I ran to fight back against Big Pharma and outrageous prescription drug pricing,to help families with the crushing cost of childcare, and to take on the affordable housing crisis hurting our community. And I will continue to do those things and much more. But when faced with a crisis of this magnitude, I cannot with a clean conscience ignore my duty to defend the Constitution. I can't claim to be committed to rooting out corruption and putting people over politics, and then not apply those same principles and standards in all of the work I do.”