To the Editor:

Re “Key G.O.P. Senator Will Oppose Move for New Evidence” (front page, Jan. 31):

The parsing of words by Republicans has become so creative that it’s stunning. Senator Lamar Alexander said in his statement on Thursday that President Trump’s call to the president of Ukraine was “inappropriate.”

Calling your girlfriend to tell her the sweater she wore today made her look fat — that’s “inappropriate.” A call by the president to a foreign leader to say he would withhold appropriated funds until the leader investigated his opponent — that’s “extortion.”

Chris Nicole Prince

New York

Hospitable in Iowa