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(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday that even Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) recognizes that House Democrats didn’t do their job in making the case for impeaching President Donald Trump, because Schumer asked for witnesses and more time.



“I will have to recognize that even the Senate, the minority leader in the Senate recognizes that the House did not do their job, because he can't make the case to his own members, so he’s having to ask for witnesses, ask for more time,” Collins said in a speech on the House floor during the impeachment debate.









The congressman found it “hilarious” also that Schumer complained during his press conference that Senate Republicans denied his witnesses, because that’s what House Republicans have had to contend with from House Democrats.



“You see, and even yesterday, it was sort of funny, I thought it hilarious. The minority leader in the Senate went out and did a press conference and said they denied my witnesses, they denied my request. Well welcome to the club, Mr. Schumer. That's exactly what's happened over here for the last three months,” Collins said.



Collins said House Democrats “can’t pin anything of a factual basis” on Trump when it comes to the charge of abuse of power.



“You know obstruction of Congress, as I've said before, is like petulant children saying, we didn't get our way when we didn’t ask the right way, and we didn't actually go after it and try to make a case. You know why, Madame Speaker? The clock and the calendar are terrible masters, and the majority will own this problem today, because to the clock and the calendar, facts don't matter,” he said.



“Their promises to the base matter, and today is a promise kept for the majority. Not a surprise, a fact,” he said.



Collins said the impeachment is “based on presumption” and it is “a poll-tested impeachment on what actually sells to the American people.”



“Today is going to be a lot of things. What it is not is fair. What it is not is about the truth,” he said.





