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WASHINGTON—Congressman Paul D. Tonko released the following statement today following a strong bipartisan vote in the House to advance H.Res. 24, Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors:

Today, my colleagues and I came together from across the partisan divide to stand on the side of truth and safeguard the founding principles of our democracy: we voted to impeach President Trump. He spent years using his bully pulpit to normalize violence and spread lies and conspiracy, all of which fed into his efforts to undermine the 2020 election and drove a mob to assault the Capitol last week in a siege that left six Americans dead—including two Capitol Police officers—and dozens injured, some of them permanently.

We cannot preach unity without justice. The more we learn about this seditious attack on the People’s House, the clearer it becomes that it was planned and orchestrated. We cannot claim to uphold our Constitutional oath unless we hold our leaders accountable for their actions. This president poses a real and imminent threat to our republic and our people every day he remains in power. I urge my Senate colleagues to uphold their sworn oath to the Constitution and remove Donald Trump from office immediately. If inciting deadly violence against a co-equal branch of government in the citadel of our democracy isn’t a removable offense, then nothing is.

The resolution text can be found HERE.

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