Washington – Ahead of the vote today on the House Democrats’ impeachment resolution, Wyoming Congresswoman and House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) delivered remarks on the House floor Thursday morning denouncing House Democrats for using the House Intelligence Committee to pursue their partisan impeachment efforts while turning away from ongoing national security threats. Click here to watch to her full remarks and see the transcript below:

REP. CHENEY: Thank you very much and thank you to our Republican leader of the Rules Committee for yielding to me. Madame Speaker, we have heard a lot this morning already — a desire, a desperation almost on the part of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that the nation take this body seriously, then they need to start acting like they take themselves seriously, Madame Speaker.

When we are here gathered discussing this most grave and solemn obligation we have, addressing impeachment, we know, Madame Speaker, what a serious process would look like. We have seen it before. We have seen members on both sides of this aisle in the past, when we’ve been engaged in the impeachment of a President, act in a way that is serious, reflects the dignity of this body, and reflects the importance of the Constitution. That is the opposite, Madame Speaker, of what we have seen so far. And no matter what my colleagues say about this legislation, no matter what my colleagues say about the process they’ve been engaged in to date, it is absolutely the case that it has been a secret process that has denied rights to the minority, that has involved leaking selectively things that the majority would like to have leaked, in which rights have absolutely been denied, and they cannot fix that. They cannot fix what has been a tainted record and a tainted process by now suddenly pretending that they’re opening it up.

And Madame Speaker, let me say one other thing. Every time I hear my colleagues on the other side of the aisle talk about efforts to somehow undermine national security for political gain, I can’t help but think about what they are doing precisely this morning. When we are facing the threats we are facing as a nation and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Schiff and others, take what is arguably the single most important national security committee in this body, the House Intelligence Committee, and they tell the House Intelligence Committee, turn away from those threats, do not focus on oversight, do not focus on the challenges we face, and instead we are going to consume you in a political partisan process to impeach the President of the United States. 

Madame Speaker, my colleagues on the Democratic side of the aisle will be held accountable by history for what they are doing, they have absolutely no right to talk about threats to this nation if they are diverting the full attention, resources, and focus of the House Intelligence Committee onto a sham political process run by Chairman Schiff and Speaker Pelosi. I urge my colleagues to oppose this resolution and I yield back the balance of my time.