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Fitzgerald Statement on 25th Amendment Resolution

Statement

Date: Jan. 12, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Executive Branch Legislative Branch

U.S. Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05) made the following statement following his vote on H. Res. 21:

"Speaker Pelosi has taken the unprecedented action of urging the Vice President to improperly use the 25th Amendment to remove the powers of a sitting President. This legislation is both misguided, inappropriate, and clearly contrary to the intent of the Amendment, which was designed to address Presidential incapacity or disability. Furthermore, the Vice President has informed the Speaker that he has no intention of invoking the Amendment, making today's action purely a political exercise.

"The violence I saw firsthand last week is intolerable and unacceptable but Speaker Pelosi's plans to disempower the President with the 25th Amendment or remove him by impeachment are not the solution. The President has less than eight days remaining in his term and trying to impeach this President a second time, which has never happened before in the history of our country, is just one more divisive and political act."

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