'Crickets': Dem rep slams GOP on House floor for accomplishing 'nothing' with majority

Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colorado) took his Republican colleagues to task for failing at the most basic aspects of governing in a blistering floor speech on Wednesday.

"Republicans have had a majority in this House for 11 months. And what do they have to show for it? Nothing," Neguse said. "No efforts to grow the middle class, no efforts to lower costs, no efforts to build safer communities. Instead, an effort to default on our nation's debt, two attempts to shut down the government. Vacating their own speaker, and now a baseless impeachment that they are pursuing for one reason and one reason alone: Because former President Trump ordered them to do so."

"You ask them to articulate what crime they are investigating, you ask them to identify any evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden? Crickets," Neguse continued. "Mr. Speaker, the American people, I can assure you, are deeply disappointed in the actions that House Republicans have taken for the better part of the last year. And this action is no different."

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Neguse's comments come the day after a contentious hearing concerning the Biden impeachment inquiry in the House Rules Committee on Tuesday. Republicans are claiming that Biden should be impeached in relation to his son, Hunter's foreign business dealings. However, the House GOP has yet to produce any evidence directly tying President Biden to Hunter's overseas activities.

Meanwhile, the House GOP's impeachment inquiry has been widely panned even in conservative circles. In a recent segment on far-right outlet Newsmax, host Rob Finnerty openly cast doubt on the GOP's impeachment goals, calling it an "exercise in futility." Finnerty said that even if the House successfully impeached Biden, that it would be "dead on arrival" in the US Senate, where Democrats have the majority. He added that it could even make Biden a stronger general election candidate in 2024.

Neguse's speech echoes that of Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), who is not only a member of the House Republican Conference, but a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus. In November, Roy unleashed on his party, asking his colleagues to "explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done."

"For the life of me, I do not understand how you can go to the trouble of campaigning, raising money, going to events, talking to people, coming to this town as a member of a party who allegedly stands for something…and then do nothing about it," Roy said. "One thing: I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing—one—that I can go campaign on and say we did. One!"

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