Rep. Andy Harris calls second Trump impeachment 'wrong way to go,' says he will run for a sixth Congressional term
William Carter, WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and FM 101.5
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Congressman Andy Harris spoke with Andrew Langer on President Trump's second impeachment and made an announcement of his own.
"This is the wrong way to go," Harris said.
"It makes a mockery of the Constitution. Bottom line is impeachment is very serious, it's not to be taken lightly… The Democrats have been taking it lightly for four years now."
Despite the 10 Republicans who voted alongside Democrats to impeach Trump, Harris continues to defend challenging the election results.
Harris voted against the first impeachment and did not get to vote this year, calling it a "shame/snap impeachment." Harris did not show up to the recent House session when Trump was impeached as he was working with patients during that time.
"I was driving to Washington to vote when the vote was being taken and never made it in time. It's because they only scheduled one hour debate for each side," which Harris says is "unbelievable" to have just an hour debate.
Harris is in this fifth term in office. In January 2013, he introduced a joint resolution to limit the number of consecutive terms a person could serve in the Congress to two consecutive terms in the Senate and six consecutive terms in the House.
In January 2013, Harris issued a statement, saying: "Limiting Congressional terms is a common-sense way to change Washington and make sure our elected leaders work for the people instead of the special interests. We need more citizen leaders who are willing to address our challenges instead of coming to Washington to become career politicians. Far too many of our leaders are more worried about the next election than addressing out of control spending or preserving our entitlement programs. We need to break the gridlock in Washington caused in part by career politicians."
When asked Saturday whether he will run for a sixth term, Harris said the fight isn't over.
"The situation is very different from then, no one would have anticipated that we have the pushback from liberals and socialists that we have. I view this as when I was in the military, you sign up for a certain amount of years, but at the end of that you say, 'Look, if the job's not done, I'm re-upping.' So at this point in time, I'm re-upping. The bottom line is this fight is not over. We have very serious threats," Harris said. "In the end, it's going to be up to the people in the 1st Congressional District and the Republican Primary voters to put me on the ballot in the general election to keep me in Washington, but at this point in time, I'm re-upping for this fight."
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— Rep. Andy Harris, MD (@RepAndyHarrisMD) January 13, 2021
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