Vice President Mike Pence quoted Ecclesiastes 3:3 — “A time to heal” — in his letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday, subtly reminding her that she had recently used that verse to call for an end to the country’s divisions.
Pence wrote to Pelosi to tell her that he would not invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office on the grounds of incapacity to serve.
“Last week I did not yield to pressure to exert power beyond my constitutional authority to determine the outcome of the election, and I will not now yield to efforts in the House of Representatives to play political games at a time so serious in the life of our Nation,” Pence said.
He added: “The Bible says that ‘for everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven . . . a time