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Green has pushed to impeach Trump since 2017, and forced several votes on impeachment in the last session of Congress. On Tuesday, he took to the floor to introduce the measure, which cites Trump's attacks against four Democratic congresswomen of color. The House voted to condemn the president's Twitter attacks congresswomen of color on Tuesday, with four Republicans voting alongside Democrats.

Green said on Wednesday that the condemnation did not go far enough.

\"If you did what the president has done, you would be punished. What we've done so far doesn't fine him, and it does not remove him from his job. You would lose your jobs. The president cannot be above the law,\" he said.

Trump told reporters at the White House earlier Wednesday that he was \"enjoying\" his political fight with Democrats over his tweets and praised Republicans for standing with him during a vote in the House on Tuesday that condemned his attacks on the congresswomen.

Asked if he relished the back and forth, he said he was \"not relishing the fight -- I'm enjoying it. Because I have to get the word out to the American people, and you have to enjoy what you do. I enjoy what I do.\"

The president dug in on his suggestion on Twitter Sunday that the congresswomen of color should \"go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.\"

\"If people want to leave our country they can,\" Trump said, before departing for a campaign rally in North Carolina. \"If they don’t want to love our country, if they don’t want to fight for our country, they can. I’ll never change on that.\"

Trump said he thought he was winning the political fight with Democrats \"by a lot,\" because, he said, the congresswomen he attacked \"are not espousing the views our country.\"

Nearly 60 Democrats backed an earlier version of Green's measure in December 2017, which was successfully killed by Republican leaders at the time.

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But with the House now in Democrats' hands, the subject is one that party leaders have been reluctant to take up, and have instead called for the continued investigation of the president and the Trump administration.

Democrats harbor political concerns about the vote -- dozens of moderate freshmen would rather discuss the party's agenda than take up impeachment before they return home for the six-week August recess. And while at least 86 House Democrats support launching impeachment proceedings against Trump, according to an ABC News analysis, some said they considered Green's effort premature ahead of special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony next week.

Green's impeachment resolution made no mention of the findings of the Mueller report and the administration's refusal to comply with congressional subpoenas for documents and testimony, which Democrats have labored to highlight in a series of hearings and additional investigations.

\"I think there are legitimate reasons to favor impeachment, but I think we need to hear from the man that wrote the report,\" Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., said on Wednesday.

A former high school history teacher, Clyburn suggested the House might not have to impeach as a result of Democrats' investigative work, pointing to the high-profile witnesses whose testimony eventually forced President Richard Nixon to resign during Watergate.

\"It was John Dean’s testimony, Alexander Butterfield’s testimony,\" he said. \"We never got to the point of impeaching Nixon, we didn’t need to because we did good investigative work.\"

Green said postponing consideration of impeachment until after Mueller's testimony would be \"justice delayed.\"

\"I will do this even if I am the only person who is involved in the process,\" he said. \"There are some times on some issues where it's better to stand alone than not stand at all.\"

ABC News' Katherine Faulders and Ben Gittleson from the White House contributed to this report.

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