Word: impeaches
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...high crime against the state. President Clinton ought to do the honorable thing and resign, but his recent public statement indicate his extreme unwilligness to so. It's time for the President finally to step up and take responsibility for his actions in the open forum that a Senate impeachment trial would provide. It seems likely that the House will vote to impeach on Thursday. The staff's protestations aside, it is the right thing to do. --Andrew S. Chang '99, Jenny E. Heller '01, Vasant M. Kamath '02, Richard S. Lee '01, Kevin E. Meyers '02, Noah D. Oppenheim...
...House of Representatives votes to impeach Bill Clinton in the next few weeks, the man responsible will be someone whose face most Americans won't recognize and whose name they may never have heard. It won't be Ken Starr, the independent counsel who brought the Monica Lewinsky affair to the House of Representatives. Or Henry Hyde, the silver-haired chairman of the House committee where articles of impeachment originate. Or even Bob Livingston, who will soon replace Newt Gingrich as Speaker. Instead the author of Bill Clinton's most historic defeat, if it happens, will be Tom DeLay...
...much of November, Republicans were looking everywhere for an impeachment escape hatch. The midterm elections had gone badly, and everyone blamed it on the party's obsession with ousting the President. Shut it down, said party elders; take Henry Hyde's gavel away and move on. In the House, G.O.P. members began discussing milder presidential punishments as if they were debating different models of a new car. Formulations like "censure," "censure plus," and "censure with teeth" came in and out of fashion. With Gingrich out, Hyde's committee in obvious disarray and Livingston showing no stomach for dealing with...
...year House veteran sampled opinion and, not so subtly, made his case. "What am I supposed to do, crawl into a hole and not do my job?" he asked TIME. To those worried that the party would be flouting the will of the public by voting to impeach, DeLay gave assurances. The G.O.P. has paid its price at the ballot box, he said, and lost in part because disaffected conservative voters stayed home. Those same voters would interpret backing down from impeachment now as the ultimate capitulation. "The 35% that is our hard-core base wants the process...
Besides, the DeLay camp says, a vote to impeach the President is the perfect inoculation for moderate Republicans under assault from conservatives in their districts. Assuming, as almost everyone in Washington does, that Clinton would survive a Senate trial, moderates who voted to impeach wouldn't have to worry about a backlash. "What DeLay's been saying is, 'This vote isn't going to hurt you; it will mean conservatives won't bother you anymore,'" says a source close to the Texan. For some moderates, that could be an important consideration. Marge Roukema, a New Jersey Republican known...