Word: rodino
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...impeachment proceedings are being conducted by the Judiciary Committee, headed by New Jersey's Peter Rodino Jr. Already he has started canvassing law-school deans for recommendations on the most able and nonpartisan lawyer available to head the investigating staff and conduct impeachment hearings. Rodino has been...
...possibility of impeachment loomed more seriously, the fate of Ford's nomination as Vice President became more urgent. Rodino said that the Democratic majority on the House Judiciary Committee had decided to proceed with hearings on Ford simultaneously with its impeachment inquiry. While no timetable was set, the Democratic majority wants to cushion the impact of possible impeachment by keeping the White House in Republican hands and assuring the continuation of Nixon's general foreign and domestic policies. Ford's elevation also would avert a bitter partisan fight over succession; Speaker Albert has no longing for the presidency. The Senate...
...Rodino, the man on whom both the Ford and impeachment hearings most directly fall, is 64, a silver-haired liberal Democrat and 25-year House veteran who represents a Newark-area district with a majority of black voters. A lawyer who writes poetry and loves opera, he nevertheless is popular in a tough-talking city where politics is rough. He voted against such technological projects as the ABM and the SST. He succeeded New York's Emanuel Cellar as judiciary chairman last January after Celler was defeated for reelection...
...last spring when Congressman Peter Rodino Jr. sensed initial stirrings of interest among House colleagues in impeachment. As chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, he set some of his staff to work on the subject. Slowly they gathered a stack of relevant materials that has become a 718-page volume, Impeachment-Selected Materials. The book has just been put on sale by the Government Printing Office ($4.40 a copy). Demand for the first press run of 3,430 copies was so heavy that a second printing will start this week...
...next morning Rodino met with Speaker Albert at 9 o'clock and went over the reasons why he felt the House should reject Agnew's plea. Albert agreed, and promptly announced that the House was turning Agnew down, at least for the time being, since his case related to "matters before the courts...