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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Starr a run for his money. Despite being touted as a lifelong Democrat and the ultimate bipartisan choice, Schippers arbitrarily dropped, subdivided and renamed Starr's impeachment charges, accused the President of "conspiracy" and made comments so skewed they were struck from the record. If there is a Peter Rodino-style poster boy for bipartisanship, he hasn't shown his face around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Probe: The Next Test | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

...piles of evidence Ken Starr didn't send to Congress -- even though the Dems lost a vital vote on this issue Friday. What's more, Hyde wants ranking Democrat John Conyers to have equal say in calling witnesses to an impeachment inquiry. The criticism that he was no Peter Rodino seems to have struck the silver-haired chairman Hyde harder than we knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Tries a Little Tenderness | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

What is the alternative? Congress watchers hark back to a gentler age, when New Jersey Democrat Peter Rodino presided over the Watergate-era House Judiciary Committee and its soberly bipartisan center. Several of that committee's key votes were unanimous, and that was deliberate. There was enough goodwill among members to keep secret the special prosecutor's detailed "road map" to the evidence rather than turn it into political fuel by putting it on the airwaves. In the impeachment debate that followed, a group of moderate Southern Democrats and liberal Republicans--including the future Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Fight Like Cats & Dogs | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

Today's Judiciary Committee can't even agree on the chairman's political comportment. Hyde's admirers expect him to follow in the Rodino tradition. He has great personal integrity, they say, and is respected by members of both parties for staying above the political fray. Not even the dustup over his decades-old affair--and Republican suspicions that the White House was involved in dredging it up--should affect his fairness and intellectual honesty, say his supporters. But Democrats grumble that the past few weeks have finally exposed Hyde's partisan instincts. They claim that he has a radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Fight Like Cats & Dogs | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

During all this, the House Judiciary Committee, headed by New Jersey's Democratic Congressman Peter Rodino, had been conducting hearings on impeachment. It soon decided to impeach Nixon on three counts: obstruction of justice, abuse of presidential powers and defiance of the committee's subpoenas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Nixon: I Have Never Been a Quitter | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

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