The articles of impeachment had already emerged from the House Judiciary Committee prior to the election.
We should not dignify these articles of impeachment by sending them to the full House.
Or Henry Hyde, the silver-haired chairman of the House committee where articles of impeachment originate.
Politically, the contrast to today's hyper-partisanship was most obvious when a House committee voted on articles of impeachment.
Under the Constitution, the House of Representatives has the sole power to make accusations known as articles of impeachment.
If one or more articles of impeachment are approved, another debate on the floor of the House will ensue.
And then it came in the form of four draft articles of impeachment.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
The House, by a simple majority vote, must approve the articles of impeachment and convey them to the Senate.
It is a burden the House Managers have not met, and I will, therefore, vote against the articles of impeachment.
The House took that prosecutor's record and his testimony and made them the basis of articles of impeachment presented to us.
Then the committee members will consider up to five possible articles of impeachment, alleging perjury, obstruction of justice and witness-tampering, and abuse of power.
The committee's four proposed articles of impeachment, unveiled by Judiciary Committee Republicans Wednesday, focus on Clinton's testimony in the Jones case and before the Starr grand jury.
The last President to do so was President Nixon, and he had sufficient reverence for the office to resign before the House even voted articles of impeachment.
In the past, when the House has returned articles of impeachment alleging perjury with respect to federal judge, you will see that the House has followed this practice.
House Judiciary Committee develops "articles of impeachment", or charges.
Republicans have a 21-16 majority on the Judiciary Committee, and the betting is that they will approve at least one count of perjury, though the fate of other articles of impeachment seems less certain.
To drive home this claim, the Democrats wheeled out three members of the House committee that drew up articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon, and these witnesses maintained that the Watergate proceedings established guidelines that ought to save Mr Clinton now.
And according to my examination, which may be flawed, but my thinking is that it made its first appearance in this matter only after the House of Representatives had voted on the articles of impeachment, when the managers filed their trial brief.
Although many lawmakers have been quoted as saying they believe a motion of censure rather than articles of impeachment would gain more votes in the House, the Republicans said the committee majority is following its own course and that there has been little if any coordination with the party leadership.
CNN: House panel reportedly draws up Clinton impeachment charges
Indeed, if you want some evidence of how others have perceived this issue, look to the Hastings and Nixon cases, in both of which the articles charging impeachment specifically stated a false statement that they were accused of having made.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
From the Alcee Hastings articles of impeach -- impeachment: the false statement was in substance that Judge Hastings and William Borders (ph) never made any agreement to solicit a bridge from defendants in United States vs.
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