That was made possible when Republicans grossly overplayed the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
The contrast to the Watergate investigation and the impeachment of President Nixon is stark.
Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, I am opposed to the impeachment of President Clinton.
The tapes were the main evidence used in the Starr report to Congress that led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
The issue of that autumn was the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
He almost came to blows with Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) while the House was debating the impeachment of President Clinton in December 1998.
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But even some of the party leaders in Washington trying to craft a new agenda recognize that any changes may be overshadowed by the hearings on possible impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
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In another echo of past political battles, one of those who argued in favor of Proposition 8 was Kenneth Starr -- the special prosecutor who led the Whitewater investigation that led to the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
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The midterms will provide some sense of whether those stories have legs, either detrimentally for Democrats as Republicans suffered in 1974 after Watergate or whether a backlash sets in against the GOP, as New Gingrich and his allies suffered in 1998 amid the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
The consequences of the impeachment of the president of the United States are far-reaching.
And we will be referring to parts of that presentation in order to demonstrate that this committee does not have constitutional grounds to put forward the impeachment of the president of the United States.
But it's interesting, Ken Rudin, it was, I think just the other day, one of several towns in the state of Vermont passed a resolution for impeachment of the President of the United States, partly, I think, on this exact wiretapping question.
Today, following the Ethics in Government Act as required by the Ethics in Government Act, and with the authorization of the court supervising independent counsels, the Office of Independent Counsel submitted a referral to the House of Representatives containing substantial and credible information that may constitute grounds for impeachment of the president of the United States.
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Obviously, you can have the counties in Vermont calling for impeachment, you could have San Francisco, the San Francisco city council voted for impeachment, but until the Democrats control either the House or the Senate, no legislation, no possibility of impeachment of the president will happen in the last two years of the Bush presidency.
Putting aside whether this is the type of difference of testimony which should justify an impeachment of a president, I do not believe that a case involving this kind of conflict between two witnesses would be brought by a prosecutor, since it would not be won at trial.
He also worked with Jennings throughout the impeachment hearings of President Clinton.
We are talking about the impeachment of the president of the United States -- a gave constitutional moment in our national history.
But as of today, Mr. Starr is the only witness that we're aware of before the committee considering the impeachment of the president.
And as Judge Higginbotham said, it has been too willing to liken impeachment of a president to the perjury conviction by a basketball coach.
Asuncion, Paraguay (CNN) -- A delegation from the European Parliament began a mission in Paraguay Monday to investigate the impeachment of former President Fernando Lugo.
But the impeachment trial of President Clinton is not about adultery.
Mr. Chairman, today for only the third time in our nation's history, this committee meets to consider articles of impeachment against the President of the United States.
Because impeachment of a President is a grave step for the nation, it is to be predicated only upon conduct seriously incompatible with either the constitutional form and principles of our government or the proper performance of constitutional duties of the presidential office.
It is therefore not surprising that whether to make provision for impeachment of the president became the focus of contention, especially in the context of concern whether, in our new republican form of government, the legislator ought to be entrusted with such a power.
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In the Philippines, the messy impeachment trial of the president (see article) has driven the peso to record lows.
The American people would not have accepted a vote that would have been purely a partisan vote voting to impeachment the president of the United States clearly on partisan grounds.
The Democrats' surprisingly strong showing lightened the threat of impeachment hanging over the president, and so lessened the appeal of a Democratic candidate running from outside the White House.
In 1992 he published Grand Inquests, a 278-page history of the 19th century impeachment trials of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson.
In the end, wavering Republicans may be most swayed by the availability or otherwise of an alternative to impeachment: a way of censuring the president, while pulling back from the responsibility of removing him from office.
"We have a significant portion who are very much in favor of the impeachment process against President Clinton and another segment which has been strongly opposed, " said Chris Bertelli of the California Republican Party.
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