Changing the impeachment trial's rules would have required a two-thirds margin, or 67 votes.
Clinton made the announcement Thursday, barely two hours after the Senate ceremonially opened his impeachment trial.
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Instead, if the Republicans choose to extend the impeachment trial, they may remove some of themselves from office.
Before the impeachment trial comes to a close, bitter questions must be resolved.
Fowler insists the Republican Congress is not spending all of its energies on the president's impeachment trial in the Senate.
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In the Philippines, the messy impeachment trial of the president (see article) has driven the peso to record lows.
This novel has Scipio dictating his memoirs as he awaits the verdict of his impeachment trial, where a guilty verdict will mean death.
Andrew Johnson, who ascended to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, was tried and acquitted in the last presidential impeachment trial 131 years ago.
The two main political parties, Colorado and Liberal, had put aside their differences and voted in favour of the motion to begin the impeachment trial.
Adding to the confusion was the fact that the Philippines has never before conducted an impeachment trial, so there is a distinctly ad hoc approach to procedure.
Durbin said he thought the best way forward would be to suspend the process of seating Burris until the impeachment trial of Blagojevich concludes in the Illinois Senate.
In this regard, an impeachment trial is unlike any other.
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They did not suggest that Senators park their common sense and their stewardship for the security of our country at the Senate door as they entered into an impeachment trial.
Richard Lugar (R-Indiana): Mr. Chief Justice, for the first time in 120 years, and only for the second time in U.S. history, the Senate is about to conclude a Presidential impeachment trial.
White House officials are hoping that the Senate will avoid a full-scale impeachment trial and they insist the president will go far in working out a censure deal to ensure that happens.
That prompted Torricelli to warn that if Republican senators approve the House managers' witnesses but reject those called by the White House, the impeachment trial would descend into a morass of partisanship.
Bakaly was charged with contempt for denying under oath that he was a source for a New York Times article which ran on Jan. 31, 1999, in the midst of Clinton's impeachment trial.
As his impeachment trial began in the state Senate on January 26th, Mr Blagojevich appealed to talk-show hosts, describing his innocence and jogging habits, and boasting that he had considered appointing Oprah Winfrey to the Senate seat.
McCollum -- one of the House impeachment managers who prosecuted the Senate trial of President Bill Clinton -- is giving up his central Florida congressional seat, which he has held for nearly 20 years, to run for Senate.
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Critics of the independent counsel accused him of improperly injecting himself into the impeachment process and trying to sway the trial's outcome.
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.
Early in the trial, 44 Democrats voted to dismiss the impeachment proceedings outright.
Some of the testimonies at trial was found to be tainted, but Congress never reexamined the impeachment.
So members of the committee, before you stop listening to each other, consider that a House vote for impeachment, as Majority Leader Trent Lott said last week, requires the Senate to begin a trial, Unlike your proceedings, all senators would be involved to have to hear the real testimony of all the real witnesses, not a summary from a prosecutor.
During the impeachment of Joseph Estrada, Mrs Arroyo's predecessor, his allies succeeded in suppressing critical evidence, causing the trial to collapse in rancour.
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