Results for Impeachment

House Judiciary Committee members voted to pass the fourth article of impeachment against President Clinton charging him with abuse of power.

Members debated the fourth article of impeachment against President Clinton charging him with abuse of power for offering "perjurious, false and misleading" answers to 81 questions posed by the committee.

House Judiciary Committee Members debated and voted on three articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, two for perjury and one for obstruction of justice. ... Republicans argued that his actions were illegal and displayed a pattern of deception which warranted impeachment.

House Judiciary Committee members made their opening statements about the impeachment inquiry of President Bill Clinton.

House Judiciary Committee members presented opening statements about four articles of impeachment they considered in the hearing. The Republican majority argued that President Bill Clinton should suffer impeachment because he had, in their eyes, lied under oath. The Democratic minority argued that even if true the charges did not warrant an impeachment a they did not reach the standard of "high crimes and misdemeanors" as stated in the U.S.

David Schippers, Chief Republican Investigative Counsel, presented the majority opinion by recounting the…

Abbe Lowell presented the minority opinion saying that the alleged lies by President Clinton did not rise…

House Judiciary Committee members met briefly to vote on whether or not to proceed to an executive sessio…

He contended that impeachment was unjustified because a reasonable prosecutor would not bring criminal charges for the president's actions.

Day two of the impeachment hearings of President Bill Clinton, witnesses testified on behalf of President Clinton and argued that the allegations of perjury were so weak that they would not stand a chance of being heard in a criminal court setting. They further argued for a censure motion rather than articles of impeachment.

Two veteran Washington lawyers testified on behalf of President Bill Clinton, and argued that the allegat…

Constitutional scholars testified on behalf of President Clinton arguing that the allegations of perjury …

Members of the Watergate Judiciary Committee testified on behalf of President Clinton saying that the all…

Witnesses spoke about whether President Bill Clinton's attempt to conceal his sexual misconduct would meet the Constitutional requirement for impeachment.

Democrats said the testimony was irrelevant to the impeachment inquiry.

The committee met to determine whether it would forward articles of impeachment to the full House.

Members of the House Judiciary Committee questioned Independent Counsel Ken Starr about his decision to r…

The House Judiciary Committee met to determine whether it would forward articles of impeachment to the full House.

Subcommittee members heard testimony from a second panel of legal experts on the history and interpretation of impeachment.

The House Judiciary Subcommittee members questioned legal experts and historians about the history and interpretation of impeachment.