Congressional Digest

Congressional Digest February 1999 No. 2 Vol. 78
Honorable Charles T. Canady

Impeachment of the President

Interpreting "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"

Honorable Charles T. Canady

United States Representative, Florida, Republican

Representative Canady, of the Twelfth District of Florida,was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992.He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1984 to1990. He is a member of the Agriculture Committee and the JudiciaryCommittee. The following statement is from the House floor debateof December 18, 1998, on H.Res. 611, impeaching William JeffersonClinton, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.In today’s debate we have heard a convincing case made thatthe President engaged in a calculated and sustained pattern ofperjury and obstruction of justice. The furious efforts of thePresident’s defenders cannot alter the stubborn…

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