Congressional Digest

Congressional Digest February 1999 No. 2 Vol. 78
Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Impeachment of the President

Interpreting "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"

Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

United States Representative, Florida, Republican

Representative Ros-Lehtinen, of the Eighteenth Districtof Florida, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representativesin a special election held in August 1989. She served in the FloridaHouse of Representatives from 1982 to 1986, and in the FloridaSenate from 1986 to 1989. She is a member of the Government Reformand Oversight Committee and the International Relations Committee.The following statement is from the House floor debate of December18, 1998, on H.Res. 611, impeaching William Jefferson Clinton,President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.With a commitment to the principles of the rule of law whichmakes this country the beacon of…

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