Congressional Digest

Congressional Digest February 1999 No. 2 Vol. 78
Honorable John Conyers, Jr.

Impeachment of the President

Interpreting "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"

Honorable John Conyers, Jr.

United States Representative, Michigan, Democrat

Representative Conyers, of the Fourteenth District of Michigan,was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1964.He was a Legislative Assistant to U.S. Representative John Dingellfrom 1958 to 1961, and a Referee for the Michigan Women’s CompensationDepartment from 1961 to 1963. He serves on the Judiciary Committee,where he is the Ranking Minority Member. The following statementis from the House floor debate of December 19, 1998, on H.Res.611, impeaching William Jefferson Clinton, President of the UnitedStates, for high crimes and misdemeanors.We are confronted with an overzealous and nonindependent counselreport combined with a totally politicized process in the Committeewith party line…

More on Impeachment of the President:

Back to top ↑
X
Username
Password

Email Address
Email Address Again
Forgot username/password?