Honorable Rick Boucher
United States Representative, Virginia, Democrat
Representative Boucher, of the Ninth District of Virginia,was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982.He served in the Virginia Senate from 1975 to 1983. He is a memberof the Commerce Committee and the Judiciary Committee. The followingstatement is from the House floor debate of December 18, 1998,on H.Res. 611, impeaching William Jefferson Clinton, Presidentof the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.In its 1974 Watergate inquiry, the House Committee on the Judiciaryconducted an exhaustive examination of the constitutional historyof the impeachment power. Then on a broad bipartisan basis, thecommittee adopted a report which eloquently states the constitutionalstandard…
