Congressional Digest

Congressional Digest February 1999 No. 2 Vol. 78
Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee

Impeachment of the President

Interpreting "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"

Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee

United States Representative, Texas, Democrat

Representative Jackson Lee, of the Eighteenth District ofTexas, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representativesin 1994. She was Staff Counsel for the U.S. House Select Committeeon Assassinations from 1977 to 1978, a Houston Associate MunicipalJudge from 1987 to 1990, and a member of the Houston City Councilfrom 1990 to 1994. She serves on the Judiciary Committee and theScience Committee. The following statement is from the House floordebate of December 19, 1998, on H.Res. 611, impeaching WilliamJefferson Clinton, President of the United States, for high crimesand misdemeanors.Today, with great humility and somberness, I rise on the floorof this House…

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