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Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, was impeached by the United States House of Representatives of the 105th United States Congress on December 19, 1998. The House adopted two articles of impeachment against Clinton, with the specific charges against Clinton being lying under oath and obstruction of justice. Two other ...
During his presidency, Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, saw multiple efforts to impeach him. An early effort in congress saw Republican congressman Bob Barr write a resolution, co-signed by eighteen fellow House Republicans, which sought to launch an impeachment inquiry in 1997.
[17] [18] [19] The resolution authorize the House Committee on the Judiciary to investigate whether grounds existed for an impeachment of Clinton. [20] Before the vote on the bill authorizing the inquiry, a vote was held on a motion that would send the bill back to the House Committee on the Judiciary with recommended revisions. This motion was ...
In Bill Clinton's prime-time speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1988, the young governor of Arkansas bored delegates so thoroughly that they cheered when he said, “in closing ...
Bill Clinton has given dozens of paid speeches each year since leaving office in 2001, mostly to corporations and philanthropic groups in North America and Europe; he often earned $100,000 to $300,000 per speech. [390] [398] [399] [400] Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin paid Clinton $500,000 for a speech in Moscow.
He led the effort to impeach Bill Clinton. Years later, he sought Clinton out to apologize. Republican who 'wanted to destroy' Bill Clinton during 1998 impeachment has regrets
Hyde at a hearing on special counsel Ken Starr's investigation of President Bill Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky, November 1998. Hyde reads the articles of impeachment to the Senate on January 7, 1999. Hyde argued that the House had a constitutional and civic duty to impeach Bill Clinton for perjury.
This speech occurred shortly after the federal government shutdown of 1995 and 1996 which had resulted from disagreements on the 1996 United States federal budget. President Clinton discussed the economy and declared that "the era of big government is over," and continued, "but we cannot go back to the time when our citizens were left to fend ...