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Ray LaHood
@raylahood· Republican · IL· Dec 1, 1997

I believe what President Clinton did was indefensible and immoral, but I do not think his actions, however, wrong, reached the high constitutional threshold for impeachment and the overturning of the only national election in our democracy.

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Ray LaHood
@raylahood· Republican · IL· Dec 1, 1997

I believe what President Clinton did was indefensible and immoral, but I do not think his actions, however, wrong, reached the high constitutional threshold for impeachment and the overturning of the only national election in our democracy.

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Ray LaHood
@raylahood· Republican · IL· Dec 1, 1997

I believe that a President who lies under oath in a judicial proceeding is subject to impeachment because such conduct undermines our legal system, violates the President's oath and his constitutional responsibilities, and seriously…

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Ray LaHood
@raylahood· Republican · IL· Dec 1, 1997

I think it is important Page H11914 to note in terms of the constitutionality of censure that no less a figure in our history than Abraham Lincoln, the father of the Republican Party, supported a House resolution condemning President Polk…

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Ray LaHood
@raylahood· Republican · IL· Dec 1, 1997

I ask each Member of this House of Representatives to put partisanship aside, to look at the law, to look at the evidence, and to vote in the way our Foundering Fathers intended when they crafted our Constitution.

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Ray LaHood
@raylahood· Republican · IL· Dec 1, 1997

the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming. The statement was not necessary, because they concocted the cover story and they both understood the willful intent to conceal their relationship in order to impede justice in the Jones versus…

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Ray LaHood
@raylahood· Republican · IL· Dec 1, 1997

s testimony before the grand jury in this regard, the legal question, as aside from the moral question, becomes, Did President Clinton lie, or did he simply exercise his rights under the law not to volunteer more details? Just because he…

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Ray LaHood
@raylahood· Republican · IL· Dec 1, 1997

I believe that short-term inconvenience of the Senate trial is insignificant compared with the long-term damages to the rule of law and the constitution that not voting for impeachment would cause.

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