Henry Waxman: “Let me suggest that if the President has committed a crime, let him be tried in a court of law. There even he will have…”

“Let me suggest that if the President has committed a crime, let him be tried in a court of law. There even he will have the protections of the law. Here in this House he is not getting the rule of law but the rule of politics. This President has been subjected to an unprecedented and deliberate strategy to use taxpayers' funded money to investigate him in order to get him impeached. Millions of dollars have been spent, many reckless charges were investigated, investigated to death, and they were found to have no basis in fact. As a matter of fact, a resolution of impeachment was introduced before anybody had ever heard of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. There has been an impeachment in search of an impeachable offense. What has been presented to us today do not amount to impeachable offenses. I call for the rule of law and the supremacy of the Constitution.”