On the recordDecember 19, 1998
it is very simple. Accountability comes not from opinions; really in a way it does not even come from votes. It comes from those three great pillars of our society that are the basis for the rule of law. It is our laws, the Criminal Code of the United States of America, which based on exhaustive evidence this President has violated pursuant to a pattern of activity. It is based on the evidence, the evidence accumulated, considered at great length and voted on, and available to every Member of the House by the Independent Counsel, and as summarized in the report of our very able staff on the Committee on the Judiciary; and finally, the smallest yet most profound document that we have before us in all of our deliberations, the Constitution of the United States. Today our votes and our consciences must be based on these three great pillars of the rule of law: the law itself, the evidence and the Constitution. God bless the United States of America.
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