Henry Hyde

I ask all of you to consider that because today it is the impartiality of partisanship and we should be really considering the evidence.

I believe to be the law applicable to an impeachment proceeding under the U.

I believe the President should be held accountable for his actions, I believe censure is the appropriate response.

I believe the American people have made the distinction between the President's personal wrongdoing and his conduct in discharging the duties of his office.

I urge my colleagues to vote no, stop this hatchet job on the presidency, stop this hypocrisy, stop this hatred and vote no on all four counts.

I asked him to prepare a schedule projecting how the proceedings in the Senate might unfold.

I believe that there is sufficient evidence to approve these articles of impeachment and to send this process to the next step.

I believe very credibly, to the grand jury, she said, It wasn't as if the President called me and said, you know, Monica, you are on the witness list, this is going to be really hard for us.

I ask my friends to put aside the partisanship, the legalisms and, yes, the late hypocrisy.

I think the facts are overwhelming that he gave false, misleading and perjurious testimony to the Congress as part of our inquiry.

I believe this President violated the laws and the beliefs he swore to uphold.

I believe the President's actions were reprehensible and worthy of condemnation, but the clearest, most appropriate way to send a message about this President's behavior is censure.

Clair, the President's attorney, stated in closing summation that a President cannot be impeached by piling inference upon inference

I believe that it is painfully obvious that not only do these actions not help the President fulfill his duty and faithfully execute his office, but they directly lead to a failure to uphold this solemn oath and a direct betrayal of the…

I believe these articles will stand the test of time, they will stand a factual scrutiny that has to be done, and the only way to avoid impeachment is to leave your common sense at the door, defy the way the world works and ignore the…

I believe we have an overwhelming constitutional duty to vote to proceed with an inquiry.

Today we will vote on an historic resolution to begin an inquiry into whether the President has committed impeachable offenses

I believe they do, and the Constitution directs Congress to make that determination.

I believe a majority of this body, I know a majority of the American public, the right to vote on censure as an alternative to impeachment.

I believe, to a sober judgment that while perjury may be impeachable, the perjury in this case (if it occurred) does not warrant impeachment.

I think that most Americans, including many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle agree that the President did in fact lie under oath and commit perjury.

I believe the division we are experiencing is a true reflection of the differences in Republican and Democratic approaches to the Federal Government.

I believe the division between Members supporting impeachment and those supporting censure is about much more than partisan politics.

I believe they have strayed far from the mandates of the United States Constitution, the supreme law of the land.

I urge my colleagues to reject each of the four articles of impeachment.