I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman in Oregon (Ms.

I believe it is now clear that the President violated both his oath of office and the oath he took to tell the truth.

I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr.

I ask would you still be clamoring for censure, or would you be calling for resignation of impeachment?

I urge you to vote for impeachment because he lied.

I believe that we should strongly censure President Clinton for his reprehensible and immoral conduct.

I believe that President Clinton committed the crimes that he is charged with, and therefore violated his oath of office to faithfully execute the laws.

I urge you to reconsider your ill-advised actions and allow the House to have a fair vote that includes censure.

I believe it reaches constitutional proportions when the denial of civil rights is directed by the President of the United States.

I yield 15 seconds to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr.

I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New York (Mr.

I do not see how anyone, anyone, can deny the seriousness of these charges or the corrupting effect they have on the judicial system of this country if we allow them to go unaddressed

I ask myself, how did this body get to the point where the conscience of so many Members is so different from the conscience of the American people?

the gentleman from Wisconsin who totally misrepresented the President's grand jury testimony.

I urge you: do not cheapen the constitutional test for impeachment.

Both of them affirmatively led the committee to believe that the call was for the purpose of arranging for Ms

I believe that lying under oath in a judicial proceeding violates the President's oath to faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States.

I believe in order to have legitimate self-government that the process of making institution's decisions must be fair, and I am frustrated with a process that is not fair and that will not allow some of us to vote our conscience, a vote on…

I suggested censure might be a way to avoid reaching the point we have reached today, but whatever opportunity existed to redress this matter by alternative means was lost as a result of the President's own conduct.

I believe the Judiciary Committee's findings to be serious, particularly relating to the articles of alleged perjury and obstruction of justice.

Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist Papers that impeachable offenses are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some Page H11936 public trust

I believe the President should be held accountable for his reckless acts, however impeachment is not the appropriate punishment in this instance.

I think it would do permanent damage to our ideals of equal justice and constitutional government.

I believe there is ample evidence that felonious conduct--and perjury is a felony--falls well within the bounds of what our forefathers intended the phrase high crimes and misdemeanors'' to include.

I think will be, and hope will be, a bipartisan vote, as we make our public statement of rebuke.