Angie Craig: “I promised to share with the people of Idaho and the nation what comments I made in the closed session of the Senate…”

“I promised to share with the people of Idaho and the nation what comments I made in the closed session of the Senate deliberating on the impeachment of President Clinton. What I told my colleagues as we deliberated was this: If we were in a church, the minister would admonish us from the pulpit to hate the sin and forgive the sinner. But we're not in a church. If we were in a court of law, the judge would tell us to hate the crime, and punish the criminal. But we're not in a court of law. We're part of a constitutionally-directed impeachment tribunal, and our job is to love the Constitution and protect the office of the president. Our decision should not be about saving or rejecting William Jefferson Clinton, but about protecting the office of the president and keeping our Constitution strong. I believe he committed the crimes and acts charged in the articles of impeachment, and I will vote to convict and remove him from office. That was my statement to the Senators in closed deliberations, and I stand by it today.”