Roland Gutierrez: “Let me be clear. No one is condoning the President's behavior, and if we had the chance, we would vote to condemn it. To…”

“Let me be clear. No one is condoning the President's behavior, and if we had the chance, we would vote to condemn it. To take poetic license from Mark Anthony's words from Julius Caesar, I do not come here to praise Bill Clinton, but I do not intend to see him buried either, buried under an avalanche of innuendo and salacious scandal. Nor do I wish to see this Congress play the role of Brutus, reaching across the centuries to stab in the back the founders of our democracy who entrusted us with their legacy. No one is attempting to defend the President. We are trying to defend a historical precedent. The voters spoke and they said they were sick of this partisan political process, sick of this extraordinarily expensive exhaustive examination of an extramarital affair. History tells us what to do. Vote against impeachment of the President of the United States.”