Kay Bailey Hutchison: “If a university president, a minister or priest, general or admiral, or a corporate chief executive had engaged in a…”

“If a university president, a minister or priest, general or admiral, or a corporate chief executive had engaged in a sexual relationship with an intern under his charge, he would lose his position, with scant attention paid to whether or not such a relationship were "consensual." We place in certain individuals so great a measure of trust that they are seen as acting essentially in loco parentis. The question before us today is: Should the President of the United States be held to a lower standard? The answer is: No. To the contrary; we can bestow no higher honor than to select one individual to represent us all as President. In one person we endow the character of our nation, as the head of state and the head of government. It's with great disappointment, but firm resolve, that I have concluded the President has not lived up to this high standard and that he should be removed from office. The House managers have demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that, in addition to indefensible behavior with an intern, which was not illegal, the President engaged in the obstruction of justice and, as an element of that obstruction, committed perjury before a federal grand jury, which is.”