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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (6230)	9/29/1998 11:22:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Hyde Bows to Democrats on Inquiry Issues nytimes.com The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee acceded to an array of Democratic demands Monday, saying he wanted to eliminate contentious side issues and keep his committee focused on whether President Clinton should be impeached. Asserting "we are doing our level best to be credible," Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., said he would dispatch a bipartisan team of investigators to the office of Kenneth Starr to examine materials the Whitewater independent counsel has not sent to Congress. Democrats said last week that they wanted to see whether Starr had held back any exculpatory information about Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky. In another bow to the Democrats, Hyde said at a news conference that he has instructed Rep. Charles Canady, R-Fla., to convene a subcommittee hearing as soon as possible to examine precedents on what qualifies as an impeachable offense. And seeking to put several other issues to rest, he said the committee would meet in public session next Monday when it votes on whether to ask the House to let it open a full impeachment inquiry. Hyde said he would vote to open such a formal impeachment investigation. "I should think there is enough to warrant an inquiry," he said. He also said that he would support giving the senior Democrat on the committee, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the power to issue subpoenas on his own if the House authorizes an inquiry. Wow. These are concessions? What a fair, non-partisan proceeding Mr. Hyde must have had in mind before these concessions were forced on him. Cheers, Dan.