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

To: PAT JENNING who wrote (14014)	11/9/1998 11:41:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Candidate for Speaker Takes Cautious Impeachment Stance nytimes.com On that topic, sort of . . . The front-runner to be the next speaker of the House said on Sunday that lawmakers should consider public sentiment that President Clinton has not committed impeachable offenses, even as a House panel prepared to begin impeachment hearings on Monday. Rep. Robert Livingston of Louisiana, the leading candidate to replace Speaker Newt Gingrich, said he would wait for the recommendations of the House Judiciary Committee and its chairman, Henry Hyde of Illinois, before passing judgment. But Livingston also said public opinion needs to be factored into the final decision. "The American people have certainly indicated in the polls that they don't see it as an impeachable or dismissible offense, and that would have to be considered in the political arena," Livingston said on the NBC News program "Meet the Press." "But still in all, we cannot simply disregard the fact that there are other people in our society, in the military and in various other walks of life, as CEO's or principals of schools, who have been likewise charged and have lost their jobs," Livingston said. On that last, of course, there's also been plenty that haven't. We don't have a parliamentary system, though personally I think that might be a good idea. Cheers, Dan.