[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 139 (Wednesday, October 7, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H9729]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           TO SAVE THE PARTY, DEMOCRATS MUST VOTE TO IMPEACH

  (Mr. BARR of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BARR of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, on the issue of impeachment, I 
submit to the House an article submitted to the Wall Street Journal by 
Jerome M. Zeifman, who is a lifelong Democrat and was chief counsel to 
the House Committee on the Judiciary at the time of the Nixon inquiry.
  He writes, ``As a lifelong Democrat and chief counsel of the House 
Judiciary Committee at the time of the Nixon impeachment inquiry, I 
believe I have a personal responsibility to speak out about the current 
impeachment crisis. And I believe my fellow Democrats on today's 
Judiciary Committee have a moral, ethical and constitutional 
responsibility to vote to impeach President Clinton. The positions 
taken by the President and his die-hard Democratic defenders in 
Congress and the media are indefensible.
  ``We are living in dangerous times. I believe the President has 
personally brought his office into scandal and disrepute.
  ``Having long championed traditional Democratic causes, I simply 
cannot accept Mr. Clinton's own shameless defense and his supporters' 
offensive attacks on Congress and its traditional rules. Like most 
traditional Democrats, like most Americans, I have grave reservations 
about Mr. Clinton's morality and ethics. In my view there is now more 
than substantial evidence to consider our President a felon who has 
committed impeachable offenses.''

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