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Senate halts impeachment trial to debate
attempts to dismiss Clinton’s charges
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate closed
its doors Monday to debate a Democratic at
tempt to dismiss all charges against President
Clinton and bring his im
peachment trial to an end.
House prosecutors
pressed their case for testi
mony by Monica Lewinsky
and a shortened list of addi
tional witnesses.
The senators deliberated
into the night in a rare secret
session as the White House,
confident of Clinton’s ability to
win eventual acquittal, announced it would ig
nore a written list of questions submitted by Ma
jority Leader Ttent Lott ar d other Republicans.
An attempt by two Democrats to open de
bate was rejected by a vote of 57-43 — it would
have needed a two-thirds majority to pass —
after last-minute legal arguments by the White
House and House prosecutors on the question
of dismissal.
Rep. Henry Hyde, the lead prosecutor, told
CLINTON
the Senate that dismissal would mean that
“charges of perjury, obstruction of justice are
summarily dismissed, disregarded, ignored,
brushed off, and these are charges that send or
dinary folk to jail every day of the week and
remove federal judges.”
There will be continuing contention about
Clinton’s case, he said, unless the articles of im
peachment themselves are brought to a vote.
“The case cannot be made. It is time to end
it,” countered Nicole Seligman, a private attor
ney who has long represented Clinton and is
part of his impeachment defense team.
No votes are expected before Thesday or pos
sibly Wednesday, but after more than two weeks,
the first presidential impeachment trial in 131
years was fast approaching a pivotal moment.
House Republicans are expected to produce
a formal proposal for witnesses on Thesday, to
be voted on after the Democratic attempt to dis
miss the charges.
A decision by the House prosecutors to win
now their witness list during the day marked
an attempt to hold the support of wavering Re
publican senators whose votes will be crucial
when the roll is called.
Lewinsky, remains at the top of the list.
House officials said, and there is continued in
terest in seeking testimony from Betty Currie,
the president’s secretary. Additional consider
ation is being given to adding presidential
friend Vernon Jordan to the list, or perhaps a
White House aide, either chief of staff John
Podesta or Sidney Blumenthal.
The officials, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, said the idea of trying to question
Kathleen Willey had been dropped, as had the
idea of summoning any of a handful of other,
less well-known women who have alleged that
Clinton made unwelcome sexual advances.
House prosecutors had long sought their testi
mony to see whether Clinton or associates tried
to intimidate them to change their stories.
“We've got to prioritize this and get down to
the bare minimum and not run the risk of getting
zero witnesses because we put on too many,”
said Rep. James Rogan, R-Calif., a member of the
House team prosecuting the president.
WHAT INSPIRED THE MOUNTAIN MEN?
George Washington:
“Whereas it is the duty of all nations
to acknowledge the providence of
almighty God, to obey His will, to be
grateful for His benefits, and humbly
to implore His protection and favor.”
Abraham Lincoln:
“Intelligence, Patriotism, Christianity,
and a firm reliance on Him who has
never yet forsaken this favored land
are still competent to adjust in the
best way all our present difficulty.
...As was said three thousand years
ago, so still it must be said, ‘the
judgments of the Lord are true and
righteous altogether’”
Thomas Jefferson:
“God who gave us life gave us liberty.
Can the liberties of a nation be secure
when we have removed a conviction
that these liberties are the gift of God?
Indeed I tremble for my country when I
reflect that God is just, that His justice
cannot sleep forever.”
Teddy Roosevelt:
“There are those who believe that a
new modernity demands a new
morality. What they fail to consider is
the harsh reality that there is no such
thing as a new morality. There is only
one morality. All else is immorality.
There is only true Christian ethics over
against which stands the whole of
paganism. If we are to fulfill our great
destiny as people, then we must return
to the old morality, the sole morality.”
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Supreme Court rules agains#
statistical sampling in 2000ce
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Supreme Court ruled Monday that the
2000 census cannot use statistical
sampling to enhance its accuracy, a
decision making it more likely millions
of people will be left out. The 5-4 Ril
ing requires the traditional nose count
to redraw congressional districts.
Left in doubt was whether the
sampling the Clinton administration
favors will be used to determine state-
by-state eligibility for S180 billion in
federal money each year of the com
ing decade — or for drawing election
districts at all levels of government.
That may depend on whether the
Republican-led Congress provides
enough financing for the Census Bu
reau.
The nation’s highest court ruled
that a 1976 federal census law “di
rectly prohibits the use of sampling
in the determination of population
for the purposes of apportionment.”
White House spokesman Joe
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