Henry Hyde
Henry Hyde
Henry John Hyde, an American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, representing the 6th District of Illinois, an area of Chicago's northwestern suburbs which included O'Hare International Airport. He chaired the Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2001, and the House International Relations Committee from 2001 to 2007. He gained national attention for his leadership role in managing the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 April 1924
CountryUnited States of America
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Because the president is the only individual with knowledge of almost every material fact relevant to the trial, his testimony could greatly help to expeditiously and fairly bring this matter to a close,
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If you agree that perjury and obstruction of justice have been committed and yet you vote down the conviction ... you raise the most serious questions of whether the president is, in fact, subject to the law or whether we are beginning a restoration of the divine right of kings,
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I don't think indicting and criminally trying him after what we have all been through is going to be helpful to the country,
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We will hear from other witnesses in live hearings and in depositions as we move towards a final resolution. In addition, we have yet to hear from the president. And I can assure my colleagues, if and when the president would want to testify, he may have unlimited time to do so.
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The President's grand jury testimony and televised address have raised renewed speculation about future actions of the Congress and the House Judiciary Committee in particular. If the Independent Counsel has any substantial and credible information that may constitute grounds for impeachment, he has an explicit statutory duty to send a report to the House. If and when the Independent Counsel sends such a report, it is reasonable to expect answers to many as yet unanswered questions. It is our Constitutional duty to provide a fair, full and independent review of these facts in their proper context. Until then, we simply should not speculate about how the House would proceed.
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We don't want to be accused of politicizing this ... but we will be doing a lot of planning and interviewing and whatever's necessary to have hearings after the election,
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We will focus both on the scandal and on the ability of the U.N. to investigate itself,
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There are many voices telling us to halt this debate, that the people are weary of it all, ... There are other voices suggesting we have a duty to debate the many questions raised by the circumstances in which we find ourselves, questions of high consequence for constitutional government.... What is the significance of a false statement under oath? Is it essentially different from a garden variety lie? A mental reservation? A fib? An evasion? A little white lie? Hyperbole?
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We're at the stage in the impeachment trial in the Senate where we're going to be required to produce a list of witnesses that we want, ... Monica Lewinsky is, of course, the most important witness in this whole drama.
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There is information that should be released. We can redact transcripts of the taped material and release those. That, so far, seems to be the best way, ... But there is an awful lot there that shouldn't go out.
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America is hungry for people who believe in something.
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The president will get copy number three. He will get it as soon as we get it and as soon as the American people get it. He's not caught by surprise. He's the party of the first part, he knows what's in the report better than anybody on the planet, but to give the spin machine an opportunity to be the first impact on the American people before we the members have seen this report -- it's not bipartisanship, it's foolishness.
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We are not delegates who are sent here to weigh our mail every day and then to vote accordingly. There are issue of transcendent importance that you have to be willing to lose your office over ... I'm willing to lose my seat any day in the week rather than sell out.
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We are not confined to the Starr referral, ... That was the debate we had on the floor with the resolution that empowered us to review the material from the independent counsel. Mr. (Rick) Boucher (D-Virginia) and the Democrats wanted a very narrow scope. And we wanted a wider scope. And we prevailed. And so we are not bound by the parameters of the Starr referral.