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
We're meeting with each other, trying to coordinate the managers, we have several as you know, and each has an assigned task, and we're busily preparing our remarks and trying to time them and make sure they are coherent and comprehensive, ... So, just the usual preparation for a trial.
We respect and appreciate the bipartisan agreement established by this Senate, ... We intend to use the time we have been provided to present a compelling case on the serious charges pending against the President.
without cooperation from the White House and committee Democrats, who have consistently advocated strict time limits.
That is a spin from out of nowhere, ... All I know is every time I give advice to Newt, he nods his head affirmatively.
This is not the time to get angry at the Senate. At the same time, this is a strange process, one that we're not familiar with. In terms of making a case, the question of the production of witnesses, it has been rendered difficult.
The time has come for the American people, for the members of Congress to get this report,
The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions. Suffice it to say, Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr. Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.
The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions, ... Suffice it to say, Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr. Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.
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.
What about the unborn? ... What about those who can't run away, who depend on our sense of humanity?
We have no precedent to follow on the involvement of the independent counsel in our proceedings. However, it seems both useful and instructive that we should hear from him since he is the person most familiar with the complicated matters the House has directed us to review.
would be to look the other way instead of confronting our collective responsibility under the Constitution.
would be kind of stupid to try and intimidate her.
There is a Second Amendment, there is a fundamental right that we're dealing with and therefore we should move expeditiously but not in a stampede. We're going to do this and we're going to do it right.