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
I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either.
We are going to follow wherever the facts lead us.
Yes, I think the president should step down,
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.
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.
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'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.
would be kind of stupid to try and intimidate her.
would be to look the other way instead of confronting our collective responsibility under the Constitution.
Today it's our responsibility and our constitutional duty to review those materials referred to us and recommend to the House of Representatives whether the matter merits a further inquiry.
What about the unborn? ... What about those who can't run away, who depend on our sense of humanity?
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.
The only purpose for this being dredged up now is an obvious attempt to intimidate me, and it won't work,
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.