Members of Congress divided on impeachment, censure
Censuring is discussed
as an alternative to
impeachment
By Jim Abrams
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Clinton must state clearly that he
lied in the Monica Lewinsky affair
before the House Judiciary Com
mittee can consider any alterna
tive to impeachment, Republican
members said Sunday. But other
lawmakers warned not to ignore
momentum for the lesser action of
censuring the president.
One Republican who has come
out against impeachment, Rep.
r
Peter King of New York, predict
ed that a vote to impeach would
fall short in the House and pursu
ing that course could perpetuate
the image that Republicans put
the scandal ahead of the nation’s
legislative needs.
“It’s going to make it harder to
get our agenda across. We have to
show that we can lead, that we can
bring an end to this,” he said on
NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
But the move to censure was
complicated last week by GOP dis
satisfaction with what they said
were Clinton’s evasive answers to
81 questions on the affair present
ed to him by Judiciary Committee
Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill.
“This censure idea without an
admission on the president’s part
is a political cop-out,” committee
member Rep. Lindsey Graham, R
S.C., told NBC. “I do not want to
have an unrepentant perjurer
leading the nation into the 21st
century.”
House Majority Whip Tom De
Lay, R-Texas, on CNN’s “Late Edi
tion,” said, “The Congress and the
House have no other option but to
vote impeachment or not.”
Clinton has a chance to directly
confront the committee on Dec. 8
when he or his representatives
have been invited to testify.
White House spokesman Jim
Kennedy said the White House is
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still evaluating how to respond to
the invitation. Already, he said,
“We’ve made a good faith effort to
respond to the questions despite
the fact that they were designed
more for a partisan purpose than a
constitutional one.”
One Senate Republican, Sen.
Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania,
said Clinton should personally ap
pear to defend himself. “I think he
ought to have to answer questions
and be subject to examination be
cause the answers that he gave
were evasive,” he said on “Fox
News Sunday.” “Let’s bring the
president in.”
After that, the committee
would decide whether to recom
mend articles of impeachment to
the full House, which could take
up the matter the following week.
If 218 House members vote to
impeach, action would move to
the Senate where a two-thirds ma
jority is needed to convict and re
move the president from office.
With opinions split down party
lines, there is little chance of that
happening.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Con
necticut, one of the first Democ
rats to openly condemn Clinton’s
behavior, wrote in the New York
Times Sunday that with impeach
ment unlikely, Congress must cen
sure the president.
Dual portraits emerge
of bus shooting suspect
By John M. Hubbell
The Associated Press
SEATTLE —The hunched-over
man at the bus stop made Chad
Reilly nervous. He ripped away
the paper bag that cradled his
liquor with a flourish, .looking
Reilly in the eye as he approached.
"He was talking to himself, ob
viously kind of out of it,” said Reil
ly, who decided not to linger and
made his way to another bus stop.
Reilly’s description of the man
matches that of Steven Gary Coole,
considered a possible suspect in
the shooting death of a city bus
driver Friday. The bus, carrying 35
people, fell 50 feet off a bridge.
Three people — including the
gunman — died, and 32 people
were injured. Seventeen remained
hospitalized Sunday, with one
man in critical condition. Reilly,
who got on the bus at a later stop,
escaped theprash with minor cuts
and bruises.
Police would not confirm that
Coole shot the driver. Ballistics re
sults, expected Monday, could
identify the gun that killed driver
Mark McLaughlin, 44, who died of
several gunshot wounds to the ab
domen, police spokeswoman
Christie-Lynne Bonner said.
Police said the possible gunman
was found near the bus with an ap
parent self-inflicted gunshot
wound to the head and a fired gun
nearby. A second handgun — un
fired — was recovered from the
dead passenger’s body at Har
borview Medical Center, where he
was pronounced dead Friday.
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