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It was 20 years ago today
Capitol Hill had a turbulent display

December 19, 1998 (Sat.):
*House impeached President Bill Clinton
*Speaker-designate Bob Livingston made stunning resignation announcement
*Denny Hastert emerged as consensus pick for Speaker. 1/
~9:45 am, Livingston stuns House, addressing Clinton from House floor: "You, sir, may resign your post. [Some Democrats call out, "You resign!"] ... And I can only challenge you in such fashion if I am willing to heed my own words."
c-span.org/video/?c476867… 2/
~1:25 pm: House adopted 1st impeachment article (perjury/grand jury), 228-206.
clerk.house.gov/evs/1998/roll5… 3/

5 Rs voted No: Houghton (NY), King (NY), Morella (MD), Shays (CT), Souder (IN)
5 Ds voted Yes: Goode (VA), Hall (TX), McHale (PA), Stenholm (TX), Gene Taylor (MS)
~1:40 pm: House rejected 2nd impeachment article (perjury/Jones lawsuit), 205-229 clerk.house.gov/evs/1998/roll5… 4/
2:00 pm: House adopted 3rd impeachment article (obstruction of justice), 221-212.
clerk.house.gov/evs/1998/roll5… 5/
2:15 pm: House rejected 4th impeachment article (abuse of power), 148-285, with 81 Republicans voting no. Gene Taylor (MS) the only Democrat who voted yes (he later became a Republican)
clerk.house.gov/evs/1998/roll5… 6/
2:35 pm: House OKed resolution appointing the 13 impeachment trial managers. 7/
4:00 pm hour: Congressional Democrats joined Clinton and Vice President Al Gore at the White House to respond to the impeachment votes
c-span.org/video/?116809-… 8/
Clinton: "I have accepted responsibility for what I did wrong in my personal life, and I have invited members of Congress to work with us to find a reasonable, bipartisan, and proportionate response." 9/
6:06 pm: CNN story, "DeLay, Gingrich support Hastert for House speaker," notes GOP leaders backing Hastert. Quotes Hastert: "My sense of duty now calls me to serve our free nation by seeking a position of great responsibility -- that of speaker ... "
cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/st…
How all House members at the time voted on impeachment: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

The 116th Congress starting next month will include 57 House members (13% of 435) who were House members in December 1998. There are 15 current Senators who were House members 20 years ago. 10/
"I looked him right in the face and said, 'Can you withstand the scrutiny?'"
washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politic… 12/
Bob Livingston in 2018 memoir "The Windmill Chaser"

"I'd gotten used to the high praise, the admiration, and the increasingly heard and genuinely felt comments from people who thought I should run for President; all that was gone, evaporated, and it was my own damn fault." 13/
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