them what to do next. we ve dis covered, especially this time around, there s a fragile set of what yugsed to be gentlemanly understandings that have evaporated. frfrs yes, butted th they worked . and i don t mean the vagueness of what constitutes an impeachable ofenfense or lack o guidance except it s supposed to begin in the house for impeachment or indictment, senate for conviction or being thrown out of office. what s fragile about it is it really hangs on the parties being able to work together to some degree. that s what happened in 1974. you-at least seven republicans on the democratic control house judiciary committee who voted for some of the articles of impeachment. and that s why that impeachment largely didn t happen.
also irrelevant to me. and to most of my colleagues. i think this is something president just can t understand. that there are all of these members of the house, including some who came from districts that he won, who are make asing decision based on what s wright # right and wrong. the six-page screen of nancy pelosi, engs# expresses his bewilderment. he doesn t know with us. speaker pelosi has more than enough votes now, especially the freshman democrats have more than put this over the top. how much pressure, how much working the vote has been happening among democrats on the impeachment articles? virtually none i have seen.
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quite envision. they were very against factions or parties and kept warning against having those. well, we have them fairly well now. and if you have strong partisanship and you have a president who is determined to do everything to block impeachment from working, it doesn t work. it s barely hanging in now. we have a very narrow set of articles of impeachment. they don t really disclose or dispose of the way the president has governed during this period. and i really fear that it may be we may have found that impeachment doesn t work anymore. in the clinton impeachment trial of the senate, republican leader, senate democratic leader got together, easily agreed on rules for the trial. they added to the rules midstream in the trial.
publication of those nude photos of the congresswoman, published without her consent. hill saying that she could barely get out of bed after those photos leaked. and calling the events surrounding her resignation the dirtiest gutter politics she had ever seen. this is the last speech that i will give from this floor as a member of congress. freshman democratic lawmaker katie hill giving her final speech in congress. show denies having an improper relationship with a member of her congressional staff, but admits she had an inappropriate relationship with a campaign staffer before taking office. private photos of her and the staffer leaked online by a conservative blog. hill soon admitting to the relationship, calling it inappropriate. without objection. in thursday s speech, hill apologized to constituents. to those who felt like i gave them hope, in one of the darkest times in our nation s history, i m sorry. to my family, my friends, my staff, my colleagues, my