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JMPEACHMENT OF WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON,

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES /

REPORT

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

together with
ADDITIONAL, MINORITY, AND DISSENTING VIEWS

TO ACCOMPANY

H. RES. 611

DECEMBER 16, 1998 (pursuant to clause 2(1)(5) of rule XI).-Referred to
the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
| + 52—880 WASHINGTON : 1998

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
HENRY J. HYDE, Illinois, Chairman

F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan
Wisconsin BARNEY FRANK, Massachusetts
BILL McCOLLUM, Florida CHARLES E. SCHUMER, New York
GEORGE W. GEKAS, Pennsylvania HOWARD L. BERMAN, California
HOWARD COBLE, North Carolina RICK BOUCHER, Virginia
LAMAR S. SMITH, Texas JERROLD NADLER, New York
ELTON GALLEGLY, California ROBERT C. SCOTT, Virginia -
CHARLES T. CANADY, Florida MELVIN L, WATT, North Carolina
BOB INGLIS, South Carolina ZOE LOFGREN, California
BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia SHEILA JACKSON LEE, Texas
STEPHEN E. BUYER, Indiana MAXINE WATERS, California
ED BRYANT, Tennessee MARTIN T. MEEHAN, Massachusetts
STEVE CHABOT, Ohio WILLIAM D. DELAHUNT, Massachusetts
BOB BARR, Georgia ROBERT WEXLER, Florida
WILLIAM L. JENKINS, Tennessee STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey
ASA HUTCHINSON, Arkansas THOMAS M. BARRETT, Wisconsin

EDWARD A. PEASE, Indiana
CHRISTOPHER B. CANNON, Utah
JAMES E. ROGAN, California
LINDSEY O. GRAHAM, South Carolina
MARY BONO, California

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Articles of Impeachment ........................................................................................

I. Introduction ..........

II. Narrative .................................... ----

. The Paula Jones Litigation ....................................................................

. The Relationship Between President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky .

. The Events of December 5–6, 1997—President Clinton Learns Ms.

. The Events of Late January, 1998—The Deposition Aftermath

. The Events of August 17, 1998—The Grand Jury Testimony ..

M. Answers to the Committee's Requests for Admission ...........

III. Explanation of Articles of Impeachment ...........................

Lewinsky is on the Witness List .....................................

Lewinsky that She is on the Witness List ............................................

. The Events of December 19, 1997—Ms. Lewinsky Receives a Sub-

POena ........................................................................................................

. The Events of December 28, 1997—Ms. Currie Retrieves the Gifts ...

. The Events of January 5–9, 1997—Ms. Lewinsky Signs the False

Affidavit and Gets the Job .....................................................................

The Filing of the False Affidavit .................................................. --

. The Events of January 17, 1998–President Clinton and Mr. Bennett

at the Deposition ......................................................................................

A. Article I—Perjury in the Grand Jury o

1. The Committee concluded that, on August 17, 1998, the Presi-

dent provided perjurious, false, and misleading testimony to a

Federal grand jury concerning the nature and details of his

relationship with a subordinate government employee. .................

2. The Committee concluded that the President provided perjuri-

ous, false, and misleading testimony to a Federal grand jury

concerning prior perjurious, false, and misleading testimony he

gave in a federal civil rights action brought against him. ..............

3. The Committee concluded that the President provided perjuri-

ous, false, and misleading testimony to a Federal grand jury

concerning prior perjurious, false, and misleading statements he

allowed his attorney to make to a Federal judge in that civil

rights action. ...............................

4. The Committee concluded that the President provided perjuri-

ous, false, and misleading testimony to a Federal grand jury

concerning his corrupt efforts to influence the testimony of wit-

nesses and to impede the discovery of evidence in that civil

rights action. .............................

a. The President gave perjurious, false, and misleading testi-

mony before the grand jury when he denied engaging in

a plan to hide evidence that had been subpoenaed in the

federal civil rights action against him. .....................................

b. The President made perjurious, false, and misleading state-

ments before the grand jury regarding his knowledge that

the contents of an affidavit executed by a subordinate federal

employee who was a witness in the federal civil rights action

brought against him were untrue. .............................................