DATE=12/16/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-243080
TITLE=CONGRESS-IRAQ (S ONLY)
BYLINE=PAULA WOLFSON
DATELINE=CAPITOL HILL
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ARE PREPARING FOR
AN IMPEACHMENT VOTE WHILE TENSIONS WITH IRAQ RISE. CORRESPONDENT
PAULA WOLFSON REPORTS IF MILITARY ACTION OCCURS, THE HOUSE
REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP WILL FACE A DILEMMA OF DEBATING CHARGES IN
THE CLINTON SEX SCANDAL WHILE THE PRESIDENT IS DIRECTING U-S
TROOPS.
TEXT: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN HENRY HYDE SAYS
CONGRESS SHOULD NOT DEBATE THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
WHILE MILITARY AIRSTRIKES ARE UNDERWAY. HE SAYS IT WOULD BE
AWKWARD TO HAVE AN IMPEACHMENT VOTE DURING AN ATTACK ON IRAQ.
THERE HAS BEEN NO OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE REPUBLICAN
LEADRSHIP, BUT IT IS CLEAR HOUSE PROCEEDINGS WOULD NOT BE
CANCELED, JUST POSTPONED.
HOUSE MEMBERS ARE BEING ASKED IF THEY SEE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN
THE SITUATION IN IRAQ AND THE IMPEACHMENT ISSUE. OHIO'S BOB NEY
SAYS THERE IS NO LINK.
/// NEY ACT ///
IF HYPOTHETICALLY, AN ATTACK IS MADE ON IRAQ WE WILL
DEAL WITH IT AT THAT TIME AS A SEPARATE ISSUE.
/// END ACT ///
MR. NEY SAYS PRESIDENT CLINTON COULD FACE A SKEPTICAL PUBLIC, AND
WILL NEED TO PERSUADE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AN ATTACK IS WARRANTED.
(SIGNED)
NEB/PW/LTD/RAE
16-Dec-98 1:25 PM EST (1825 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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