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    Impeach Clinton? Impeach Trump? What lawmakers said then, what they say now

    by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times Sep 30, 2019 5 minutes

    The last time Congress weighed impeachment of a president was in 1998, which politically amounts to eons ago.

    Attitudes - about the exploitation of women, the private lives of public figures, the rules of political engagement - have changed a good deal.

    So, too, have the statements and seeming viewpoint of many involved in the impeachment of Democratic President William J. Clinton who now contemplate the impeachment of Republican President Donald J. Trump. Impeachment is, after all, a political exercise, not a criminal trial.

    After a sprawling, years-long investigation - into an Arkansas land deal, allegations of campaign finance violations, charges of cronyism - Clinton faced articles of impeachment in the House. Both stemmed from his extramarital affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and Clinton's attempt to hide their relationship.

    On Dec. 19, 1998, during a lame-duck session of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, lawmakers

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