Presidential Impeachment:
Censure

What is Censure? (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
Overview of what censure is and the procedure for it (http://www.law.cornell.edu/background/impeach/censure.htm)
Alternatives to Impeachment: What May Congress Do? (Association of the Bar of the City of New York)
Dec. 10, 1998 report by the Committee on Federal Legislation, concludes that censure resolution is constitutional (http://www.abcny.org/impch98.htm)
Censure of the President by Congress (U.S. House of Representatives)
Congressional Research Service overview and discussion of the legal basis and precedents for a 'censure' of the President (http://www.house.gov/judiciary/98-843a.pdf)
Senate Censure/Condemnation Cases (CongressLink)
List of Representatives and Senators who have been censured (http://www.congresslink.org/sources/censure.html)
H.J. Res 139: Expressing the sense of Congress with respect to the censure of William Jefferson Clinton
Introduced by Reps. Houghton and King on Dec. 17, 1998, and died in committee (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.J.RES.139: )
H.J.Res. 140: Condemning and censuring William Jefferson Clinton
Introduced by Rep. McHale on Dec. 17, 1998 and died in committee (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.J.RES.140:)
Text of Sen. Feinstein's Censure Motion (Conservative News Service)
The motion was neither introduced nor considered, due to the objection of Sen. Gramm (Texas) (2/12/99) (http://www.conservativenews.org/InDepth/archive/199902/IND19990212c.html)

Procedures | Impeachment of Clinton

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