Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 30, 1974. Statement of Representative Bob Latta
Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 30, 1974. Statement of Representative Bob Latta
Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 30, 1974. Statement of Representative Bob Latta (R - Ohio).
Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 30, 1974. Statement of Representative Bob Latta
Representative Robert McClory (R Illinois). I yield to the gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Latta. Peter Rodino (D - New Jersey). The gentleman has I minute remaining. Bob Latta (R Ohio). Thank you very much for yielding. Robert McClory (R Illinois). I would like to yield about 45 seconds so I have 15 seconds. Bob Latta (R Ohio). I might say to my friend from Illinois that he is using my 4 minutes. He already spoke 10 minutes on this. So I am very generous. So he ought to let me at least have 60 seconds.
Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 30, 1974. Statement of Representative Bob Latta
Bob Latta (R Ohio). I just want to point out one thing before we vote on this very important article. And it is a very important article. History will record this as a precedent, a precedent, and in the future whenever any Congress wants to impeach a President of the United States, it can cite this article as a precedent. Now, whenever you have, as the gentleman from Virginia has pointed out, a majority of any committee that has subpoena power decides to send down to the White House a subpoena that the Chief Executive does not choose to honor, he is subject to impeachment. Now, this is a dangerous precedent and I think when we are talking about diminishing the powers of the Presidency, here is another example of that and I don't think we should take this long step toward further diminishing the powers of the Presidency.
Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 30, 1974. Statement of Representative Bob Latta
Robert McClory (R Illinois). Mr. Chairman, I would just say in conclusion that if what my colleague from Michigan says is true, that if we are powerless when it comes to expressing our authority with regard to impeachment where another branch of government is concerned and we have to take whatever they give and that is all. Why then of course, the power of impeachment would be sterile indeed and I urge a favorable vote on this article. Peter Rodino (D - New Jersey). All time has expired.