ABC13 12/19/2019
Bill Clinton Impeachment: Looking back to December 1998 as Washington braces for President Trump's impeachment vote
As the House of Representatives officially voted to impeach President Donald Trump, America is reminded of a very similar and simultaneously very different showdown in Washington: the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
The Republican-controlled House voted in October 1998 to begin impeachment proceedings against Clinton after months of controversy over his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
That vote was triggered by two rounds of testimony given by Clinton earlier in the year. In January, he denied having a sexual relationship with Lewinsky; in August, under questioning from independent counsel Kenneth Starr before a federal grand jury, he testified that he engaged in an inappropriate relationship with Lewinsky.
Clinton was impeached on Dec. 19, 1998, on the grounds of perjury to a grand jury and obstruction of justice.
A Senate trial against Clinton commenced on Jan. 7, 1999, and unfolded over four weeks, with Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding.
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