Jul 15, 2008 5:00 pm US/Eastern
Panel To Review Bush's Alleged Abuse Of Power
WASHINGTON (AP) ―
Rep. Dennis Kucinich's single impeachment article will get a committee hearing but not on removing President Bush from office.
The House on Tuesday voted 238-180 to send the article of impeachment -- for Bush's reasoning for taking the country to war in Iraq -- to the Judiciary Committee, which buried Kucinich's previous effort.
This time, the panel will open hearings. But House Democrats emphatically said they will not be about Bush's impeachment, a first step in the Constitution's process of a removing a president from office.
Instead, the panel will conduct an election-year review -- possibly televised -- of everything Democrats consider to be Bush's abuse of power. Kucinich, a Democrat from Ohio, is likely to testify. But so will several scholars and administration critics, Democrats said.
(© 2008 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
