Statement of Congressman Bernie Sanders Regarding Impeachment Vote in Five Towns

Statement

I can very well understand why the citizens of Newfane, Putney, Dummerston, Marlboro, and Brookfield voted yesterday to support the impeachment of President Bush and ask me, as Vermont's Congressman, to introduce those articles. It is my view that President Bush's Administration has been a disaster for our country, and a number of actions that he has taken may very well have been illegal. The difficulty that we face is that with Republicans controlling both the House and the Senate and serving as a virtual rubber stamp for the White House, Congressional leaders have consistently refused to even hold serious hearings or investigations on any of Bush's abuses of power or misguided decisions. Given that reality it would be impractical to talk about impeachment. For those people who are outraged by the conduct of the Bush Administration, who want serious investigations of what they have done, and who want to see the United States move in a new direction, it's my view that all of our energy must go into the November elections with the goal of ending Republican control of the House and Senate.

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