Pelosi Says House Judiciary May Hold

Hearings On Kucinich Impeachment

Resolution

By John Bresnahan

Jul 10, 2008

(The Politico) Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) said this morning that the House Judiciary Committee may
hold hearings on an impeachment resolution offered by Rep. Dennis
Kucinich (D-Ohio).

Kucinich is expected to offer a "privileged
resolution" this afternoon calling on the House to look at whether
President Bush should be removed from office for lying to Congress and
the American public when he sought congressional approval back in 2002
for taking military action to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein.

Pelosi
has said previously that impeachment "was off the table," so her
comments this morning were surprising, and clearly signaled a new
willingness to entertain the idea of ousting Bush, although no one in
the Democratic leadership believes that is likely since the president
has only six months left in this term.

"This is a Judiciary
Committee matter, and I believe we will some attention being paid to it
by the Judiciary Committee," Pelosi told reporters. "Not necessarily
taking up the articles of impeachment because that would have to be
approved on the floor, but to have some hearings on the subject."

Pelosi added: "My expectation is that there will be some review of that in the committee."

A
spokesman for the House Judiciary Committee had no immediate comment
when asked whether Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the panel's chairman,
planned hearings on Kucinich's impeachment resolutions.

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