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Conyers: Impeachment off Pelosi's
table, but not mine
Nick Juliano
Raw
Story
Thursday Aug 30, 2007
Rep. John Conyers declared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
could not stop him from beginning impeachment proceedings in the
House Judiciary Committee against a 'long list of people'in the
Bush administration, although he did not make a firm commitment
to begin proceedings.
"Nancy Pelosi has impeachment 'off the table,' but that's
off her table, it is not off John Conyers' table," the Michigan
Democrat said during a town hall meeting in his district Tuesday.
"Nancy Pelosi, who I actually supported, cannot prevent me
from introducing an impeachment resolution against, well I've
got a long list of people who are eligible."
Conyers did not announce plans to begin impeachment proceedings,
which he has previously said would be politically untenable. Rather,
his speech seemed to indicate that pro-impeachment activists did
not yet convince him that Bush and Cheney deserved to be booted
from office. A Conyers spokesman did not immediately respond to
RAW STORY's request for clarification of the congressman's comments.
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"I want you to know that I have no reticence, no reluctance,
no hesitation to use the tool of impeachment ... whenever I feel
that it is appropriate," Conyers said. "I only wish
that I could be moved by a lot of people coming to my office."
One activist who helped organize hundreds of protesters who traveled
to Washington to push Conyers to begin impeachment remains unconvinced
that the congressman will actually take action.
"I think John Conyers ... is saying, 'I'm not going to do
what my constituency wants, I'm going to do what the Democratic
leadership wants,'" Tina M. Richards, CEO of Grassroots America,
told RAW STORY Wednesday.
Although she acknowledged Conyers "adamantly wants to impeach,"
Richards said he is being precluded from doing so by Pelosi and
other top House Democrats. Hundreds of impeachment activists are
expected to descend on Pelosi's office next month to pressure
the House Speaker to allow impeachment proceedings.
The 21-term congressman, who took control of the Judiciary Committee
this year, boasted that he was the first to introduce a resolution
calling for Richard Nixon's impeachment.
Conyers mentioned frequent visits by anti-war activist Cindy
Sheehan, who recently led hundreds of protesters to urge him to
begin impeachment proceedings. He told the activists he would
not begin impeachment hearings because there is not enough support
among Democrats, who control the House, for the move.
"I understand the politics of impeachment," Conyers
said. "But we have something going on now that we've never
had before."
The following video was posted online Wednesday:
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