House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler -- one of the impeachment managers prosecuting President Donald Trump -- believes perjury and obstruction of justice need not be impeachable offenses.
Or that is what Nadler claimed in 1998, when he was a dissenting minority member on a Judiciary Committee that approved four articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton.
Clinton -- like Nadler -- was a Democrat.
The full House voted to approve two of the four articles against Clinton -- with five Democrats voting for each of the approved articles.
One article alleged Clinton committed perjury in a federal grand jury.
"The Committee concluded that, on August 17, 1998, the President provided perjurious, false, and misleading testimony to a Federal grand jury concerning the nature and details of his relationship with a subordinate government employee," said part of the committee's summary of that article.
The other article the House approved alleged Clinton obstructed justice.
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