Michael Burgess Quotes
I favor impeaching President O’Bama.
Michael Burgess, U. S. Congressman (Republican, TX), Statement to a Tea Party Meeting, Quoted in The Atlantic, October 2012
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The debate was about the unlimited pardon power of the President. Madison argued that the check was the impeachment power. However, Presidents had tended to make large numbers of pardons just before they leave office so the impeachment power works only as a check for the beginning and middle part of their term.
The President was advised that if he maintained his policies he would be impeached:
Livingston could not stop the process, which had built up a momentum of its own among most Republicans. The debate went on, and, despite public opinion favoring the President, on a highly partisan party line vote Clinton was impeached by the house. The impeachment, only the second in U. S. history, then failed in the Senate.
Michael Clifton Burgess is an American physician and politician serving as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing Texas's 26th congressional district. The district is anchored in Denton County, a suburban county north of Dallas and Fort Worth.