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...impeachment is now headed in the other direction. CNN reports that at least a dozen more GOP moderates hold views similar to those of the four representatives who Tuesday asked Trent Lott to ignore that bit in the articles about ?removal from office.? But TIME congressional correspondent James Carney says that hopes for a pre-trial censure deal will run up against the same brick wall that quashed a compromise in the House: Republican leaders in thrall to the far right. ?Trent Lott can?t be seen to be doing Clinton any favors,? he said. ?The conservatives got Lott where...
...Reported by Jay Branegan, James Carney, John F. Dickerson, Viveca Novak and Karen Tumulty/Washington
...Democrats realize that impeachment is a done deal," says TIME congressional correspondent James Carney. "But now they see the opportunity to make the Republicans look bad." This latest twist is a bonus that comes on top of arguing what many Democrats earnestly believe to be also a matter of principle: Stand behind the President in times of foreign conflict. Republicans, meanwhile, are hobbled by the calendar, says Carney. They don't want to impeach Clinton Christmas week or New Year's week, and they don't want the impeachment vote to slip over into the new Congress next month. Washington...
...JAMES CARNEY, TIME's Capitol Hill correspondent, told Nation editor Priscilla Painton two weeks ago that Texas Congressman Tom DeLay would play a major role in the impeachment hearings. "In the absence of any other Republican leader, he's taking the reins," says Carney of the man he and fellow congressional correspondent John Dickerson profile this week. Carney's prescience has proved invaluable during his 10 years at TIME, which has included stints as a correspondent at the White House, in Moscow and in Miami. "He's wired into what's happening on the Hill," says Painton...
...Reported by Jay Branegan, James Carney and John F. Dickerson/Washington