Whitewater Trials and Impeachment of a President: 1994-99
Clinton Acquitted
The vote on impeachment came on Friday, February 12, 1999. With a twothirds majority of 100 senators needed to convict, they voted 45 guilty and 55 not guilty on the article of perjury—not even a simple majority—with 10 Republicans voting across the aisle for acquittal. On the charge of obstruction of justice, 5 Republicans joined the Democrats to make an even 50-50 split. Then, immediately following the impeachment vote, a Democratic-sponsored motion for censure was blocked. President William Jefferson Clinton was free of all charges.
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