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40 Facts About the History of Impeachment (And The Presidents Who Couldn’t Escape Its Fate)

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21. The House of Representatives Voted for Impeachment

An official White House photo taken in 1995showing President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky at the White House. The White House / AP / Business Insider.

In 1998, when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke out, the House of Representatives had a Republican majority, and they voted to impeach the president. Many critics argued that the issue of the president having an affair was detracting from matters of state, such as CIA operations in Afghanistan, and that he should have never even been put under oath regarding the relationship in the first place.

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