Jim Sensenbrenner in The Mueller Report

On Principles & Values: Mueller should have decided impeachable conduct

SENSENBRENNER [to Robert Mueller] : I was on this committee during the Clinton impeachment. The independent counsel statute under which Kenneth Starr operated is different from the [Mueller] special counsel statute; [but Starr], in a number of occasions in his report, stated that "Clinton's actions may have risen to impeachable conduct, recognizing that it is up to the House of Representatives to determine what conduct is impeachable." You never used the term "rising to impeachable conduct." Did the president engage in impeachable conduct?

MUELLER: Our mandate does not go to other ways of addressing conduct; our mandate goes to developing the report.

SENSENBRENNER: There are a couple of statements that you made, "This is not for me to decide," and the implication is this was for this committee to decide. Now, you didn't use the word "impeachable conduct" like Starr did. But there was no statute to prevent you from using the words "impeachable conduct."

Source: Mueller Report House testimony regarding impeaching Trump Jul 24, 2019

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