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Also Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to
send the 35 Articles of Impeachment, submitted Monday
evening by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) to the
Judiciary Committee for consideration and hearings.
At their meeting with Conyers, several of the VFP
members, each carrying a bundle of petitions, placed
them on a table in front of the 21-term Michigan
Democrat, and stated why they were in favor of
impeachment.
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Elliott Adams, VFP president, told
Conyers, who is a Korean War veteran, emphasized "it's
not just about impeaching a President, it's about
defending democracy. It is about whether we will
continue to have a government of the people and for
the people."
He warned against letting constitutional government
slip into the dark waters of a unitary presidency,
"...another name for a totalitarian state."
After listening to the veterans, Conyers said
he was not prepared to comment on the
impeachment articles Kucinich introduced, but
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Federal Oath of
Office in the USA
for Congressmen,
Senators and
the President of the United States as set
forth in the US Constitution
I do
solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support
and defend the Constitution of the United
States against all enemies, foreign and
domestic; that I will bear true faith and
allegiance to the same; that I take this
obligation freely, without any mental
reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I
will well and faithfully discharge the duties
of the office on which I am about to enter: So
help me God.
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He invited VFP members to meet with him
again immediately after the Fourth of July recess to
hear what he intended to do. Later that afternoon, Congressman Kucinich met with
the VFP delegation In a corridor off the floor of the
House of Representatives. Kucinich said that if the
Judiciary Committee did not schedule hearings by the
time the Independence Day break was over, he would "be
back with 68 articles the next time, and more after
that until they are heard."
Debbie Tolson, a Washington, D.C. area resident who
attended the meeting with Conyers said, "The next time
we meet with him we want to hear when he intends to
move these articles of impeachment in his committee.
I'm not planning on being as polite as we were today."
VFP's Impeachment Committee attempted unsuccessfully
to get a meeting with Rep. Conyers for over two
months. They finally determined they would take the
petitions to Washington on June 11, and sit in at the
Chairman's office until they met with him or were
arrested. The morning of the group's news conference
announcing their intentions, Conyers' appointment
scheduler called one of the VFP committee members and
scheduled a meeting for that afternoon.
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