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Managing impeachment: Sensenbrenner’s seen it before

Wisconsin Republican was an impeachment manager in Clinton trial

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner R-Wis., and Bill McCollum, R-Fla., talk with reporters near Statuary Hall at the end of the first full day of the 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. (Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call file photo)
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner R-Wis., and Bill McCollum, R-Fla., talk with reporters near Statuary Hall at the end of the first full day of the 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. (Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call file photo)
By Nathan Ouellette
Posted January 22, 2020 at 11:43am

The opening arguments for President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial took 2½ days. Rep. Henry Hyde needed his opening arguments to be shorter in President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial.

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, served as a House manager during the Clinton trial and delivered opening arguments. CQ Roll Call sat with Sensenbrenner to look back on his role in 1999.

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