Response from Congressman Olver:

While I feel the same outrage and distrust clearly felt by those who want to launch impeachment proceedings against the Vice President and President, I believe that the 67 Senate votes constitutionally required to remove either of them from office cannot be achieved in the 110th Congress.

I want an end to the war in Iraq and a robust reassertion of Congress's co-equal authority in decision-making and ensuring compliance with federal law, and I believe that changes in policy direction can be achieved by repeatedly challenging the President legislatively on Iraq and other matters, even without a veto-proof majority. With increasing support for legislative efforts to draw down U.S. military forces in Iraq, there will be a number of opportunities presented throughout the 110th Congress to enact reversals of President Bush's disastrous foreign policy.

It is also critical that the 110th Congress spend time on other issues, like providing retirement security, strengthening public education, expanding health care coverage, protecting consumers, providing upward economic mobility for low-income families, curbing global warming and enhancing the civil liberties of all categories of Americans. With close majority-minority ratios in both the House and the Senate, some bipartisanship is also probably necessary to address these challenges, and I support doing what is necessary to achieve some successes in these areas.

I have and will continue to support investigations to hold the Bush administration accountable for its conduct. I want many of President Bush's policies permanently reversed and will work to achieve that end in the shortest amount of time possible.