Reply #35: Feinstein's censure resolution reintroduced right AFTER impeachment vote!

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To their credit, some of the original 38 co-sponsors, including John Kerry, said it was time to move on, and he voted accordingly to postpone indefinitely consideration of Feinstein's reintroduced censure resolution.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/censure021399.htm

And so, only minutes after acquitting President Clinton on two articles of impeachment, the Senate voted yesterday to postpone indefinitely consideration of a strongly worded resolution that condemned Clinton for "shameful, reckless and indefensible" behavior in the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal.

<>Feinstein later yesterday reintroduced the censure resolution, which had 38 co-sponsors, including nine Republicans, making it part of the Senate record. She said she was undecided about making a second attempt to pass the resolution, but conceded that the impeachment trial had been "an enormously trying situation for everybody and people want to leave it, they want to close the door and leave it."

Even many of Feinstein's supporters echoed that sentiment, suggesting that there will be little incentive to resume the censure debate when the Senate returns from its Presidents' Day recess on Feb. 22.

"I don't want to go back into it," said Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.). "I think this is it. It's over. Let's move on."