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43 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 437 (1974-1975)
Good Intentions, Bad Policy: A Vote of No Confidence on the Proposal to Empower Congress to Vote No Confidence in the President

handle is hein.journals/gwlr43 and id is 449 raw text is: Good Intentions, Bad Policy: A Vote of No Confidence on the Proposal to Empower Congress to Vote No Confidence in the President ALLAN P. SINDLER* It is easy to understand what prompted Representative Reuss to intro- duce H.J. Res. 903. By early 1974, the public credibility of President Nixon's repeatei professions of innocence of Watergate wrongdoing was steadily eroding; as a result, his capacity to exercise moral, policy and political leadership appeared increasingly handicapped. Yet, both the public and the Congress seemed reluctant to become committed to an impeachment inquiry, the only available constitutional remedy that might provide some sort of closure on the issue. And throughout the lengthening period, the President and his spokesmen steadfastly maintained that he was not guilty of any impeachable offense, pre- dicted that the House of Representatives would not vote to impeach, and that the Senate surely would not vote to convict, scoffed at the possibility that he might resign, and promised that he would continue in office unless and until the Senate found him guilty under the constitutionally-mandated impeachment process. Little wonder, as time wore on and the Watergate pall deepened with no resolution foreseeable, that some felt that a governmental cri- sis had developed for which the Constitution provided no adequate mode of resolution. Although H.J. Res. 903, proposing a constitutional * Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. January 1975 Vol. 43 No. 2

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