11. It takes a two-thirds majority to convict a president and remove him from office. 12. It requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate to convict the president, which would automatically remove him from office. 13. It would require a two-thirds majority to convict the president and remove him from office. 14. Jeffords said he tried in his speech on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday to persuade his Republican colleagues not to buckle to pressure to convict the president. 15. Kerrey said he almost voted to convict the president, and probably would have, had the articles of impeachment been worded differently. 16. Like all Republicans here, Thompson hedged his comments so as not to convict the president prematurely. 17. Maybe he believes that the Senate will not convict the president, a common assumption that could yet prove inaccurate. 18. No president has been convicted in a Senate trial. 19. One former Teamster president was convicted of conspiring to bribe a U.S. senator from Nevada. 20. Separately, two Republicans said that it might be possible for the Senate to vote to convict the president but then vote not to remove him from office. |