REPUBLICAN leaders will have to make history should Independent Counsel Ken Starr report potentially impeachable offenses by the President, and so a member of the House has been tapped to study some recent history. Speaker Newt Gingrich and Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde have asked Washington newcomer James Rogan to interview current and former members of Congress who have conducted investigations of the Executive Branch—most of them notable for their failure.
Relying on the most junior member of the Judiciary Committee for this sensitive mission may not sound like the brightest decision, but California’s Jim Rogan—with his experience both as a prosecutor and as a partisan fighter—may well be the perfect man for the job.
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