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Nancy Pelosi: We Won't Impeach Bush

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Would-be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi all but ruled out launching impeachment hearings against President Bush on Sunday, saying that if Democrats take over the House in November she'd make that decision and not Michigan Rep. John Conyers, who would assume control of the House Judiciary Committee.

Asked about Conyers' repeated calls for an impeachment investigation, Pelosi told NBC's "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert: "Democrats are not about impeachment - Democrats are about bringing the country together."

Reminded that Conyers would be heading up the Judiciary Committee, Pelosi shot back - "That's not where the [impeachment] decision would be made"

"I am the leader. Our caucus will decide where we're going," she declared. "I don't see us going to a place of impeachment."

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  In December Conyers introduced HR 635, a resolution that would create "a select committee to investigate the administration's intent to go to war before congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and countenancing torture [and] retaliating against critics."

The legislation says that the select committee should "make recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment."

37 House Democrats now support Conyers' impeachment bill, according to the Progressive Democrats for America web site.

While Pelosi insisted she had no plans for an impeachment probe, she did acknowledge that she would use her newfound subpoena power to "have hearings on [the Iraq] war" - the same topic covered by HR 635.

Asked if she would take impeachment "off the table," Pelosi said: "You never know where the facts take you for any president. But that's not what we're about."

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