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Whatwe that means, its to use e power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring orfi injuring the national interest, or acts in ways that are grossly inconsistent with and undermine the separation of powers that is the foundation of our democratic system. Now, this question of whether the president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. And president nixon famously said, if the president does it, it is ...

>> the gentleman yields back. thank anyou, both for your presentations. mr. burke, you are now excused. >> mr. chairman, i have a parliamentary inquiry. >> the gentleman will state his parliamentary inquiry. >> pursuant to house b of the house torules, the chairman is allowed to administer an oath, notr mandated to. but it has been the practice of this committee to administer oaths to witnesses. im wondering why we have not administered the oathwe in this situation. >> im going to administer the...