* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an " improper physical relationship " with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

In 1998, during debate on a Succession to the Crown Bill, Junior Home Office Minister Lord Williams of Mostyn informed the House of Lords that the Queen had " no objection to the Government's view that in determining the line of succession to the throne, daughters and sons should be treated in the same way ".

In a lame-duck session of Congress after the 1998 elections, the House voted to impeach Clinton, based on the results of the Lewinsky scandal.

Announcements from the Vice President and the White House in 1998 initiated these changes.

" Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition ", Random House, 1998.

** Bill Clinton, Democrat, was impeached on December 19, 1998, by the House of Representatives on articles charging perjury ( specifically, lying to a federal grand jury ) by a 228 – 206 vote, and obstruction of justice by a 221 – 212 vote.

Prime Minister Hashimoto headed a loose coalition of three parties until the July 1998 Upper House election, when the two smaller parties cut ties with the LDP.

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U. S. President Bill Clinton denies having had " sexual relations " with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

* In 1998, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee voted to cite Reno for contempt of Congress for not turning over documents during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

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On January 26, 1998, Clinton claimed " I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky " in a nationally televised White House news conference.

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U. S. President Bill Clinton.

* Former U. S. President Bill Clinton was accused of perjury and as a result was impeached by the House of Representatives on 19 December 1998.

The House has thus far impeached two presidents: Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998.

* ' The Judith Durham Story – Colours Of My Life ' by Graham Simpson ( Random House, 1994, 1998, 2000 ), ( Virgin Books, 2004 ).

* White, Donna R., Dancing with Dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Critics ( Ontario: Camden House, 1998 Criticism in Perspective )

* Video of " White House Tour ", C-SPAN Jul 7, 1998

However, in the 1998 History Channel documentary entitled Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History, the speculation that Harding may have joined the group is highlighted by the fact that William J. Simmons, the founder of the modern Klan, once visited the President at the White House.

* Lewinsky scandal – US president Bill Clinton was caught in a media-frenzied scandal involving inappropriate relations with a White House intern Monica Lewinsky, first announced on 21 January 1998.

After the U. S. House of Representatives impeached Clinton on 19 December 1998 for perjury under oath, following an investigation by federal prosecutor Kenneth Starr, the Senate acquitted Clinton of the charges on 12 February 1999 and he finished his second term.

At times, he has supported Democrats in California, including liberal House of Representatives member Sam Farr in 2002 and Governor Gray Davis, whom he voted for in 1998 and hosted pricey fundraisers for in 2002 and 2003.

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Gingrich's hold on the leadership was weakened significantly by that and several other controversies, as he faced a caucus revolt in 1997, and after the Republicans lost House seats in 1998 ( although retaining a majority ) he did not stand for a third term as Speaker.

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* The Acid House ( 1998 )

* Goodwin, Jason ( 1998 ) Lords of the Horizons.

" was quoted with regard to Lord Cranborne, a contemporary member of the Cecil family who, in 1998, was dismissed from his Conservative Party office in the House of Lords for conducting unauthorised negotiations with the Labour government.

One of his final public appearances came on 29 April 2002, when at the age of 90 he sat alongside the then prime minister Tony Blair and the three other surviving former prime ministers at the time at Buckingham Palace for a dinner which formed part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations, alongside his daughter Margaret, Baroness Jay, who had served as Leader of the House of Lords from 1998 to 2001.

The Lords could also declare a law inconsistent with the European Convention on Human Rights pursuant to section 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998.

A subsequent court of appeal decision in 1998 declared Reynolds had not received a fair hearing in his High Court action and the case continued to be heard in the House of Lords.

* Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 19 October 1998

From 1998 to 2001 she was a Government Whip in the House of Lords and also a spokesperson on Social Security, International Development and Women's Issues as well as one of the Government's spokespersons in the House of Lords on Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

However his petition in 1998 to take his father's seat in the House of Lords was refused by the Lord Chancellor.

David Rohl's published works A Test of Time ( 1995 ), Legend ( 1998 ), The Lost Testament ( 2002 ), and The Lords of Avaris ( 2007 ) set forth Rohl's theories for redating the major civilisations of the ancient world.

The motions were named after Lord Sewel, then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland who announced the policy in the House of Lords during the passage of the Scotland Act 1998.

However hanging remained available until 1998 when, under a House of Lords amendment to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, proposed by Lord Archer of Sandwell, the death penalty was abolished for treason and piracy with violence, replacing it with a discretionary maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

:* The Hippopotamus Marsh: Lords of the Two Lands, Volume One ( 1998 )

This silence, however, was broken in 1998, when the Queen announced the Government's plan of abolishing the right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords.

* Bragg was appointed to the House of Lords as " Baron Bragg, of Wigton in the County of Cumbria "; Labour life peer ( 1998 )

In 1998, the House of Lords constituted a Committee to modernise the entire ceremony.

The ceremony for Lords Spiritual has been significantly simpler, and was not affected by the recommendations of the 1998 Committee.

In 1998 Strathclyde, along with the entire Conservative front bench in the House of Lords, threatened to tender his resignation if the party refused to accept a proposed compromise plan for reform of the Lords that had been negotiated by Lord Cranborne, Conservative leader in the Lords, to the disapproval of party leader William Hague.

From July 1998 to November 2006, he held the post of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry, as the Minister for Science and Innovation in the House of Lords, a government position for which he accepted no salary.