Jerry Nadler also had different views on impeachment in 1998.
Both parties must support impeachment, he said in 1998, or else it would divide the country too much.
"There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment substantially supported by one of our major political parties and largely opposed by the other,” he said then.
“Such an impeachment would lack legitimacy, would produce divisiveness and bitterness in our politics for years to come and will call into question the very legitimacy of our political institutions," he added.