The House of Representatives Is Given the Authority to Impeach

On September 26, 1973, Spiro Agnew asked the house again to launch an impeachment inquiry to him and that request was denied by the speaker of the house Carl Albert. There were charges that he had received bribes from construction companies during his time as a Baltimore County executive at his time as governor of Maryland. What ultimately happened was the grand jury investigation moved forward. And on October 10, 1973, as part of a plea bargain relating to charges of tax evasion, vice president Agnew resigned.