"Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) told Vice President Dick Cheney to "resign or face impeachment" Thursday night as three more House Democrats lent their support to a plan (H.R. 333) to impeach the vice president... "When a sitting vice president claims that he is not part of the executive branch of government to which he was elected, it is time to remove him from office," McDermott said. "The intent of this administration, and this vice president, has been to silence all dissent... Fear is what kept this administration in office in 2004, and fear is the only public discourse this administration understands..."

See: The Hill article (2007-06)