Sanford attorney Butch Bowers gives an opening statement before a House impeachment panel Tuesday.
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(AP) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina legislators have resumed discussions on whether Gov. Mark Sanford should be impeached as they consider issues involving his travel on state-owned aircraft.
Tuesday's hearing is the second of at least four for the seven members of the House Judiciary Committee in the wake of Sanford's tearful confession of an affair earlier this year.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Harrison says legislators are looking at state Ethics Commission charges involving the Republican governor's use of state airplanes for personal and political purposes.
Before the hearing, Sanford's attorneys distributed a handout laying out their response to the allegations. Sanford has been under scrutiny since he returned in June from a rendezvous with his Argentine lover and confessed a yearlong affair.
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