line vote, would be only the third in U.S. history and the first since President Richard Nixon‘s Watergate scandal in 1974. The full 435-member House still must approve the inquiry. The resolution approved by the House Judiciary Committee would allow a broad, open-ended investigation of Clinton that could be expanded to include Whitewater, campaign fund-raising abuses and a host of other issues. Republicans had earlier rejected a Democratic attempt to limit the length and scope of the inquiry, confining the probe to the Lewinsky matter and concluding it by late November. The vote by the full House is expected later this week, before Congress adjourns for the year and members scatter to campaign for the Nov. 3 elections. Earlier on Monday, the Republicans‘ top investigator alleged 15 potential impeachable offences by Clinton, four more than independent counsel Kenneth Starr had cited in his report to Congress last month.