Senator who tried to impeach Clinton admits lovechild He voted for the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton in 1998 after his affair with Monica Lewinsky, but his floor statement focused on the fact that Clinton had lied under oath, noting that the trial "has never been about the President's private sex acts, as tawdry as they have been." But in the same speech, he cited the value of "truthfulness" as the first pillar of good character. Reached at his home in Washington on Wednesday, Mr Domenici declined to comment further. He and his wife have been married more than 50 years and have eight children. Michelle Laxalt is the daughter of former senator Paul Laxalt, himself a significant political figure in the 1970s and 1980s as he served as Nevada governor and two terms in the Senate alongside Mr Domenici. Ms Laxalt became a prominent lobbyist, Republican activist and television commentator after the affair. She said in the statement that she chose to raise her son as a single parent and that the two agreed that it would be a private matter. "One night's mistake led to pregnancy more than 30 years ago," she said. The website for Adam Laxalt's law firm said he is a former Navy officer and lawyer who served in Iraq. He also worked for the former senator John Warner and as a special assistant to an undersecretary of state. Mr Domenici is the latest in a long line of politicians who were forced to reveal secret children, from one-time presidential candidate John Edwards to the former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Just last week, Steve Cohen, a congressman for Tennessee, acknowledged that he is the father of a 24-year-old woman after the two were seen communicating on Twitter during the State of the Union address.