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in2herbs

(2,945 posts)
17. In response to your question:
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 06:34 PM
Mar 2020

The House, by its rules, has authorized its committees to issue subpoenas only for matters within their legislative jurisdiction. Congressional rules empower all its standing committees with the authority to compel witnesses to produce testimony and documents for subjects under its jurisdiction.

Inherent contempt: the procedure for holding a person in contempt involves only the chamber concerned. Following a contempt citation, the person cited is arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms for the House or Senate, brought to the floor of the chamber, held to answer charges by the presiding officer, and then subjected to punishment as the chamber may dictate (usually imprisonment for punishment, imprisonment for coercion, or release from the contempt citation.

IMO there are a lot of ways HRC can reject the subpoena. I hope she brings a court motion and demand that the Senate explain what they expect to learn from her testimony that they didn't learn during her 11 hours of previous testimony and during their 17 investigations in Benghazi.

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