Analysis: Congress wants to force Trump’s hand on subpoenas. It won’t be easy.
Good morning and welcome back. We're waking up to another day of the Trump administration ignoring House Democrats' oversight requests. Tips, comments, recipes? Reach out andHouse Judiciary Committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., reads the Mueller Report in his Capitol Hill office, in Washington, Thursday, April 18, 2019. , frustrated House members are calling for a Plan B.
“Right now, [Speaker Nancy] Pelosi worries that a Democratic caucus looks feckless and impotent,” a Democratic staffer on a congressional oversight committee told Power Up. “First, the criminal contempt statute permits a single house of Congress to certify a contempt citation to the executive branch for the criminal prosecution of an individual who has willfully refused to comply with a committee subpoena.
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