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<\/a>A Democratic Congressman who is helping to lead the investigation into the firing of 8 US Attorneys by the Justice Department made it clear he was contemplating contempt charges if the White House ignores subpoenas that were issued by the House and Senate Judiciary Committees last week.<\/p>\n“Both the House and the Senate Judiciary Committees have issued subpoenas to the White House and several former White House officials for documents and testimony in the controversy that’s before us,” Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, stated in a Thursday hearing. “And we’re still hopeful that they may cooperate. But it is possible that enforcement action may need to be taken.”<\/p>\n
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Michael Roston, Raw Story A Democratic Congressman who is helping to lead the investigation into the firing of 8 US Attorneys by the Justice Department made it clear he was contemplating contempt charges if the White House ignores subpoenas that were issued by the House and Senate Judiciary Committees last week. “Both the House and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-evidence"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/a>A Democratic Congressman who is helping to lead the investigation into the firing of 8 US Attorneys by the Justice Department made it clear he was contemplating contempt charges if the White House ignores subpoenas that were issued by the House and Senate Judiciary Committees last week.<\/p>\n