{"id":4802,"date":"2008-02-13T10:03:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T16:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=4802"},"modified":"2017-05-21T15:13:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T21:13:11","slug":"house-vote-on-contempt-for-meirs-bolten-is-expected-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/house-vote-on-contempt-for-meirs-bolten-is-expected-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"House Vote on Contempt for Meirs, Bolten Is Expected Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ph2006020702148.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ph2006020702148.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>By CARL HULSE, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/13\/us\/13contempt.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Democratic House leaders plan to force a vote as early as Thursday on holding Joshua B. Bolten, White House chief of staff, and Harriet E. Miers, former White House counsel, in contempt of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Congressional officials said the House leadership had essentially decided to go ahead with the vote, which is expected to spark a fight with Republicans over what they see as a politically inspired inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>The contempt citation, approved in July by the Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote, stems from the refusal of the two to testify before the panel in the investigation into whether several United States attorneys were dismissed for political reasons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/13\/us\/13contempt.html?_r=2&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CARL HULSE, New York Times Democratic House leaders plan to force a vote as early as Thursday on holding Joshua B. Bolten, White House chief of staff, and Harriet E. 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