Congress’ Contempt Power: Law, History, Practice, and Procedure
July 27th, 2007
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12235541
This week the House Judiciary Committee voted to issue contempt of Congress citations against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and President Bush’s former legal counselor, Harriet Miers, for ignoring their subpoenas at the request of the President.
Bush claims executive privilege, Congress doesn’t agree. So what exactly is a contempt of Congress, what is the legal history, what does it all mean?
If you want to learn more first you can check out a brief description of this issue over at NPR.
Then you can check out the Congressional Resource Services exhaustive report (PDF) thanks to the Federation of American Sciences Project on Government Secrecy
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