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To: okie01

What are the possibilities? I’m sure they will do what they can do.


19 posted on 05/09/2014 8:17:08 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U
Possible responses in the event the Administration refuses to cooperate:

1. Go to court. That's where disputes between the Legislative and the Executive are usually resolved. The 1st Circuit, however, is a mixed bag and it would be quite possible to end up with a judge who won't recognize an open and shut case of Administration lawlessness.

2. Assign the House Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest whoever refuses to respond to the Committee's subpoena and seize the evidence requested. It is unclear, however, whether the House actually retains this weaponry -- it hasn't been deployed for eighty years (not since 1934).

3. Take House action to defund something critical to the Administration, pending a satisfactory response. Such action, however, would require the Speaker to stand for the Committee and its investigatory objective. Not a certainty, in my mind.

Perhaps, there are more. And I would suggest that Chairman Gowdy is investigating them all.

27 posted on 05/09/2014 8:43:42 PM PDT by okie01
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