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To: Ray76
There has been no Amendment modifying or removing the authority of either house of Congress to enforce its subpoenas. Nor has any statute done so or could do so.

Then how come none of the links I gave you included enforcement responsibilities -- including arrest and detention -- as any longer within the Sgt at Arms' duties?

A simple reduction in budget would be sufficient to accomplish the practical effect.

82 posted on 12/07/2013 10:36:32 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: okie01

The House ordered the arrest of Sam Houston “wherever to be found”

A statute can not modify or remove the authority of either house of Congress to enforce its rules or subpoenas, and there has been no Amendment to do so.

Can the veracity of any of the above be in doubt?

The entire matter of Houston’s assault on Stanbery is in the House Journal, beginning with Stanbery’s Saturday April 14 letter, the issuance of the arrest order that same day, the bringing of Houston before the House on Monday April 16 through to the Friday May 11 conviction and pronouncement of sentence on Monday May 14 (reprimand), all the while Houston was in the custody of the Sergeant at Arms who arrested him.

U.S. House Journal. 1832. 22nd Cong., 1st sess., 14 April.

http://www.memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28hj025102%29%29:


83 posted on 12/07/2013 11:46:00 PM PST by Ray76
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