Senate Judiciary Approves Contempt Resolutions Against Rove, Bolten
Developing…From Politico.com:
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved contempt resolutions against Karl Rove, the former top aide to President Bush, and Joshua Bolten, the current White House chief of staff. The vote was 12-8.
The criminal contempt resolutions now move to the Senate floor, although no action on them is expected until next year.
Sen. Alren Specter (R-Pa.), ranking member of Judiciary, voted in favor of issuing the contempt resolutions, saying the committee’s oversight responsibilities must be upheld.
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) also supported the resolutions.
“It is a vote that I would prefer not to make,” Specter said. “It is a vote I make with reluctance.”
The House Judiciary Committee has also approved contempt resolutions against Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has not set a date for a floor vote yet.
The committee subpoenaed Rove and Bolten over the summer as part of its probe into the firing of nine U.S. attorneys last year. Bush, citing executive privilege, refused to allow Rove and Bolten to testify or turn over documents to thr panel. Bolten was subpoenaed in his role as custodian of White House records, while Rve called to testify over his knowledge on the role politics played in the firings.
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December 13th, 2007 at 8:07 amThere is no end to how much of our money these assholes (and I mean all of them) in Congress like to waste. Not to mention how much time they are wasting.
How about talking about something important, like maintaining the American way of life.
December 13th, 2007 at 8:19 amWhat are these assholes going to do to amuse themselves a year and few months from now? It would be better to flush our tax dollars down the toilet than pay these cluster fucks a penny for being our “representatives”..
Now, where did I put my barf bag?
December 13th, 2007 at 8:19 amBAAAAAA! April Fools!
December 13th, 2007 at 8:27 amDisregard that first post. it was meant for another story..
Anyways. They need to stop dragging their feet on endless brick wall investigations and start working for the people they represent. I would rather burn my money then give anymore to these lowlife scumbags. but we’re stuck with them for now
December 13th, 2007 at 8:57 amdrillanwr,
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December 13th, 2007 at 8:57 amWhen the antibodies in the blood in your body attacks the healthy cells, it makes for one sick nation, I mean person
December 13th, 2007 at 9:56 amHey now. This is the exactly what the American people want. nan said so and we all are wrong if we don’t want two more members of our gov’t thrown into kangaroo court for a show trail over a non-crime. sandy buger walks, Scooter Libby faces 30 years. william jefferson walks, gets reelected after a 100,000 dollar bribe and Alberto Gonzalez is forced out of a job. And now, no crime or even anything inappropriate comes out of the release of 9 underperforming US attny’s.
If these idiot libs have their way we’re all f’ed. What non law are we breaking for posting anti-nan statements on the internet? How long before a non law dispensing lib justice shuts down everyone that doesn’t agree with 55% taxes, an economy ground to a halt, an emaciated Military and jihadis attacking at will in the USA?
December 13th, 2007 at 12:24 pm