Senate Panel Authorizes Subpoenas: President "Not The Decider"

Washington Post William Branigin March 22, 2007 03:42 PM

The Senate Judiciary Committee today authorized its Democratic chairman to issue subpoenas for top White House officials as part of an investigation into the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, joining its House counterpart in spurning President Bush's offer to make the officials available under strict limitations.

The 19-member committee approved the subpoena authority in a voice vote after more than an hour of debate in which minority Republicans urged the panel's Democratic majority to avoid the prospect of a constitutional confrontation with the White House over executive privilege.

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