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Adam Schiff: “If the President is allowed to decide which subpoenas they will deign to consider valid and which they will deign to…”

On the recordJanuary 29, 2020
If the President is allowed to decide which subpoenas they will deign to consider valid and which they will deign to consider invalid, your oversight power, our oversight power is gone.
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Adam Schiff
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Schiff warns that allowing the President to selectively respond to subpoenas would destroy congressional oversight.

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