On the recordApril 24, 2019
I believe that is -- that is one potential option. I hope it doesn't come to that. We haven't done it since the 1870s, apparently, but that is a latent power of Congress.
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transcripts.cnn.comGerry Connolly: “I believe that is -- that is one potential option. I hope it doesn't come to that. We haven't done it since the 1870s…”
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Connolly mentions the possibility of incarcerating someone who fails to comply with a subpoena.
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