Gerry Connolly actually said...

When Dan Burton was chairman of the committee he issued hundreds of subpoenas--losing track of who he had subpoenaed.

I happen to believe that Congress ought to revive inherent contempt enforcing subpoenas institutionally as the separate but coequal legislat...

I urge all my colleagues to support Mr. Mfume's amendment, and I yield back.

I think the amendment is not unnecessary. I think it, in fact, improves things.