There you go. The Senate Judiciary Committee just voted to authorize the issuance of subpoenas for White House officials. As with the House committee, there’s going to be one last round of negotiations before the committees pull the trigger.
And the two parties have a long way to go in those negotiations. Here, for instance, is Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy’s (D-VT) characterization of the White House’s offer for Karl Rove and other White House officials to testify behind closed doors, not under oath, and without a transcript: “What they are offering is nothing, nothing, nothing.”
Here’s the video:
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