Perspective: The House has the power to arrest people who defy its orders
The House Ways and Means Committee, led by Chairman Richard E. Neal , wants to see President Trump's tax returns. By Samuel Erman and Edward Kleinbard May 15 at 6:00 AM The House Ways and Means Committee has subpoenaed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to surrender President Trump’s tax returns to the committee by Friday. The odds are that Mnuchin will ignore the demand, although the law is clear that he must comply.
A Senate committee subpoenaed the attorney general’s brother, Mally Daugherty, to testify and to surrender documents from an Ohio bank that he controlled — but he refused. At that point, the Senate dispatched the sergeant at arms of the Senate to Cincinnati, where he placed Mally Daugherty under arrest and held him in custody.
This wasn’t the only time during the Harding administration that the Senate played this brand of hardball. In February 1928, when Robert Stewart, chairman of the board of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, refused to answer questions at a hearing, the Senate issued a warrant for his detention until he agreed to testify. The deputy sergeant at arms executed the warrant that same night, holding Stewart overnight in custody in a room in the Willard Hotel.
But in the last quarter-century, Congress has systematically undercut its own relevance. As Congress decided to shirk its most important responsibilities, ranging from war powers to passing timely budgets, Congress gradually lost the respect of the executive branch.
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