If Eric Holder continues to defy Congress, finding him in contempt wouldn’t be enough for Louie Gohmert. Holder’s department should have its funding cut off, says the tea-party congressman from Texas.
“I think that if the Congress — the House of Representatives — were to find that he was evasive, refused to comply with the subpoena, if he doesn’t appear voluntarily,” the Republican representative told Fox News over the weekend, “then I think two subpoenas that were ignored would be time to not only find him in contempt, but to defund a Justice Department until we get justice.”
The House Judiciary Committee, on which Gohmert serves, sent a letter to Holder last week asking the attorney general to appear before the committee to answer questions regarding whether he lied under oath about investigating reporters. The committee’s leadership has threatened to subpoena Holder if he refuses to testify.
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