More contempt

Here's my piece:

Moving to revive congressional zeal for holding the Bush administration accountable, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed contempt resolutions on Thursday against two of four White House officials who have refused to comply fully with committee subpoenas related to the U.S. attorneys scandal. The resolutions, targeting White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, passed 12 to 7, with Republicans Charles Grassley of Iowa and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania voting for the measure....

Bolten and Rove now face the possibility of being held in contempt by the full Senate, a process that would require a majority vote and that could touch off a showdown in the courts over the limits of congressional oversight and the validity of President Bush's claims of executive privilege.

Perhaps more significant than today's vote—which comes just over a week before Congress breaks for winter recess, making it likely the measure will not be brought before the full Senate for some time—is that it ends a long hibernation of congressional oversight concerning the White House's obstruction of the investigation into the U.S. attorney firings.

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