{"id":14130,"date":"2012-05-09T20:16:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T00:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14130"},"modified":"2012-05-09T20:16:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T00:16:55","slug":"house-hits-doj-with-1-million-fine-for-fast-furious-stonewalling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14130\/house-hits-doj-with-1-million-fine-for-fast-furious-stonewalling\/","title":{"rendered":"House Hits DOJ with $1 Million Fine for Fast &#038; Furious Stonewalling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/05\/08\/gowdy-to-doj-give-us-fast-and-furious-docs-or-were-docking-your-pay\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Gowdy<\/a> (R-SC) explains on the House floor why his bill to cut $1 million from the Department of Justice\u2019s appropriation is justified in light of Attorney General Eric Holder\u2019s refusal to hand over documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFor those watching at home, what would happen to them if they ignored a summons for jury duty? What would happen for them if they ignored a grand jury subpoena? What would happen if a committee of Congress demanded documents [from them] and they summarily refused to cooperate?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gowdy said that if any ordinary American citizen obstructed subpoenas the way Holder has, they \u201cwould be sanctioned, fined and probably jailed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>America is a nation of laws, not men.\u00a0 It reflects well on the House of Representatives that Gowdy\u2019s bill passed by voice vote, indicating it had lots of support.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: The Daily Caller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) explains on the House floor why his bill to cut $1 million from the Department of Justice\u2019s appropriation is justified in light of Attorney General Eric Holder\u2019s refusal to hand over documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal: \u201cFor those watching at home, what would happen to them if they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1453,498,2847,185,3531],"class_list":["post-14130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-department-of-justice","tag-eric-holder","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-trey-gowdy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14134,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130\/revisions\/14134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}