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'Growing consensus' for contempt of Congress in response to DOJ's failure to comply with subpoena

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Rep. Mark Meadows, a top conservative from North Carolina, said Saturday there is a "growing consensus" among his colleagues to use the contempt of Congress statute amid frustration with the Justice Department's failure to comply with a subpoena and hand over 1.2 million documents related to three investigations.

"But it's not enough to stop there," the Republican added during an interview on Fox News hours after President Trump vented about the matter on Twitter, accusing his Justice Department of "slow walking" after missing the deadline on Thursday.

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., sent the subpoena to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein more than two weeks ago, after the agency failed to respond to a request for the documents from Goodlatte and House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., issued four months earlier. The documents they seek relate to the agency’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server, potential abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the firing of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe last month.


"Here are the next two things you have to do," Meadows told Fox News's Judge Jeanine Pirro. "We have given a short deadline. I've given a deadline of this week. We need to see the documents."
 
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