Word: subpoenaing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Judiciary Committee finally lost patience last week with the cavalier and inconclusive White House responses to its six-week-old request for presidential tape recordings. Acting with impressive bipartisanship after a tense week of backstage maneuvering, the committee voted, 33 to 3, to subpoena the evidence...
...sense the committee's historic action-it was the first resort by the House to a subpoena for evidence from a President in an impeachment inquiry-was more symbolic than practical. Although the committee was on solid legal ground in issuing the subpoena, it has no effective way to enforce it. If Nixon chooses not to honor it fully, the committee can seek a citation against him from the House for contempt of Congress. While ordinary citizens can be imprisoned for such contempt, the only effective recourse for the House in the case of a President apparently would...
...committee, set Tuesday, April 9, as the firm deadline for a definitive White House response to its Feb. 25 request for 41 tapes, congressional Republicans repeatedly implored Nixon's chief Watergate counsel, James St. Clair, to respond affirmatively and cooperatively. If he did not, they warned, the subpoena could not be avoided...
Rhodes and other Republicans phoned St. Clair to tell him that a subpoena was imminent unless he gave more ground. Rodino, for his part, knew he had a majority in favor of issuing a subpoena. But he did not want the vote to be along party lines. He was also aware of three continuing sources of Republican dissatisfaction with his handling of the committee so far: 1) he had prevented any vote on whether St. Clair should represent the President during committee proceedings; 2) he had similarly postponed any decision on the procedures the committee would follow as evidence...
...banks were required to keep copies of checks of $100 or more for five years; if the Government asked to see specific copies, the individual who wrote the checks would not necessarily be informed, though the bank could resist on its own and force the Government to get a subpoena. The regulations further specified that banks must automatically report to the Internal Revenue Service cash transactions of $10,000 or more. Individuals were also required to report transfers of $5,000 or more into or out of the country...