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Congress can hold hearings, they can issue subpoenas, and they can hold someone in contempt of Congress. There is currently no case. Congress is simply holding
by zrail 10y ago
Congress can hold hearings, they can issue subpoenas, and they can hold someone in contempt of Congress.
There is currently no case. Congress is simply holding a hearing to roast the guy for making some stupid decisions. If information comes to light that would indicate criminal wrongdoing of a private citizen or a non-elected member of the government during a Congressional hearing the justice department takes over. For elected officials Congress (specifically the Senate) has the option of initiating an impeachment trial.
- dalke 10y agoThey can also change the laws.
- zrail 10y agoTrue, but that takes a heck of a lot more effort than berating a CEO for 30 minutes straight.
- dalke 10y agoThen it's a good thing they did more than that. Even that meeting, titled "An Examination of Wells Fargo’s Unauthorized Accounts and the Regulatory Response", was more than three hours long, and with three other witnesses. Why, it's as if it were part of a larger effort to change the laws.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> For elected officials Congress (specifically the Senate) has the option of initiating an impeachment trial. No, it doesn't. (Impeachment trials in the Senate are neither restricted to elected officials nor do they extend to all elected officials, and in any case the Senate does not have the "option" to initiate such a trial, an impeachment trial happens only after impeachment by the House of Representatives.)