
Conyers gives Bush Administration "one more time" to respond to subpoenas for Bolten and Miers
The Chair of the House Judiciary Committee is preparing a contempt citation against Josh Bolten and Harriet Miers. He's also giving the Bush administration one last chance to comply reports The Hill:
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) is giving the White House one last chance to comply with subpoenas for documents and testimony from Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers.
“I have written to you on eight previous occasions attempting to reach agreement on this matter,” Conyers wrote in a letter Monday to White House Counsel Fred Fielding. He said he was seeking to resolve the conflict one last time even as he filed a contempt citation with the House.
“As we submit the committee’s contempt report to the full House, I am writing one more time to seek to resolve this issue on a cooperative basis,” wrote Conyers. He asked Fielding to respond by Nov. 9.
The move does not mean the House will ever vote on the contempt citation, but it gives Democratic leaders the option to bring the resolution up if and when they decide to vote on it. Conyers planned to file the citation with the House clerk Monday at 2 p.m.

