FULL WEIGHT OF THE HOUSE VS ARM

Hmmm…so WHAT does/can the "ARM" do…exactly you might ask. Quite a bit, it seems.

Here's some highlights from 2007 NYT article when the House was trying to get some witnesses to testify:

(https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/opinion/04tue4.html)

"If the Justice Department refuses to enforce the subpoenas, as seems likely, Congress will have to decide whether to do so.

Washington lawyers are dusting off an old but apparently sturdy doctrine called “inherent contempt” that gives Congress the power to bring the recalcitrant witnesses in — by force, if necessary.

From the Republic’s earliest days, Congress has had the right to hold recalcitrant witnesses in contempt — and even imprison them — all by itself. In 1795, shortly after the Constitution was ratified, the House ordered its sergeant at arms to arrest and detain two men accused of trying to bribe members of Congress. The House held a trial and convicted one of them.

It explained how they work: “The individual is brought before the House or Senate ____by the sergeant at arms''', tried at the bar of the body, and can be imprisoned in the Capitol jail.”

WONDER WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE SERGEANT AT ARMS WAS ORDERED TO BRING….LET'S SAY RR "FRONT AND CENTER", AND DECIDED NOT TO DO IT?

Let's say because his PRIOR BOSS wouldn't exactly like that??

HMMM….

Paul D. Irving

2012 – Sworn in as the ARM

1980 – Started his career as an FBI agent in LA

During his 25-year-long career with the Secret Service, he served as a supervisory agent in the Presidential Protection Division, as Deputy Assistant Director for Congressional Affairs

In 2003, he was assigned to the Executive Office of the President at the White House during the Secret Service's transition to the United States Department of Homeland Security

Theory: NUNES ORDERS SUBPOENAS ON DOJ (RR)…RYAN BRINGS TO FULL HOUSE VOTE….ARM IS FORCED TO COMPLY AND ARREST RR.