From the Minnesota House Session Daily,
Split vote blocks House fraud panel’s attempt to subpoena U.S. Rep. Omar.
Session Daily reports,
A rarely used legislative tactic will not occur in the final 12 days of this year’s session.
A motion to issue a subpoena to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to produce documentation related to the Feeding Our Future scandal failed to garner enough support Tuesday by the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee.
The vote was 5 to 3 in favor of issuing the subpoena. Under House rules, a least one Democratic vote was needed, and all three refused.
I recall a quote from the 2008 spy film Syriana, in which a main character describes this very dilemma,
Dig six feet, find three bodies. But dig twelve feet, you find forty.
Everyone understands that the Minnesota fraud scandals extend well beyond a few hundred low-level fraudsters from East African ethnicities. But no Democrat in Minnesota is willing to get to the bottom of it, lest the wrong, and less expendable people be implicated.
Truth be told, the lid blew off the case–...
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