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Explainer: How hard-hitting are U.S. Congress subpoenas, contempt citations?

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Explainer: How hard-hitting are U.S. Congress subpoenas, contempt citations?Congress has significant, if time-consuming, powers to demand witnesses and documents. One of these is the contempt citation. Democrats in the House of Representatives are threatening to use it on multiple fronts, including against Barr for ignoring a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee seeking an unredacted version of the Mueller report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and President Donald Trump.