congressional members have when they are presented with a microphone and a large stage. i am curious, though what s going to happen now with those congressmen who choetz not to show up and speak to the committee and they didn t respond to subpoenas. you ve got four republican members, including kevin mccarthy and jim jordan, that have been referred to the ethics committee. so how does that play out now? at least those who were interviewed gave the fifth, but those members didn t even show up. yeah. what an incredible cell phone, one more cell phone by republicans. it s getting boring now. the very people who are going to be try to issue subpoenas over the next couple years, the very people running the u.s. house of representatives, are going to be republicans who ignored congressional subpoenas. good luck with getting anybody to respond to your subpoenas over the next two years. also today, the senate is holding a rare early morning session to finish work on a massive spending bill
we ve been pushing for quite some time. it is part of the protecting our democracy act that i introduced. it would allow for the expedited enforcement of congressional subpoenas. you are going to see that some of the subpoenas we have, we ve been working on them for months. they aren t going to be effective before the end of the session. don trump knew that. his allies knew that. they knew they could delay essentially delay justice enough to deny it. we need reforms that will strengthen and speed congressional count ability as well as many other reforms. congressman schiff, it is simone sanders. i want to ask you about the ethics committee referrals that were detailed today in the summary. what is going to happen with those ethics committees referrals? in less than three days, republicans were effectively in charge of the ethics committee i have to wonder if any of those republicans will name those accountable. it s a good question, here we were wrestling with the proper remedy
congressional subpoenas. you re going to see that, you know, some of the subpoenas we have outstanding and working on for months, you know, aren t going to be effective before the end of this session. donald trump knew that. his allies knew that. they knew they could delay and essentially delay justice enough to deny it. we need reforms that will strengthen and speed congressional accountability as well as many other reforms. congressman schiff, it is simone sanders townsend. the ethics committee referrals that were detailed today in the summary. what is going to happen with those ethics committee referrals in less than 16 days, republicans will be in the majority in the house of representatives effectively in charge of the ethnics committee and have to wonder if they of nose republicans will hold kevin mccarthy or jim jordan or others named accountable?
recommendation of ours, that really wasn t the problem on january 6th. you know, luckily, the elections in these battleground states really weren t close, the allegations of fraud were completely bogus. this reform is trying to address something that could happen in the next election and that is what if it comes down to a single state and what if ever comes down to interpretation of this old law. we d be much better off if we sent out clearly what s to happen in the joint session. one of the most important reforms is one that we ve been pushing for quite some time, it s part of the protecting our democracy act that i introduced and it would allow for the expedited enforcement of congressional subpoenas. you re going to see that, you know, some of the subpoenas we have outstanding and working on for months, you know, aren t going to be effective before the end of this session. donald trump knew that. his allies knew that. they knew they could delay and essentially delay justice enough
responsible for this. there are several other people that were responsible for what happened on january 6th that promoted what happened on january 6th that not only have defied congressional subpoenas but, as you point out, are actually some of the members that are going to be running the republican house of representatives. here we have, if you think the people that were responsible for the insurrection of january 6th are enemies of the united states constitution, those are the very deep that are going to be running the house of representatives. where does that put us? i mean, it s the craziest thing, joe. like we ll say again, this is a symbolic measure on the part of the committee, but even as a symbolic measure, the notion that sitting members of the house who defied subpoenas