prudent step forward and will certainly be encouraging our colleagues to take it up. >> wait, that's key. you wouldn't need the senate. when i saw this earlier today, i thought obviously there's not going to be ten republican votes for this in the senate. your theory of the case here is this would be a simple majority vote of a resolution adopting rules codified in the branch of the house itself which derives the power from the u.s. constitution? >> that's precisely right. the implied powers under the constitution that give the house and the senate the ability to use its inherent contempt power to enforce duly authorized congressional subpoenas. really the resolution is codifying a set of procedures, right, that are required and that ultimately would survive constitutional scrutinies as the supreme court has opined on this in the past. look, the evisceration of congressional oversight really is nearing crisis levels. it has for quite some time. so implementing this resolution would put congress back on the path i think of repairing the