GOP Push To Fine Merrick Garland $10,000 A Day Over Biden Audio Fails
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who pushed for the penalty, said she would try again when Congress returns.
Some Republicans’ effort to punish Attorney General Merrick Garland for withholding audio of an interview with President Joe Biden failed Thursday — but its sponsor pledged to try again.
On a surprise 204-210 vote Thursday, the House scuttled a resolution by right-wing firebrand Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) that would have found Garland in contempt of Congress and fined him $10,000 a day until he turned over the audio of Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur’s office.
During Hur’s interview, conducted as part of the investigation of confidential documents Biden held onto after his term as vice president, Biden asks for confirmation of the year in which his son Beau died. Congress already has the transcript of the interview and has been told it is accurate, but House Republicans have insisted on obtaining the original the audio as well — a demand Democrats say is only meant to embarrass Biden, who faces questions over his health.
The outcome of Thursday’s vote was surprising because Luna’s proposal had survived two test votes in the House on Wednesday night, after presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump boosted it in a social media post. In Thursday’s vote, four Republicans crossed over to vote against it.
Luna attributed her measure’s failure to some GOP members’ absence due to “family emergencies,” and said she’d already refiled the resolution so it could be brought to the floor again. The soonest that could happen would be in the week of July 23.
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