Cheney: I Would 'Probably Not' Testify
Before Congress, Even If Subpoenaed
Think Progress
November 5, 2006
This morning on ABC, George Stephanopoulos asked Vice President Cheney if he
would testify before Congress if he was subpoenaed. Cheney said "probably not
in the sense at that vice president and president and constitutional officers
don't appear before the Congress."
Stephanopoulos noted that President Gerald Ford testified before
Congress.
Transcript:
STEPHANOPOULOS: You've talked a lot about the consequences of the Democrats
taking over congress in the last week. Nancy Pelosi said this: "we win,
speaking of the democrat, we get subpoena power." If you're subpoenaed by the
Democrats, would you go?
CHENEY: I have no idea that i'm going to be subpoenaed. Obviously, we'd sit
down and look at it at the time. But probably not in the sense at that Vice
President and President and constitutional officers don't appear before the
Congress.
STEPHANOPOULOS: That's your view of executive power? You're not going to go
up and testify.
CHENEY: I think that's been the tradition. I can't remember the last time a
President did appear before the Congress. Or a Vice President.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Gerald Ford, I think.
CHENEY: That's right. But not on a subpoena, he did it on his own.
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