{"id":6341,"date":"2025-02-20T08:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T08:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-question-giving-cruz-broad-subpoena-power-at-senate-commerce\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T08:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T08:20:39","slug":"republicans-question-giving-cruz-broad-subpoena-power-at-senate-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-question-giving-cruz-broad-subpoena-power-at-senate-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans question giving Cruz broad subpoena power at Senate Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s bid for broad subpoena power as chair of the Senate Commerce Committee is running into concerns from fellow Republicans who are privately raising questions about permitting the move. After weighing the decision for nearly a month, GOP members of Senate Commerce met last week to discuss whether to give Cruz the unilateral subpoena authority&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/19\/congress\/cruzs-senate-commerce-committee-still-weighing-subpoena-authority-ahead-of-deadline-00204946\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s bid for broad subpoena power as chair of the Senate Commerce Committee is running into concerns from fellow Republicans who are privately raising questions about permitting the move. After weighing the decision for nearly a month, GOP members of Senate Commerce met last week to discuss whether to give Cruz the unilateral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}