Stan Quoted in Politico re: Contempt History

“Every 20 years or so, history repeats itself in this town,” Stanley Brand, a Washington attorney who played a key role in the 1982 battle as the House general counsel, said in an interview.

At the time, Anne Gorsuch Burford, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, refused to turn over documents to the oversight subcommittee of the House Public Works Committee, saying they were “enforcement sensitive.”

Both the subcommittee and the parent committee voted criminal contempt charges against her, and the full House backed them up, 259-105.

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