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Stan, i think that really tells us something. i wonder if you can tell us what the next step in all of this. >> the next step will be the vote in the committee. that will be referred to the full house. assuming the full house approves the vote, it will then be certified by the house, by the speaker to the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia, and that begins a whole 'nother process, which requires the u.s. attorney if he decides to take the case, to put it in front of a grand jury. and then if there is a subsequent indictment, the case will be tried in federal district court in the distr...

Committee. we referred the case to the u.s. attorney. she was tried and acquitted. that's the last example we have. now, there are other cases where there have been convictions, but many a times there are appeals from these cases and the courts of appeals have reversed the convictions on technical constitutional or legal grounds. so it's not a foregone conclusion that this case would end in a conviction. >> so, you actually said when lavel was acquitted that not only was it a setback for the house enforcing subpoenas, they just really needed to arrest people and try them in the well of the hou...