[StAnDeliver]

How is it that the four Republicans on the Personnel Committee -- House Minority Leader George Edwards, State Rep. Jean Cryor, Senate Minority Leader J. Lowell Stoltzfus, State Sen. John Hafter -- do not have subpoena powers of their own?

[nunya bidness]

It's my understanding that the Majority Power on the Committee control subpoena power. Hence, the need to make a stink so the Democrats toss Ryan O'Doherty under a bus.

The governor's press secretary just said on WBAL radio that he wants to continue to pressure the Committee to subpoena FR for proof of a connection between Ryan O'Doherty, MD4Bush, and a Washington Post reporter.

[conservative in nyc]

The Republicans have no subpoena power. When the MD Democrats created the special committee "investigating" Governor Ehrlich's alleged illegal firing of Democrat political hacks, I think they required a majority vote to issue a subpoena. The Republicans are in the minority. So they can't subpoena anyone on their own.