Feb 10, 2016
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved a historic resolution Wednesday, holding the CEO of online classified ad site Backpage.com in contempt of Congress for failing to testify under subpoena last November on the website's role as a prominent vehicle for child sex trafficking.
The full senate will now vote on the resolution. If they approve it, that would allow the Senate’s Legal Counsel to bring a suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Backpage.com CEO Carl Ferrer — an action the Senate hasn't taken in 20 years.
According to Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, who is leading the investigation as chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations with ranking member Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Backpage.com has outright refused to cooperate with the senators, even after the senators subpoenaed the company for documents on the business' operations.
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