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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.
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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