White House Counsel Kathryn H. Ruemmler shot back at House Energy & Commerce Republicans Friday, characterizing a subpoena the committee had approved along party lines Thursday as an “unreasonable burden on the President’s ability to meet his constitutional duties.”Ruemmler didn’t invoke executive privilege, but chastised the Republican leaders of the House Energy & Committee and subcommittee for blowing her off and ploughing ahead with the subpoena that demands any and all documents relating to Solyndra (as opposed to specific documents that relate to oversight of the loan guarantee and communications between the White House and the Department of Energy.)
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