There needs to be accountability.
If you are called to testify before Congress, and you don’t even show up, charge them with contempt of Congress. You can’t just throw up your hands and let it go.
They can come when subpoenaed, and refuse to answer. That’s their right. That’s reasonably in the realm of normalcy.
Complete disregard and refusal to appear just should not be tolerated. Period.
from what I’ve been reading, it doesn’t look like even past the charge of contempt of Congress, and a conviction, that they can be sent to imprisonment. There isn’t , after all , a specific “congressional” jail, and they wouldn’t be sent to a federal jail… because this is congressional, not federal. I suppose they can sequester them in a room in Congress until they come to their senses, but who needs that circus.
But it needs to be on the record somewhere that they were held in contempt of Congress. You cannot just disregard this.
I find this more infuriating every damn day.