1.   Select committees have the power to subpoena witnesses.

2.   As the grand jury, Thim was able to subpoena witnesses.

3.   As proposed by committee Chairman Henry Hyde, an Illinois Republican, the resolution would allow a broad, open-ended investigation while giving Democrats equal authority to subpoena witnesses.

4.   A state district judge in Dallas on Tuesday appointed Shannon as independent prosecutor, which will give him the authority to subpoena witnesses and gather evidence in Dallas County.

5.   Congress has the power to subpoena witnesses, but it does not have the power to prosecute.

6.   Danforth said he has authority to subpoena witnesses, to empanel a grand jury and to question both Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh.

7.   Danforth will have broad authority to collect evidence and subpoena witnesses.

8.   For this purpose, the Republican leadership hopes to change the House rule that permits subpoenaed witnesses to have television cameras barred from the hearing room.

9.   Grand juries also may subpoena witnesses and require them to testify under threat of being jailed.

10.   He said he has authority to subpoena witnesses, to empanel a grand jury and to question both Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh.