BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Let's start this morning with more fallout surrounding the case of young Elian Gonzalez. There is movement from Miami up to Washington. Let's start in Washington with CNN's Bob Franken for the front on this story. Bob, what's happening?</s>BOB FRANKEN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Bill, what they're trying to do is to stop the movement up here. Several members of the Florida Republican congressional delegation, Ileana Ros- Lehtinen, Representative Lincoln Diaz-Ballard, Senator Connie Mack, all of them have gone to Senator -- to Congressman Dan Burton whose committee, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, has unique power to issue subpoenas in a circumstance like this. Now, what they want Congressman Burton to do is to issue a subpoena for the appearance of the young man, which would, by tradition, stop him from leaving the United States. At least that would be their tactical reason. Why do they want to do this? Well, it's a stalling action. What they want to do is to come up with legislation that they will submit, when Congress comes back in a couple of weeks, legislation which would grant either citizenship or permanent residence status to the young man, and therefore, they hope, would stop his removal from the U.S. All of this, of course, is an effort that is just developing. Republican leaders are starting to support what it is they're doing. As for Congressman Burton and his committee, they don't know what to do. They're not quite sure all of this is quite legal. Part of the complication is that the congressman, Burton, had some eye surgery and was unreachable yesterday, so they haven't been able to discuss it with him yet. The lawyers are behind closed doors on the committee trying to decide exactly what the possibilities are. But there is an effort to try and finesse this, to try and buy some time, and Congress would be right in the middle of it -- Bill.</s>HEMMER: Bob Franken from Capitol Hill. Bob, thank you.
Members of Florida Republican Congressional Delegation Seek House Intervention in Elian Gonzalez Case