contempt of congress

English Thesaurus

1. deliberate obstruction of the operation of the federal legislative branch (noun.act)

hypernym	:	contempt,
definition	:	a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body (noun.act)

domain category	:	jurisprudence, law,
definition	:	the collection of rules imposed by authority (noun.group)