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June 4, 2019

House Prepares for Contempt Votes on AG Barr, Wilbur Ross & Don McGahn over Census & Mueller Report
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In more news from the Capitol, the House Oversight Committee said they
will vote on holding Attorney General William Barr and Commerce
Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for failing to comply with
congressional subpoenas relating to the citizenship question on the 2020
census. House Oversight Chair Elijah Cummings said in letters to Barr
and Ross on Monday that he is giving them until Thursday before
scheduling the vote. Last week, The New York Times broke a story about a
now-dead senior Republican strategist who specialized in gerrymandering
and was secretly behind the Trump administration's efforts to add a
citizenship question to the 2020 census.

Meanwhile, House lawmakers are set to vote next Tuesday on whether to
hold Attorney General Barr in contempt over his refusal to provide
Congress with Robert Mueller's unredacted report and its underlying
materials. They will also hold a contempt vote for former White House
counsel Donald Mc Gahn after he refused to provide documents and
testimony related to the Mueller inquiry and possible obstruction of
justice by the president.


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