Pelosi: House will 'soon' vote on contempt for Barr, Ross over census docs
By Jacqueline Thomsen - 07/08/19 08:33 PM EDT
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday that the House will vote “soon†on a contempt resolution for Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for failing to comply with congressional subpoenas for documents on the proposed addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
“Before the break, the Oversight Committee voted on a bipartisan basis to hold the Attorney General and the Secretary of Commerce in contempt of Congress for defying the Committee’s bipartisan subpoenas for documents that would shed light on the real reason the administration added a citizenship question,†Pelosi wrote in a letter to other House Democrats. “We will be moving forward in the whole House soon.â€
However, the Speaker did not provide details on when that vote will be held, or what kind of contempt resolution lawmakers might be voting on.
The Hill has reached out to Democratic leadership for comment.
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