House votes to hold AG Barr and Commerce chief Ross in criminal contempt over census
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Wilbur Ross derided the effort as nothing but “political theater” and “silly.”
The House voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt of Congress for obstructing a probe into the administration’s failed bid to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
The criminal contempt resolution passed by a vote of 230-198. It passed along party lines — no Republicans voted in favor. Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, now an independent after leaving the GOP earlier this month, voted in favor of the move. Four Democrats voted against it.White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham blasted the vote as “ridiculous and yet another lawless attempt to harass the President and his Administration.
“House Democrats know they have no legal right to these documents, but their shameful and cynical politics know no bounds,” she said in a statement.
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