The House Oversight Committee says it plans to vote on holding Attorney General Barr and Commerce Secretary Ross in contempt for refusing to comply with requests for information about the Census
The House Oversight Committee plans to move ahead on holding Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with their requests for information into a probe about how a question about citizenship ended up on the US Census.
In letters to Barr and Ross, House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings wrote,"Unfortunately your actions are part of a pattern. The Trump administration has been engaged in one of the most unprecedented cover-ups since Watergate, extending from the White House to multiple federal agencies and department of the government and across numerous investigations.
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