6.28.2012

BREAKING NEWS: House votes to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt of Congress

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The GOP-led House voted Thursday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to provide key information pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, making Holder the first sitting Cabinet member to be held in contempt.

The vote was 255 to 67. Seventeen Democrats joined the majority of Republicans in voting yes. GOP Rep. Dan Lipinski voted not present, and 65 Democrats left the floor before the vote.

The vote follows a roughly 16-month investigation by the chamber’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee into the failed gun-running sting known as Fast and Furious -- run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a division of the Justice Department led by Holder.

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Lou Buren of TWAU BLOG: With the recent bad news of the supreme court's bogus ruling on Obamacare, this is a ray of light. With Holder being held in contempt it also brings hope that Obama will be charged with something before it's all said and done.

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