Issa agrees to postpone Holder contempt vote

Published June 15, 2012 4:00am ET



House Oversight and Government Reform chair Darrell Issa, R-Calif., agreed to postpone the vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if the Justice Department delivers 1,300 pages of documents to his committee before the vote is scheduled to take place.

“While I do have substantial concerns that these documents may not be sufficient to allow the committee to complete its investigation, delivery of these documents to the Committee before the scheduled consideration of contempt vote at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 20, 2012, would be sufficient to justify the postponement of the proceeding to allow for the review of the materials,” Issa wrote in a letter to Holder today. “I am prepared to announce this delay once the Department produces these documents.”

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