House Schedules Contempt Vote for Eric Holder

A House committee looking into the flawed gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious will consider holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress next week for failing to produce some documents the panel is seeking, officials announced today. The committee has scheduled a contempt vote for June 20. To date, the Justice Department has produced 7,600 pages of documents for the committee.

"The Justice Department is out of excuses," John Boehner charged today. House oversight chair Darrell Issa said Congress has an obligation "to investigate unanswered questions about attempts to smear whistleblowers, failures by Justice Department officials to be truthful and candid with the congressional investigation and the reasons for the significant delay in acknowledging reckless conduct in Operation Fast and Furious." (More Fast and Furious stories.)