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This resolution finds Attorney General William P. Barr and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with certain subpoenas authorized and issued by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform relating to the 2020 census. The resolution states that Mr. Barr and Mr. Ross failed to produce documents in compliance with subpoenas issued on April 2, 2019. The resolution also states that Mr. Barr ordered a Department of Justice employee, John Gore, not to comply with an April 11, 2019, subpoena requiring Mr. Gore to appear for deposition testimony before the committee.
The House of Representatives must certify to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia a committee report detailing the failure to comply with the subpoenas.
The resolution requires the House and committee to take additional action to enforce the subpoenas.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.Res. 497 as introduced in House on Jul 17, 2019. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Jul 17, 2019
Recommending that the House of Representatives find William P. Barr, Attorney General of the United States, and Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., Secretary of Commerce, In Contempt of Congress for Refusal to Comply with Subpoenas Duly Issued by the Committee on Oversight and Reform
Passed
230 Yea 198 Nay 4 not voting
Party-line vote 5 of 428 voting members broke with their own party: 4 Democrats, 1 Republican.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
432 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Organizations that named H.Res. 497 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
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