House votes to hold Barr, Ross in criminal contempt over census question

“I do not take this decision lightly,” Oversight chairman Elijah Cummings said on the House floor before the vote.

“Holding any secretary in criminal contempt of Congress is a serious and sober matter, one that I have done everything in my power to avoid. But in the case of the Attorney General and the secretary, Secretary Ross, they blatantly obstructed our ability to do congressional oversight into the real reason Secretary Ross was trying for the first time in 70 years, in 70 years to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.”

Thegatewaypundit.com reports: The contempt resolution passed in a 230-198 vote on party line.

Attorney General Bill Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross wrote House Speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier Wednesday urging her to cancel an imminent vote to hold them in contempt of Congress.

 The Democrat-led House Oversight Committee previously issued Barr and Ross a subpoena for documents related to the citizenship question on the 2020 census.

 Both Barr and Ross defied the congressional subpoena, however they turned over thousands of documents to the Committee and the Democrats still moved to hold them in contempt.

President Trump backed down from adding the citizenship question to the census, and Barr and Ross cooperated with the Committee.

 Wilbur Ross said in a statement Wednesday that the House Democrats don’t even want a productive relationship with the Trump administration.

“Today’s PR stunt further demonstrates their unending quest to generate headlines instead of operating in good faith with our Department,” Ross said. “Preferring to play political games rather than help lead the country, they have made every attempt to ascribe evil motivations to everyday functions of government.”

 In another statement, DOJ spox Kerri Kupec called the vote “a new low for Speaker Pelosi’s House of Representatives.”

“The Department of Justice has worked for months to supply thousands of documents to accommodate Congress’s requests,” Kupec said. “Additionally, many documents at issue with this particular vote have been held privileged by a federal court. …This vote is nothing more than a political stunt.”

 The Democrats previously held Bill Barr in contempt for not violating federal law and now they just voted to hold him in contempt for cooperating with the House Oversight Committee.

 The contempt resolution will be sent to the US Attorney’s office in DC however it is highly unlikely that any further action will be taken since Bill Barr oversees the office. Four Democrats and all Republicans voted against the resolution.

https://newspunch.com/house-votes-barr-ross-criminal-contempt-censu...

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  • The Democrat party (and some Republicans) are using the Bolshevik Communist Manifesto to start a revolutionary civil war.
    Yes, there ARE several thousand more than only those in Congress, (Both sides of the isle).
    Make no mistake about it people, this IS a real WAR. Don't allow the "peaceful" - non-use of guns yet - to lull you to sleep.

    This has been coming for a long time. In fact it started back in 1900's. With the election of Barack Hussein Obama these Communists and "New-World-Order" tyrants thought they finally had it all done, the USA would finally be taken down.
    Only something went wrong in the 2016 elections; The successor to Obama LOST. Hillary Clinton LOST.
    Trump WON the 2016 election in spite of everything they thought they had "fixed".
    WTF !! ???? What happened???
    The American people finally managed to wake up, just in time, and in just enough numbers to stop Hillary Clinton from finishing off Obama's "Fundamental Transformation of America".

    But don't worry - That's not enough to stop the Communist take over and destruction of America. That's not enough to stop them at all, not even close. Trump and his administration is just a little speed bump. No big deal, they'll just destroy him. Politically and financially, and in every other way that becomes necessary. Including assassination if necessary.

    And hopefully (if they can manage too) they will actually start that civil war they want so badly.

    So our choices are "damned if we do and damned if we don't."
    We are Americans. And we have faced similar circumstances and situations before. Maybe not quite like this and not in any recent past that anyone alive today can remember, but as Americans we have faced dire situations before. And Americans NEVER give up; - - - NEVER.

    If (and when) given a choice between stand still and be killed or stand up and fight, Americans have always chosen to fight until the end.

    And THAT is precisely what I intend to do.

    "Sir - They have us surrounded again - those poor bastards"

    • Sic Semper Tyrannus.

  • I believe we American patriots are making a huge mistake waiting on the Tyrants/ Socialists/ Communists/ Muslims/ Et. Al. next move to complete the destruction of America. I believe "strike them before they do anymore damage" is the best course of action. How to do that is the big question.

    • I agree Lee, Questions is how , when & where

      Where the F___ is that #44??

  •  My take on the Squad, and this new bunch of Democrats that currently are running against Trump:
    I think these people are great - fantastic, and just what America needs right now.
    Now before you start shooting at me - finish reading this.
    These four crazy women known as "The Squad" around Washington circles, and the entire new list of Democrat presidential contenders have finally taken the mask off the Democrat party. Finally they are saying just who and what the Democrat/Communist party has been trying to hide for 70+ years.
    These people are Socialist/Communist activists, and ever damn one of them HATE America and everything America stand for.

    We no longer have to try to educate America about who these people really are - they are doing that for us.
    We no longer have to try to explain what these people want America to be - They are now doing that for us.
    Older Democrats like Joe Biden, who has been in Washington for 40 years, and has continually tried to hide what he really believes, is now being pushed aside, not because he's not Communist/ Socialist enough, but because he doesn't understand how they think they can win by exposing themselves like they are. Biden would prefer to continue with the charade that has kept him in Washington for so may years. But these women and the new list of presidential hopefuls are having no part in continuing that charade, they want the masks OFF. And just like Obama, they think the American people are too stupid to figure out just what the hell their policies and direction would lead us too if any of them managed to succeed. Their own words describe and explain exactly what they want for America and for the American people. Just look at Cuba and Venezuela. These same kinds of people have turned these two once prosperous countries into pure hell-holes for their own people. And THAT is what these Democrats including the four Squad-ladies would like to do to America.
    Should we shoot them? Hell NO, no way. Sun Zu says never interrupt the enemy when he is making a big mistake. It's too much fun watching them destroy the Democrat party. They are doing a better job at that than Trump and the rest of us could ever do.

    Now Al Green, Shelia Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, and a whole list of the other long-time, older traitors that have been there for many years, and including that jerk Jerrold Nadler, (and don't forget Berry himself) now they are a different story. Don't forget the Communists in the Left-wing news media either.

    Just to make sure people understand me, this is just MY Personal Opinion, MY freedom of Speech and I am NOT asking anyone to go out there and start shooting Democrats and politicians.
    Even though I have sworn an oath of service to do so myself.

    • What might be the best idea would be to get DHS or the National Guard to take out ANTIFA.

      And then put Obama in GITMO.

  • Where Tiffany? Where?
    You make all these claims and then you say "some of the blogs can not be shared here",
    Your claims are hollow and mean nothing but simply more babble if you are unable or unwilling to back up what you say. And frankly I really don't give a damn about what the rest of these "Blogs" are saying anyway.
    Plus; Those statements surrounding "the tyranny of the majority", That is either a typo or an attempt to reverse a quote, and the title of a book published by Ms. Lani Guinier. I believe she was a former contender for a seat on the Supreme Court. The name of that book was "The Tyranny of the MINORITY" NOT the Majority. She was either a contender for a seat or she testified in the Senate hearings when the Democrats destroyed the character of good black judge.

    What is interesting is that she does appear to have a book published by the title "The tyranny of the Majority" according to Amazon books.
    https://www.amazon.com/Lani-Guinier/e/B000APE8AS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_ln...

    She was a professor at Harvard Law School and also at University of Pennsylvania Law School.
    A short biography on her is included on the Amazon book page.

    My point to this is WHO THE HELL GIVES A DAMN?
    I really don't care one lick about what all the left-wing blogs or what ever they are have to say about much of anything. I'm not here to try to get along with or appease anyone other than myself, and possibly a few of our long time members.

    Go post your junk on one of your own blogs that you are afraid to name.
    I'm sick of the ANTI-American - ANTI-Jew Bull shit.

    Lani Guinier
    Follow Lani Guinier and explore their bibliography from Amazon.com's Lani Guinier Author Page.
    • This may one of the books you are referring to:
      Tyranny of The Minority", By Benjamin Bishin.
      https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Minority-Subconstituency-Politics-Re...

      And another by Ed Brodow:
      Tyranny of the Minority; How the Left is destroying America"
      "We are engaged in an ideological war for the future of America. The Left, led by radical minority interests, is bent on destroying what remains of American values after eight years of Obama. TYRANNY OF THE MINORITY exposes the Left's campaign to take America down:"
      https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Minority-Left-Destroying-America/dp/...

      Now THAT one (at least the title) I could agree with.

      Here's a title that matches your comments"
      Against The Tyranny of The Majority, - The Father of Liberalism"
      https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2018/08/04/against-the-tyra...

      Tyranny of the Minority: The Subconstituency Politics Theory of Representation: Bishin, Benjamin: 9…
      Tyranny of the Minority: The Subconstituency Politics Theory of Representation [Bishin, Benjamin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers…
      • ALL of this Bull-Shit Tiffany is a glaring example of precisely why DEMOCRACY DOES NOT WORK.
        Democracy is three wolves and a lamb voting over what's for diner.
        THAT is Precisely why OUR Founding Fathers did NOT elect to make America a Democracy
        AMERICA IS NOT A DEMOCRACY.
        THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.

        THAT is why we are here trying to restore our Constitution, so that we can return America to that rightful position of being a Constitutional Republic.

        • Old Rooster, I'm tired of these two, not adding anything of substance but stirring a pot of shit that need not be stirred. The comment below by this Hank Jordan I find troubling, "When you find a way to restore the Constitutional Republic, I will view the blog." Well I suggest you, "Hank Jordan" (if that is who you really are) just go the fuck away NOW, you're not interested in restoring the Constitutional Republic, you're a whackjob loose cannon like Mrs. Tif Morgan, in my personal opinion.

          I'll be back when these two trouble-makers are gone. (You have my email address...)

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