Holder Contempt Vote: How Congress Reacted on Twitter

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted 23-17 along party lines Wednesday afternoon to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.

The charge says Holder withheld documents related to a botched plan to track gun trafficking.

The plan, dubbed Operation Fast and Furious, involved allowing weapons to be sold to known drug traffickers in Mexico with the goal of eventually tracking them to cartel bosses. The operation is largely considered a failure; most of the guns have yet to be recovered, and high-level arrests have not been made.

Fast and Furious became publicly known after guns sold under the program were used in the killing of Brian Terry, a U.S.…
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