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News Wrap: House Democrats move closer to holding Barr, Ross in contempt

U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr describes the Trump administration's effort to gain citizenship data during the 2020 census as Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross stands at his side during an event with the president in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, on July 11, 2019. Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters

WATCH: House votes to hold Barr and Ross in contempt

The House voted, 230-198, on Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt. The vote is largely symbolic because the Justice Department is unlikely to prosecute them.

By Associated Press

A protester holds a sign outside the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that President Donald Trump's administration did not give an adequate explanation for its plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census on June 27, 2019. Photo by REUTERS/Carlos Barria

The Supreme Court blocked a citizenship question from the census. Now what?

Though the court has stopped the citizenship question from being added to the 2020 Census, it does not mean definitively that the question cannot appear on the forms.

By Yasmeen Alamiri, Daniel Bush

WATCH: House oversight panel votes in favor of contempt vote for Barr, Ross

The Democratic-controlled House Oversight Committee voted 24-15 to advance contempt measures against Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. The vote sends the measures to the full House.

House Oversight and Reform Committee chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) confers with Ranking Member Rep Mark Meadows (R-NC) during a debate on the possibility of issuing a subpoena to a former White House security clearance chief on whistleblower allegations that career officials' decisions to deny security clearances to Donald Trump advisors were inappropriately reversed by Trump administration supervisors, as the committee meets on Capitol Hill in Washington, on April 2, 2019. Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters

House panel to vote on holding William Barr and Wilbur Ross in contempt

The contempt of Congress vote comes after the attorney general and commerce secretary failed to comply with subpoenas for documents related to the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

Why census experts fear a citizenship question would jeopardize results

Counting the roughly 327 million people currently living in the U.S. is a massive effort. And this year, before the next census moves forward, the Supreme Court must decide whether the Trump administration should be allowed to add a citizenship…

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WATCH: Democratic lawmakers grill commerce secretary on 2020 census citizenship question

By Kevin Freking, Associated Press

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up a challenge to the administration's decision to add a question on citizenship status to the 2020 Census.

Judge says citizenship question on census ‘threatens’ democracy

By Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press

The Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census "threatens the very foundation of our democratic system" because it would cause a significant undercount of immigrants and Latinos that could distort the distribution of congressional seats,…

The court fight over the 2020 census and why it matters

By Marcia Coyle

The justices could decide Friday or early next week whether they will hear the government's appeal.

WATCH: Commerce chief Wilbur Ross asks why furloughed workers are using food banks

By Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, one of the richest people in President Donald Trump's Cabinet, questioned Thursday why furloughed federal workers were using food banks instead of taking out loans to get through the monthlong partial government shutdown.