After U.S. Attorney General William Barr missed a Monday morning deadline to turn over an unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller III’s report, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee moved ahead with their threat to hold him in contempt of Congress.

Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, said Monday that the committee will meet on Wednesday to vote on holding Barr in contempt. Nadler said Barr’s “failure to comply” left the panel “no choice but to initiate contempt proceedings.”

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