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<\/a>By Alexander Bolton and Klaus Marre<\/p>\n

The House voted Thursday to hold White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before a panel investigating the firing of several United States attorneys.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the vote, Republicans had walked out in an effort to show that they want to work on a permanent update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) rather than be part of a “partisan fishing expedition,” as House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) put it.<\/p>\n

The contempt vote raises the stakes between the White House and Congress in the battle over the fired U.S. attorneys and could set up a constitutional showdown between the legislative and executive branches.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The matter will now be referred to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n

(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n

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