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Q: Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) says the House will move forward with a contempt of Congress vote against Attorney General Eric Holder over the botched gun-tracking operation known as Fast and Furious. 
  
 The Ohio Republican told reporters Wednesday that last-minute talks with the White House about releasing documents had failed to avert the vote. President Barack Obama has asserted executive privilege to keep the documents secret, but Republicans say there's no basis for that. 
  
 The issue has political implications this election year. The National Rifle Association is keeping score, prompting some Democrats to join Republicans in voting for contempt. Such a citation would not cause the release of more documents on the operation, in which guns were allowed to "walk" from Arizona to Mexico in hopes they could be tracked. ||||| 3 years ago 
  
 Washington (CNN) - An offer from the Obama administration to show Congressional investigators some documents related to the failed "Fast and Furious" sting operation was rejected Tuesday, sources from both sides say. 
  
 The last-ditch offer was a joint effort between the Justice Department and the White House and made to senior aides to House Speaker John Boehner and Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa. 
  
  
  
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 According to a summary of the offer provided by a senior administration official and a Justice Department official familiar with the discussions, the Justice Department outlined an offer that included giving Congress access to some of the documents generated between February 4, 2011, when the DOJ initially told Congress there was no inappropriate activity, and December 2, 2011, when Justice acknowledged the program was "fundamentally flawed." 
  
 "We reached out and showed them a representative sample of the documents so they could see first-hand the types of communications in contention," the administration official said. President Barack Obama has asserted executive privilege in the dispute. 
  
 The DOJ also offered to conduct a briefing, give Congress documents related to the whistleblowers, and work with the committee to respond to any questions they had after reviewing the materials. According to a summary of the offer Justice maintained this would have given Congress "unprecedented access to deliberative documents." 
  
 The Administration official said the documents would "dispel any notion of an intent to mislead Congress." 
  
 One senior House GOP aide confirmed the Justice Department made the offer to senior Republican staff, but said it wasn't sufficient. GOP leaders plan to move forward with a House vote slated for Thursday to hold Holder in contempt of Congress. 
  
 White House spokesman Eric Schultz told CNN, "This was a good faith effort to try to reach an accommodation while still protecting the institutional prerogatives of the Executive Branch, often championed by these same Republicans criticizing us right now. Unfortunately Republicans have opted for political theater rather than conduct legitimate Congressional oversight." 
  
 - Check out the CNN Electoral Map and Calculator and game out your own strategy for November. ||||| Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah) on Tuesday became one of the first Democrats to publicly declare he will vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, breaking from his party on what is expected to be a mostly party-line vote Thursday. 
  
 “Utahns expect and deserve transparency and accountability from government officials, especially when a tragedy such as the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent occurs. It just compounds the tragedy when both sides play politics instead of releasing the facts,” he said in a statement, adding: “Sadly, it seems that it will take holding the Attorney General in contempt to communicate that evasiveness is unacceptable. It is a vote I will support.” 
  
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 It’s not clear yet how many Democrats will defect from their party and support the contempt resolution, which comes as the White House and Republicans in Congress have engaged in an increasingly tense clash over the Fast and Furious “gun walking” scandal. 
  
 (Also on POLITICO: Issa predicts bipartisan support on contempt vote) 
  
 “Given the stonewalling by the Department of Justice, this should not be a partisan issue,” Michael Steel, spokesperson for Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), said in a statement to POLITICO regarding Matheson’s announcement. 
  
 Matheson was one of 31 Democratic lawmakers to sign a June 3, 2011 letter to President Barack Obama “to express serious concerns about the Administration’s response to investigations” into the Fast and Furious operation. 
  
 Spokesmen for 28 of the letter’s signatories declined to comment, did not return requests for comment or said their boss has yet to take a position on the issue. 
  
 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that some Democratic votes may be influenced by the National Rifle Association, which weighed in against Holder last week and said it would use the vote on its influential scorecard. 
  
 “I think there are some members who will consider the recommendations of the NRA,” Hoyer said. “Whether they think those recommendations are founded or not, I don’t know at this point in time.” 
  
 Matheson spokesperson Alyson Heyrend wouldn’t comment on whether the NRA position influenced Matheson. 
  
 The vote in the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — which cleared the contempt resolution for consideration by the full House — was split along party lines. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), the only Democrat on the committee to have signed the letter, will vote against contempt again on Thursday, according to a spokesperson. 
  
 The 31 Democratic representatives who signed the June letter are: Arkansas Rep. Mike Ross; California Reps. Joe Baca, Dennis Cardoza and Jim Costa; Georgia Reps. Sanford Bishop and John Barrow; Illinois Rep. Jerry Costello; Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly; Iowa Rep. Leonard Boswell; Kentucky Rep. Ben Chandler; Minnesota Reps. Collin Peterson and Tim Walz; New Mexico Reps. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan; New York Rep. Bill Owens; North Carolina Reps. Larry Kissell , Heath Shuler and Mike McIntyre; Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan; Oklahoma Rep. Dan Boren; Oregon Reps. Peter DeFazio and Kurt Schrader; Pennsylvania Reps. Jason Altmire, Tim Holden and Mark Critz; Tennessee Rep. Jim Cooper; Texas Gene Green; Utah Rep. Jim Matheson; Maine Rep. Mike Michaud; West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall; Wisconsin Rep. Ron Kind. 
  
 CORRECTION: A previous version of this post misidentified John Boehner’s party. |||||
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The White House's last-ditch effort to avoid a contempt of Congress vote against Eric Holder has failed and John Boehner says the House will move forward with the vote, the AP reports. The Obama administration had offered to show congressional investigators some of the documents related to Fast and Furious, the ATF's failed gun-walking operation, CNN adds. The National Rifle Association is paying close attention to the vote, leading some Democrats—concerned for their prospects in an election year—to cross to the Republican side and vote for contempt. One of the first Democrats to come forward publicly with his plan to do so is Utah's Jim Matheson, Politico reports. "Utahns expect and deserve transparency and accountability from government officials, especially when a tragedy such as the death of a US Border Patrol agent occurs," he says in a statement. He and 30 other Democratic lawmakers signed a letter to President Obama this month expressing "serious concerns about the Administration's response" to the Fast and Furious investigation. Tomorrow's vote is expected to go mostly along party lines, and it is not yet clear how many Democrats will defect.