WASHINGTON — A House committee moved forward with its threat to charge Attorney General Eric Holder with contempt of Congress yesterday, despite a last-minute bid by President Obama to invoke executive privilege to keep documents secret in the “Fast and Furious” gun-running probe.

Voting along party lines, Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted for the contempt charge by 23-17, sending the battle with the Obama administration to a full House

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