WATCH: Congressional Black Caucus Leads Democrats In Walk Out Of Attorney General Contempt Vote

House Democrats stormed out of a Congressional vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress today.

Led by members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who originally planned a walk-outyesterday, most Democrats exited the chamber instead of voting to hold the Attorney General in contempt. Both House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) called for the walkout.

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Holder has been the target of Republican fury over ‘Fast and Furious,’ a misguided gun tracking effort initiated by the Bush administration and continued under Pres. Barack Obama in which thousands of guns went missing.

Democrats have criticized the vote for being about politics, not action, since the Republicans’ focus has been on Holder, and not on the gun trading scheme. They feel that Congress should be concentrating on the economy, jobs, and seeking the truth of what happened to the missing guns and a man killed by one.

Holder is the first-ever Attorney General to be charged with contempt by the full Congress.