FILE - In this May 1, 2019, file photo, Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Barr is defending his short summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on his Russia investigation. Barr says his summary accurately captured the report's conclusions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats are poised to make it easier for their committee chairmen to take the Trump administration to court.
A resolution unveiled Thursday would authorize a contempt case against Attorney General William Barr and former White House Counsel Donald McGahn for not complying with subpoenas. It would empower committee chairmen to launch legal action to enforce subpoenas in the future without a vote of the full House, if they have approval from a bipartisan group of House leaders.
It's the latest development in the standoff between President Donald Trump and House Democrats over investigations.
Barr defied a subpoena to provide an unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report . McGahn, referenced frequently in the report, declined to provide documents and testimony.
The House will vote Tuesday on the resolution.
FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2019, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., right, htalks with Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., center, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, at the Capitol in Washington. Special counsel Robert Mueller said May 29, 2019, he believed he was constitutionally barred from charging President Donald Trump with a crime but pointedly emphasized that his Russia report did not exonerate the president. Nadler, in a statement, said it falls to Congress to respond to the "crimes, lies and other wrongdoing of President Trump â and we will do so." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)
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U.S. Attorney General William Barr, right, listens to concerns raised about public safety in rural Alaska during at a roundtable discussion at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in Anchorage, Alaska. Barr did not take questions from reporters in his first public appearance after former special prosecutor Robert Mueller spoke to reporters after resigning at the completion of his report into Russian interference into the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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