[sickoflibs]

RE :”For my edification - what IS the next step after a contempt vote?
Is there no law enforcement avenue available other than impeachment?”

Good question.

In 2007 or 2008 the Pelosi/Conyers judiciary held similar votes on contempt of GWB WH officials for refusing to testify to them under oath.
The next step is to refer the case to AG Holder for prosecution, in this case they will send him his own House indictment. Then he ignores it. Then Republicans do nothing,

This Boehner House session scores huge points in ‘talk’, but low grades in ‘results’.

Lets see what opinion polls do two weeks after the vote. We got an election coming up and Romney has not moved up in the polls after two bad weeks for Obama and then his late week amnesty announcement.

[NFHale]

I would like to see Romney grab a microphone and a camera and make a very public statement -

“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about. What is this administration hiding, and why?”

Throw the onus on them to “come clean”. Over and over and over again.

[sickoflibs]

Clarification :technically they were Bush ‘advisors’ not ‘officials’ I believe. The AG still had to testify under oath, but my point is the AG will just ignore the referral/indictment.

[Sir Napsalot]

I am sorry, 'refusing to testify under oath' is different than Holder lying to Congress.

We knew at least on two points Holder lied under oath - 1) he testified he did not talk to Obama about F&F; 2) he retracted claim on Bush AG

Roger Clemens just went through 'lying to Congress under oath'. Eric Holder as AG did just that. Who in DoJ is going to prosecute that? We know Holder definitely will not.