1. “This is not a step we take lightly.”

That was Representative Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, above, as Democrats moved toward holding Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena for the unredacted Mueller report.

The vote, along party lines, came hours after President Trump asserted executive privilege, the first of his term, over the same material. The Justice Department called the vote an unnecessary and overwrought reaction.