Article snippet: Speaker MORE committed a crime by lying to lawmakers during his testimony on Capitol Hill. "What is deadly serious about it is the attorney general of the United States of America was not telling the truth to the Congress of the United States. That's a crime," Pelosi said during a press conference in the Capitol. The remarks came as Democrats on Capitol Hill are increasingly lashing out at Barr for his handling of special counsel MORE's report on Russia's election interference. Some lawmakers are pressing for Barr to resign, others have floated the idea of impeachment and still others are weighing whether to bring contempt of Congress charges against the attorney general, who refused an invitation to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Pelosi, for her part, declined to say how — or if — Democrats would challenge Barr's actions, deferring those decisions to the committee heads. But she strongly suggested some response is forthcoming. Pelosi cited a recent statement from House Judiciary Committee Chairman MORE. The Democratic criticisms were fueled by revelations that Mueller had written to Barr in March expressing concerns over the nature of the attorney general's four-page summary of Mueller's report, which Barr delivered to Congress earlier that month. In that letter, which became public just hours before Wednesday's Senate hearing, Mueller said Barr's account "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office's work a... Link to the full article to read more