Members of the House Judiciary Committee grilled Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. for almost four hours today at an oversight hearing, pressing him on the enforcement of drug laws, the Affordable Care Act, domestic surveillance and the lack of criminal prosecutions stemming from the financial crisis.

Testy at times, Holder yielded no ground. “I’ll put my record up against any other attorney general,” he said. “Any hint that we have engaged in anything partisan in nature … I 1,000 percent reject.”

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