Easing some of the escalating tension between Congress and the White House, the House intelligence committee postponed efforts to enforce a subpoena against the Justice Department on Wednesday after officials agreed to hand over a cache of documents related to special counsel Robert Mueller�s Trump-Russia report.

The agreement came a day after the department said it would be willing to provide documents from Mueller�s investigation but only if the committee didn�t take action against Attorney General William Barr. The panel had been expected to vote at Wednesday�s meeting � now postponed � on an unspecified �enforcement action� against Barr or the department after they refused to hand over an unredacted version of Mueller�s report and other documents related to the Russia probe.

Democrats have accused President Donald Trump and Barr of trying to stonewall and block their constitutional oversight duties. A separate House panel voted earlier this month to hold Barr in contempt after he failed to comply with a similar subpoena.

The Justice Department will begin turning over 12 categories of �counterintelligence and foreign intelligence materials as part of an initial rolling production,� and that process should be completed by the end of next week, Rep. Adam Schiff, the intelligence committee�s chairman, said in a statement.

Schiff, a California Democrat, warned that the subpoena would remain in effect and �will be enforced should the Department fail to comply with the full document request.�

Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd told Schiff in a letter Tuesday that the Justice Department would be willing to make less-redacted portions of the report available to members of the committee and that officials were reviewing troves of investigative documents that were also requested by the committee.

�We appreciate the continued dialogue with the Committee and look forward to working toward appropriately accommodating their requests,� department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said Wednesday.

(AP)