Senators challenged Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Wednesday over the Obama administration's long-delayed pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay and its plans to try alleged Sept. 11 co-conspirators. But Holder conceded little and emerged from the session mostly unscathed.

Holder has been assailed for months over his handling of terrorism cases. Four weeks ago, he snapped to House Republicans that Osama bin Laden would never appear in a U.S. courtroom and that authorities "will be reading Miranda rights to a corpse." That heightened the expectation that Holder would face a grilling from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.

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