Posted on 09/15/2016 9:27:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
House Republicans reached an agreement late Wednesday to avoid a potentially divisive floor vote on impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.
The deal scraps the vote on the so-called "privileged" impeachment resolution that had been expected to take place Thursday. Instead, the House Judiciary Committee will consider Koskinen's impeachment, with the IRS boss expected to testify sometime next week.
The agreement makes it unlikely that any vote by the full House to impeach Koskinen will happen until after the November election, if at all. House Republican leadership had balked on moving forward on impeachment proceedings during an election season, arguing that an impeachment vote risked irritating voters. Others said Koskinen deserved a full House Judiciary Committee probe before embarking on the seldom-used impeachment process.
The effort by conservative Republicans flows from the IRS' 2013 admission that for several years, it had targeted Tea Party groups seeking tax exemptions for rigorous examinations.
Conservatives say Koskinen obstructed the House GOP's investigation of the treatment of tea party groups seeking tax exemptions. Koskinen and his Democratic allies say he did nothing wrong and provided Congress with all the information he had and knew about.
The conservative House Freedom Caucus, which used a procedural maneuver to force a floor vote earlier this week, celebrated the development as a victory.
"This hearing will give every American the opportunity to hear John Koskinen answer under oath why he misled Congress, allowed evidence pertinent to an investigation to be destroyed, and defied Congressional subpoenas and preservation orders," the caucus said in a statement. "It will also remove any lingering excuses for those who have been hesitant to proceed with this course of action."
But the deal came only after conservatives predicted that their impeachment resolution was going to get sidelined by Democratic and Republican opposition Thursday.
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Best move I ever made becoming an independent, at least my name is no longer associated with any branch of the Uniparty.
The Republicans never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Lerner and the commissioner should have been in prison. Holder and Obama should have been impeached, over two years ago. Everything now is BS.
Thank god republicans won the House and Senate./s
Once again we see this same excuse used by supposedly conservative Republicans to avoid any attempt implement the platform they ran on to get elected. There are no conservatives in congress, only RINOs who claim to support conservative positions to get elected then refuse to govern that way once they get into office. They have all been bought and sold by the establishment.
SHOCKING!
Cut the IRS budget by 75% and wish them well.
As recently stated in a editorial. Congressional Republicans = Washington Generals.
I’m sure if he gets impeached now before BO gets out of office he will be pardoned or something. You know BO will never let him go to jail or lose his pension for following orders. It’s worth waiting a few months.
GOPe would have to take the K Street spoon out of their mouths.
GOP-e is the new way to spell Cronyism.
GOP-e will vote for food.
Every one of these Uniparty turds is scared to death that if they go after a crook, they themselves will then be exposed for all their crooked dealings as well. As long as they can maintain their power and wealth, there’s no limit to how far they’ll push the citizens of our nation down the toilet. The Globalist Uniparty MUST end!
Why?
Corruption, Corruption, Corruption. the definition of Washington. Can’t trust one of those PROSTITIANS!
The money talks doesn’t it?
Doing their #@$#! job is “divisive” so they’re just not going to do it? Great. I’ll try that one on my boss some time and see how it flies.
IRS officials illegally targeted American citizens based on their political beliefs. Even the President admtted this, at the time. If neither the President nor the Congress will do anything about it, it’s clear that they don’t care about protecting law abiding Americans.
Cucks. F* them all.
I’d be willing to bet yes, on both accounts. We can fully expect total opposition to a Trump administration from the dummycrats,. as well as the traitorous wretches in the GOP.
And we have a WINNER!!!!!!
so nothing is going to happen.
They wimped out.
Neither one. They simply think that we are unable to do anything about it. They look at that piece of excrement McCain and see he handily won his primary, and they think, well the conservatives hate McCain, and he's doing fine why should we change.
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