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GOP Chickens Out On Impeaching IRS Commissioner

Hank Berrien

This week, after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) introduced H.Res.828, the measure which would impeach Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John A. Koskinen, the GOP-led House failed to move the matter forward, instead referring the matter back to the Judiciary Committee. The vote to throw the mater back to the Judiciary Committee passed 342-72, with 166 Republicans bailing out and joining 176 Democrats.

The bill “[r]esolves that John Andrew Koskinen, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that specified articles of impeachment be exhibited to the Senate.”

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