[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12718]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    IMPEACHMENT OF IRS COMMISSIONER

  (Mr. JODY B. HICE of Georgia asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. JODY B. HICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, we are facing an extremely 
important decision right now to examine and weigh the actions of an 
individual and determine whether or not we are going to hold that 
individual accountable.
  When John Koskinen entered the public arena, he then became 
accountable to the public, and that is what we are now facing. Here is 
an individual, Mr. Speaker, who routinely showed disrespect and 
contempt for this institution, who lied before our committees, who did 
not give us the evidence we needed to fulfill the investigations we 
were to do, and destroyed evidence literally on a massive scale. We 
must hold him accountable for this.
  Here is an institution, the IRS, that has the power to destroy lives 
and to ruin businesses. We know for a fact that, even just a couple 
weeks ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit determined 
that the IRS has been targeting conservatives and conservative 
organizations on multiple fronts, and they cannot confirm that that has 
ceased at all.
  So we cannot let him get out of this with just a whimper. It is time 
for this House to do its job and hold him accountable.
  I thank the gentleman from Ohio for holding his Special Order, and I 
hope my colleagues will join in the impeachment proceedings of John 
Koskinen.

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