August 31, 2016, 02:59 pm
House GOP leader lays out fall agenda
By Cristina Marcos
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) released an outline Wednesday of the chamber’s upcoming agenda that has a notable omission: a vote on a resolution to impeach the IRS commissioner.
Members of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus introduced a motion right before the House departed Washington for its summer recess that would have forced action on impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen within two days.
Since the House subsequently left town for two months, the Freedom Caucus may have to re-file its resolution when they return next week.
GOP leaders have been wary of allowing a vote to impeach the IRS commissioner, given that the House has only voted one other time in history — in 1876 — to impeach a Cabinet-level official.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/293996-mccarthy-lays-out-fall-agenda
