Republicans hit IRS’ Lois Lerner with contempt [View all]
Source: Politico
The House voted to hold Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress, just three days before the anniversary of the day the former IRS official ignited the tea party targeting furor.
The Republican-led chamber voted largely along party lines 231 to 187 to place the woman who has become the face of the controversy in contempt for refusing to answer House Republicans’ questions. A handful of Democrats voted with Republicans.
“You don’t get to use a public hearing to tell the public and press your side of the story and then invoke the Fifth,” said Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on the House floor. “That is not how the Fifth Amendment is meant to be used. It is a shield; Lois Lerner used it as a sword.”
Democrats dismissed the process as political foreplay designed for election season.
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