Issa Statement on Koskinen Impeachment Process

Press Release

Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-49) today released the following statement in response to House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz's decision, along with 18 other members of the Committee, to file an impeachment resolution against IRS Commissioner John Koskinen:

"This is a serious matter. The Judiciary Committee, on which I serve, will receive the impeachment resolution and consider the facts. Commissioner Koskinen oversaw the IRS at a time when key documents responsive to congressional subpoenas were destroyed. Furthermore, in sworn testimony before the Oversight Committee during my chairmanship, he misrepresented his agency's response to lawful inquiries into the IRS targeting scandal. The American people deserve better from their public servants, but this has become an all too familiar pattern in an Administration that chooses to misdirect, obscure and outright lie rather than truthfully describe their own actions. There has to be some consequence for misleading and obstructing a congressional investigation."

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