Rep. Tim Huelskamp will call for a post-election vote to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen when Congress returns from Thanksgiving recess, he told the Washington Examiner.
Huelskamp, R-Kan., said he has no plans to drop his effort to oust Koskinen, whose term does not expire until November 2017.
“We need to clean house, especially at the IRS,” Huelskamp said.
Huelskamp said Koskinen could pre-empt a vote by announcing he will retire when Republican President-elect Trump takes office in January. “But barring that, I anticipate that two weeks from now we will introduce that resolution,” Huelskamp said.
Congress returns from Thanksgiving recess on Nov. 29.
Republican leaders have tried to steer Huelskamp and other conservatives away from forcing a Koskinen impeachment vote. But they will likely hold little sway with Huelskamp, who lost the GOP primary and is not returning to Congress next year.
Conservatives say Koskinen has not been forthcoming with Congress about missing IRS emails associated with past targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. He has also been accused of mismanaging the IRS customer service and taxpayer privacy.
This year, GOP leaders held off an impeachment vote by agreeing to hold an impeachment hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, which featured Koskinen’s testimony under oath. But conservatives said Koskinen only reinforced their belief that he should be ousted from the IRS.
