Oversight committee split on removing IRS chief

Published July 29, 2015 4:01am ET



Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee disagree on whether to ask the president to remove the head of the IRS, with Republicans slamming the commissioner’s relatively short track record and Democrats criticizing the majority’s “manufactured crisis” of an ongoing IRS scandal.

Led by Chairman Jason Chaffetz, 21 lawmakers on the committee urged President Obama to remove IRS Commissioner John Koskinen amid evidence that the tax agency official had obstructed the committee’s investigation of IRS targeting,

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