Earlier this week, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, took to the House floor to call for the removal of Commerce Inspector General Todd Zinser. “The evidence the committee obtained regarding Mr. Zinser’s personal misconduct and professional mismanagement of his office is overwhelming,” she said, before laying that evidence out in great detail.
The bipartisan investigation into Zinser’s conduct in office began in 2012, when a financial scandal was revealed at the National Weather Service. Federal employees there had illegally reprogrammed $36 million of the agency’s budget without consulting Congress. They been doing this since 2006.
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