i want budgets set at the beginning of any Congressional investigation. The committee will then have to live within that budget. The only way to add additional funding to a Congressional investigation is to PROVE there is a solid reason to continue. These are all witch hunts and reduce the efficiency of the department in question. Staff has to accommodate requests by the investigation and set their own work aside. Agencies can be crippled by these Congressional investigations. Enough.
There needs to be certain ETHICAL criteria set to even begin investigations.
September 21, 2016
By Lynnley Brown
There needs to be certain ETHICAL criteria set to even begin investigations.
September 21, 2016
By Lynnley Brown
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen (click here) expressed regret Wednesday that the agency failed to preserve all the information congressional investigators sought in a 2014 probe of the agency, but told federal lawmakers it would be “improper” to impeach him.
During a hearing expected to be dominated by sharp partisan exchanges, Koskinen, 77, sought to persuade members of the House Judiciary Committee to stave off an impeachment drive by the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus. Koskinen’s appearance was arranged last week; congressional leaders promised the hearing after Freedom Caucus members backed off their demands for an immediate impeachment floor vote.
Representative John Conyers, the Michigan Democrat who serves as the Judiciary panel’s ranking member, decried “partisan attacks” that he said were cloaked in an impeachment process that he said was “doomed to fail” because of a lack of evidence of wrongdoing. Chairman Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican, said Congress has a “duty to serve as a check on the other branches, including against corruption and abuse.”|
“That is why this committee has scheduled this hearing today,” Goodlatte said....
