{"id":18287,"date":"2013-06-28T14:33:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T18:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18287"},"modified":"2013-06-28T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T18:33:31","slug":"irs-scandal-could-net-congressional-contempt-citation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18287\/irs-scandal-could-net-congressional-contempt-citation\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Scandal Could Net Congressional Contempt Citation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/wp\/2013\/06\/28\/house-committee-to-vote-on-lois-lerner-resolution\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lois Lerner impliedly waived her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination<\/a>, according to a party-line vote in the House Government Oversight Committee today.<\/p>\n<p>Lerner entered a brief statement declaring her innocence before invoking the Fifth Amendment during a May 14 appearance before the committee to discuss her role in the IRS scandal targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, Lerner was placed on administrative leave from the IRS.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution is the first step in a process that could result in a Contempt of Congress citation against Lerner. If so, she would be the second Obama administration political appointee to receive the highest form of censure by a congressional chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The other person: Attorney General <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1861-congress-has-the-right-perhaps-the-duty-to-impeach-eric-holder\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Holder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Washington Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lois Lerner impliedly waived her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, according to a party-line vote in the House Government Oversight Committee today. Lerner entered a brief statement declaring her innocence before invoking the Fifth Amendment during a May 14 appearance before the committee to discuss her role in the IRS scandal targeting conservative groups for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,3641,498,4183,3949,735,4153,24],"class_list":["post-18287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-contempt","tag-eric-holder","tag-fifth-amendment","tag-house","tag-irs","tag-lois-lerner","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18293,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18287\/revisions\/18293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}