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Ryan needs to go.

Tam

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The House Freedom Caucus will force a vote this week on a resolution to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, a caucus source confirmed to POLITICO on Tuesday.

Outgoing Rep. John Fleming (R-La.), a caucus member, is expected to file a privileged motion sometime Tuesday that's required ahead of filing the formal impeachment document. Under chamber rules, that means anyone in the House can call up the resolution after two days, so the vote will happen on Thursday.


It's the kind of move that could wreck Speaker Paul Ryan’s dream of a quiet, drama-free December.

Conservatives have been trying to impeach the IRS chief for more than a year now. Each time they try, however, GOP leadership and more moderate members of the conference have convinced them to back down in return for other, less extreme action against Koskinen, such as a hearing.

This time, around, insiders say the vote will happen. Republican leaders and chairmen are unlikely to offer anymore concessions to try to get the Freedom Caucus to drop the issue.

Conservatives believe Koskinen lied to Congress about agents deleting sensitive emails pertaining to the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, which exploded into the headlines in spring of 2013. Koskinen said he has told the truth.

Koskinen lied a to Congress and destroyed evidence in the IRS investigation of targeting Tea Party groups and when a vote to hold him accountable for his actions and impeach him, Paul Ryan and the Republican leadership voted with the Dems to stop the process and send the case back to committee where it has been sitting for over a year now. Will anyone ever be held accountable as long as the Republican leadership is covering even the Dems azzes when one is threatened with impeachment. :mad: :mad: :mad:
 

Traveler

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I hope people don't forget that Ryan and some of his ilk did all they could to give us Hillary. Expect his true colors to show whenever they can.
 

Steve

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Senate Democrats are assailing Republicans for removing a "Buy America" provision from the waterways bill that they say President-elect Trump supports but House GOP have worked to eliminate.

"They turned right around and ripped a provision out of the water resources bill" that requires any infrastructure water projects to use American-made steel, he said.

"That would case the loss of many more jobs than Republican saved in Indiana," Schumer said.

Schumer and Durbin are referring to language in the Senate-passed version of the Water Resources Development Act that would require the use of American iron and steel products in projects using money from the government's drinking Water State Revolving fund. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., reportedly pushed to strip the provision from the bill.

"This is a failure by House leadership to make a solid commitment to American manufacturers and workers," she said Tuesday. "American workers should build our infrastructure with American products and taxpayers' money should not be spent on Chinese or Russian iron and steel. It's disappointing that President-elect Trump is sitting silent in Trump Tower."

The bill's final language when released late Monday included a Buy America provision only for 2017. Such a one-year requirement would have been assured anyway, and Brown and others had wanted a permanent Buy America provision.

A pending bill authorizing billions of dollars for large water and sewer improvement projects, flood control and coastal protection had a so-called Buy America requirement when the Senate passed it. Then the bill went to the House to be reconciled with lawmakers' preferences there.

And suddenly, the Buy America language seemed to disappear. Some companies that import foreign steel or process it once it arrives in the United States had complained that the requirement would put them at a disadvantage. They said that Congress should let the free market work so the best product at the best price gets the government's dollars.

Buy America requirements are already common in a number of federal programs, including a fund that helps communities upgrade their drinking-water systems. But the requirements are subject to yearly approvals that lawmakers get appended to congressional spending bills

The giant water-resources package that's now before Congress would not only authorize such future spending bills but would also permanently codify the Buy America requirement.

The provision would have allowed for exceptions if American steel had quality or supply problems or drove up costs substantially. But as of now, the provision is neither firmly out nor firmly in.

Its fate is uncertain because lawmakers are awaiting a decision from House Speaker Paul Ryan as to whether to keep it or dump it.

The bill's final language when released late Monday included a Buy America provision only for 2017.

the law currently allows the provision into 2017, with annual re-approvals. Investment needs long term stability to cut overall costs.




Trump, said in Cincinnati just last week, "We will have two simple rules when it comes to this massive rebuilding effort: Buy American and hire American." And he said, "Whether it is producing steel, building cars or curing disease, we want the next generation of innovation and production to happen right here in America

I would expect establishment will soon either come around or get primary challenges as Tea Party Conservatives are still for cleaning house and are not afraid of hard work like the money grubbing democrats.
 
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