Posted on 07/10/2014 2:33:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON – WND has learned the House of Representatives is considering whether to send Lois Lerner to jail for contempt of Congress.
Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, has just submitted a bill, HR 664, which finds Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before a congressional committee.
Lerner, the former head of the IRS tax-exempt division, has admitted the IRS improperly targeted conservative groups seeking 501(c)(3) status.
However, Lerner twice invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to testify before the House Oversight Committee.
The bill only has to pass the House, not the Senate, in order to go into effect.
And the House is controlled by Republicans, so its passage would seem assured.
If the House passes the bill and finds Lerner in contempt, she could go to jail, according to a copy of the legislation obtained by WND.
The bill states that she should be held in contempt because the threat of prosecution has clearly been insufficient to encourage her “to be honest and candid with Congress regarding the heinous actions of the Internal Revenue Service.”
It further states, “That the Speaker issue his warrant directed to the Sergeant-at-Arms, or his deputy, commanding him to arrest and take into custody forthwith, wherever to be found, the body of Lois G. Lerner and bring her to the bar of the House without delay to answer to the charge of contempt of its authority, breach of its privileges, and gross and wanton insult to the integrity of its proceedings, and in the meantime keep the body of Lerner in his custody in the common jail of the District of Columbia, subject to the further order of the House.
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Holder has nothing to do with that office. Holder is administration. SOA is legislative branch.
/johnny
RE: the Federal attorney for DC, COMPLICIT IN TREASON, refused to honor Congress or the law by prosecuting Holder.
So, why can’t they hold the Federal attorney in contempt as well?
It would have had to be a congressman from Texas. Where else?
She needs to be in shackles when she is brought in to be sentenced. A pardon awaits her from the clown.
Wait a minute: Lerner works for Obama so therefore it’s racist.
Yes, she was on her way to "The View".
I am not defeated. But this is Stockman and a a few others with absolutely no leverage on Boehner. Boehner has already said he is not going to put Lerner in jail after she was previously found in contempt by Congress.
This contempt ‘resolution’ is just Stockman taking advantage of the timing of the current news that Lerner was cautioning people to be careful of what they say in emails and to communicate via instant chats which could were unmonitored.
So there’s no defeatism here. There’s only Boehner and he will bet he will not bring it to the floor. He will not allow it.
I think it’s more likely that Boehner will not be reelected as Speaker before I would believe he will put to a vote to jail Lerner.
It’s from the Drudge Archives. B^)
http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2014/04/09/20140409_215710.htm
Obama will pardon her.
The text of the resolution, H.Res. 664, follows.
Providing for the arrest of Lois G. Lerner to answer the charge of contempt of Congress
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. STOCKMAN submitted the following resolution, which was referred to the Committee on ______________
RESOLUTION
Providing for the arrest of Lois G. Lerner to answer the charge of contempt of Congress
Whereas Lois G. Lerner, former Director, Exempt Organizations, Internal Revenue Service, has been found to be in contempt of Congress for willfully and intentionally refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena duly issued by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, thereby obstructing the Congress in the lawful exercise of its constitutionally mandated legislative powers; and,
Whereas such behavior is an insult to the dignity of the House of Representatives, an attack upon the integrity of its proceedings, works violence upon the rights of the House collectively, and therefore implicates the long-recognized inherent power of the House to punish and commit for contempt, privileged under the Constitution; and,
Whereas recent history with similarly contumacious and insolent witnesses such as Eric Himpton Holder, Junior, strongly suggests that the present statutory judicial rubric set up to punish and reform such insubordinate and obstructionist witnesses would be ineffective in this case, as it is likely that the US Attorney for the District of Columbia would refuse to perform his lawful duty to bring the offending contemnor Lerner before a Grand Jury and prosecute the same for her misconduct pursuant to section 104 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 194) and section 102 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 192); and,
Whereas the executive and judicial branches’ prolonged and dawdling failure to prosecute Attorney General Holder’s insolent contempt of the 112th Congress strongly suggests that a like proceeding against contemnor Lerner would be similarly futile, and the threat of such prosecution has clearly been insufficient to encourage contemnor Lerner to be honest and candid with the Congress regarding the heinous actions of the Internal Revenue Service;
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Speaker issue his warrant, directed to the Sergeant-at-Arms, or his deputy, commanding him to arrest and take into custody forthwith, wherever to be found, the body of Lois G. Lerner, and bring her to the bar of the House without delay to answer to the charge of contempt of its authority, breach of its privileges, and gross and wanton insult to the integrity of its proceedings, and in the meantime keep the body of Lerner in his custody in the common jail of the District of Columbia, subject to the further order of the House. While in custody, Lerner shall enjoy no special privileges beyond those extended to her fellow inmates, shall not access any computer or telephone, and shall not be visited by anyone other than her counsel, clergy, physician, or family.
“Should Lerner and Snowden shack up together?”
Not on your life! My bet is that he wouldn’t touch her with someone else’s “ten foot pole.”
Oh Lois! Loooooooooooois! Remember when you were little and you dreamed of going to prison to protect a bunch of dirty thieves? I didn’t think so.
Hi JR! Is it sergeant of arms, or sergeant at arms? Please help me.
Thanks
About time.
/johnny
Lois would get a big fat Obampardon and, no, Barrybuttnugget
will not be impeached. Still, I would like to see the FReepernation
art staff come up with some potential prison tattoo art for various
Obama Administration crooks starting w/ Obama a.nd Holder.
I will be calling Boehner tomorrow about the stand of no impeachment and Lois the criminal Lerner.
(202) 225-0600
Boehner seems to be the main reason that BO is getting away with all his criminal activities. Who’s paying him or who’s blackmailing him? That’s all it could be. Let’s call and ask him.
(202) 225-0600— Boehner’s number in DC
I don’t understand it at all.
It’s like watching Hitler or Chavez grind down their respective democracies by systematically subverting the organs of government.
ROFLMAO!!!!.....................................Great one!........................
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