House Oversight Votes to Hold Lois Lerner in Contempt – Roll Call

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House Oversight Votes to Hold Lois Lerner in Contempt

By Emma Dumain

Posted June 30, 2015 at 12:30pm

By Emma Dumain and JM Rieger

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The Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted along party lines Thursday to hold ex-IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress. The vote, coming as Congress heads out of town for a two-week recess, is the latest chapter in a year-long probe that has sparked some of the fiercest partisan clashes among panel members in recent memory — from cutting off the ranking member’s microphone as he sought to speak to comparing the chairman to Sen. Joe McCarthy, R-Wis.

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