IV 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 664 
Providing for the arrest of Lois G. Lerner to answer the charge of contempt 
of Congress. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 10, 2014 
Mr. STOCKMAN submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Rules 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for the arrest of Lois G. Lerner to answer the 
charge of contempt of Congress. 
Whereas Lois G. Lerner, former Director, Exempt Organiza-
tions, Internal Revenue Service, has been found to be in 
contempt of Congress for willfully and intentionally refus-
ing 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; 
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-rec-
ognized inherent power of the House to punish and com-
mit for contempt, privileged under the Constitution; 
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Whereas recent history with similarly contumacious and inso-
lent witnesses such as Eric Himpton Holder, Junior, 
strongly suggests that the present statutory judicial ru-
bric set up to punish and reform such insubordinate and 
obstructionist witnesses would be ineffective in this case, 
as it is likely that the U.S. 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 pursu-
ant 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); 
Whereas the executive and judicial branches’ prolonged and 
dawdling failure to prosecute Attorney General Holder’s 
insolent contempt of the 112th Congress strongly sug-
gests that a like proceeding against contemnor Lerner 
would be similarly futile, and the threat of such prosecu-
tion has clearly been insufficient to encourage contemnor 
Lerner to be honest and candid with the Congress re-
garding the heinous actions of the Internal Revenue Serv-
ice: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the Speaker issue his warrant, di-
rected to the Sergeant-at-Arms, or his deputy, com-
manding 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 
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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 ac-
cess any computer or telephone, and shall not be visited 
by anyone other than her counsel, clergy, physician, or 
family. 
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