Demand Federal Employees to Give Information Pertaining to their Duties.

This petition is designed to demand a common-sense law for all United States Government employees. Such employees are paid for their work performed as an employee and it is wrong for such employees to refuse to give information about their official duties performed when required. Such employees should be disciplined accordingly and as soon as possible for their refusal to give information about their official duties performed.

On Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at a hearing held by the United States House Committee On Oversight and Government Reform, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee Lois Lerner invoked her Constitutional Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions. Ms. Lerner said, "On the advice of my counsel, I respectively exercise my Fifth Amendment right and decline to answer that question." Ms. Lerner was called to testify about her on-duty actions while a paid US Federal Employee.

Ms. Lerner is at the center of a political storm over the IRS agency's targeting of some conservative groups that were given extra scrutiny from 2010 into 2012, and the conservative groups' applications were being inappropriately delayed. During these noted years, Ms. Lerner was in charge of the IRS division overseeing tax-exempt groups at the time, and had said the scrutiny was partly a result of a surge in applications.
Ms. Lerner voluntarily retired later in 2013, and was not punished for her apparent neglect of duties, mismanagement and refusal to give testimony about her official duties.
Employees of the United States Government must be mandated to answer specific questions relating to their official duties, or render material and relevant statements, to a supervisor or other competent authority in a non-criminal administrative personnel investigation when so directed. The employee shall be advised of the consequences of their failure or refusal to answer questions or render material and relevant statements. An employee failing or refusing to do so, or who invokes the privilege of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, shall forfeit their position with the United States Government, or may be subjected to other serious administrative disciplinary action.

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