The GOP-led House voted Tuesday against impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, delaying indefinitely the conservative effort to hold President Barack Obama’s top taxman accountable for the targeting of tea party groups.

Koskinen “would have been the first appointed executive-branch official  to meet that fate in 140 years.,” had the resolution succeeded, according to Politico.

Conservative lawmakers on Capitol Hill, however, had been pushing for Koskinen’s impeachment.

“We think Mr. Koskinen has to go,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told The Daily Signal.

Jordan, who has repeatedly called for Koskinen’s impeachment, said the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS is unacceptable. He said Koskinen’s role in the scandal warrants impeachment proceedings.

“Koskinen [was] brought in to clean up the mess, and he has done, in my judgement, just the opposite,” said Jordan, who previously led the House Freedom Caucus.

In the interview, Jordan outlined the corruption he said has occurred on Koskinen’s watch, including “allowing backup tapes to be destroyed that were under subpoena to be given to Congress, not telling [Congress] about Lois Lerner’s missing emails, making statements to Congress that turn out later to be not true.”

Jordan also highlighted a story from a tea party organization in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which has been waiting seven years for the IRS to approve its tax-exempt status.

All of this activity, according to Jordan, is sufficient grounds for Congress to impeach Koskinen.

“When all that happens, and you’re the head of this agency, we think you’ve got to go. So we plan to make a motion [Tuesday] afternoon on the House floor that says that we should bring up impeachment proceedings and an impeachment vote against Mr. Koskinen,” Jordan said.

By filing a motion Tuesday, the conservative lawmakers attempted to force the House to vote before Congress adjourns for the year.

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., agrees, saying that if that resolution passed, the next Congress would “take it up and judge it on the merits of the argument.”

Meadows, who recently became chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said this call for impeachment is all about holding government officials accountable for their actions.

President Barack Obama has described efforts to impeach Koskinen “crazy” and Koskinen believes that allegations calling for his impeachment “lack merit.”

This article has been updated.

Copyright 2016 The Daily Signal