Story highlights A House committee voted 23-15 Wednesday to censure IRS head John Koskinen

The censure came as critics say Koskinen allowed backup tapes containing potentially 24,000 emails to be destroyed

(CNN) The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted Wednesday to censure IRS head John Koskinen as a result of the IRS targeting scandal.

The resolution ultimately passed in a party line vote, 23-15.

The censure vote, if passed by Congress, will remove Koskinen's government pension and other federal benefits, but does not formally punish him otherwise. Censure is used by Congress as a tool to publicly reprimand and urge further action -- the vote simply makes a political point.

So far, there is no full House vote scheduled on the committee's resolution.

This resolution comes alongside a separate effort from the House Judiciary Committee, which is expected to discuss a resolution to impeach the IRS commissioner in a June 22 hearing.

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