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Top GOP leader calls for special counsel to investigate private, home-based email server
Republican chairmen of the Judiciary, Homeland Security committees want meetings with senior State Department officials and top Clinton aides
Controversy continues to erode Clinton's once-safe polling lead on Democratic side of the 2016 presidential race

By J. Taylor Rushing, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com

Published: 11:15 EST, 16 September 2015 | Updated: 15:12 EST, 16 September 2015

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Senate Republicans are growing quickly emboldened to persecute Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, joining their GOP colleagues in the House and continuing Clinton's skid in the polls.

Republicans in Congress's upper chamber had been reticent for most of this year in going after Clinton, content instead to let House Republicans to take a more aggressive attack first.

But this week, GOP Senate Whip John Cornyn of Texas called for a special counsel to investigate the scandal known as 'Server-Gate,' according to The Hill.

And both Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin demanded a sit-down meeting with State Department officials to discuss Clinton's email practices while secretary of state.

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Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, pictured here at a campaign rally Thursday in Milwaukee, has struggled to shrug off the ongoing controversy over her private email use while secretary of state

Clinton maintains a strong polling lead on the Democratic side of the 2016 presidential race, but is now slipping in early contest states like Iowa and New Hampshire

Cornyn on Tuesday used especially pointed language, accusing Clinton of having 'intentionally evaded' federal laws governing freedom of information and national security.

Grassley and Johnson are among a small group of senior Republicans who are considering offering legal immunity to Bryan Pagliano, a former top Clinton aide who installed the home-based email server in Clinton's New York home.

Otherwise, Pagliano has said, he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Attorney General Loretta Lynch will have to sign off on granting such immunity.

Such testimony - either publicly or privately - could roil Capitol Hill this fall, just as Clinton herself is expected to testify before a House committee investigating the terrorist attacks in Benghazi.

The Benghazi episode led to the discovery of Clinton's private email use while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2012.

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas wants answers about Hillary Clinton's private email use, accusing her this week of 'intentionally evading' federal public record laws

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa has also joined a growing chorus of critics of Clinton on Capitol Hill, demanding answers from current and former Clinton aides at the State Department

Senate Homeland Security Committee Ron Johnson of Wisconsin has joined Grassley in asking the Justice Department to grant legal immunity to Clinton aide Bryan Pagliano to compel his testimony about Clinton's use of a private, home-based email server

Grassley and Johnson sent their request in a direct letter to current Secretary of State John Kerry, who like Clinton is a former veteran member of the Senate.

Republicans' next steps in the various probes will depend on Kerry and Lynch's responses.

Clinton has tried to downplay Republican efforts to use the email controversy against her, saying the majority party in Congress is simply playing politics.

However, mindful of the damage it has caused to her campaign, both on the Democratic primary side as well as in hypothetical general election match-ups against potential Republican rivals, Clinton has been more contrite in recent media interviews.

Clinton maintains a solid double-digit lead of 21.4 percent in national polls over Bernie Sanders, a Vermont senator challenging her in the Democratic primaries, show the most recent polling averages compiled by RealClearPolitics.

The former first lady and secretary of state is expected to testify this fall before a House committee investigating the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

But she is struggling in early battleground states like Iowa and New Hampshire.

In Iowa, RCP's polling averages show an even tie between Clinton and Sanders. In New Hampshire, Sanders is actually leading her by 11.2 percentage points.

Specifics that GOP senators want to know include how Clinton's private server was set up in her home, who authorized it and how it worked.

Pagliano was a personally paid Clinton employee when he installed the server.

The coarsening language by Cornyn, Grassley and Johnson is especially notable when considering the terms they used earlier this year.

At that time, Cornyn merely suggested an investigation into whether Clinton broke the law, while Grassley said she 'probably' violated public record laws.