HARRISBURG — A second process to consider the possible removal of embattled Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane got under way Tuesday in the form of a House resolution authorizing an investigation with subpoena power.

The two-page resolution, sponsored by Rep. Garth Everett, R-Lycoming, would direct the Judiciary Committee to make recommendations about Kane’s possible impeachment.

Kane, a first-term Democrat, has been without a law license since October, when the state Supreme Court suspended it while she battles criminal allegations she leaked secret grand jury information and lied about it under oath.

The House procedure was proposed a day before a special Senate committee is due to make public a report, after which the full chamber could decide to use an obscure constitutional provision to remove her from office. The Senate has focused on the impact of losing her law license on Kane’s capacity to do her job.

Kane issued a statement saying that as a taxpayer she wonders why Republicans are devoting time and money to remove “an independent attorney general who has initiated an investigation by a special prosecutor into racist, misogynistic and homophobic e-mails circulated by government officials.”

Kane has challenged the constitutionality of the Senate process, and also recently asked the Supreme Court to reinstate her license, saying the vote to suspend it was improper because of the involvement of Justice Michael Eakin, currently awaiting trial in an ethics court over his participation in trading salacious and objectionable e-mails. Kane informed the high court and state ethics agencies this fall about Eakin’s use of e-mails, which could result in his removal from the bench.

The House resolution would have the Subcommittee on Courts gather witness testimony, prepare and file pleadings and other legal documents and make recommendations to the Judiciary Committee.

Judiciary Chairman Ron Marsico, R-Dauphin, said discussions about a House-started impeachment process have been going on for about two months.

“Is she doing the job as attorney general?” Marsico said. “Or is her staff doing the job she’s supposed to do?”

Kane’s written statement said some of the e-mails she has reviewed involve federal prosecutors who live in Marsico’s Harrisburg-area district.

“Why isn’t the Judiciary Committee looking into a judicial system that is clearly broken?” Kane wrote.