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LIVE THREAD: Congress Begins Investigation into IRS Targeting
C Span | May 17, 2013

Posted on 05/17/2013 6:02:03 AM PDT by don-o

The House Ways and Means Committee holds the first Congressional hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) subjecting applicants for tax-exempt status to higher levels of scrutiny based on political leanings.

Witnesses include Acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller who resigned on Wednesday and the Treasury Department’s Inspector General Russell George for Tax Administration.

Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) said the IRS' targeting of "American taxpayers based on politics is both astounding and appalling." He stated that the Committee will "get to the bottom of this practice and ensure it never takes place again.”

In announcing the hearing, Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) said that it is "essential that there be a thorough and bipartisan investigation and effective remedial action.”

Since June 2011, the Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating whether the Internal Revenue Service discriminated against taxpayers based on political opinions.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bypassingscourt; citizensunited; dictator; discrimination; impeachnow; irs; irsscandal; liveirshearing; obamaresponsible; obamascandals; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; profiling; ratscandals; vanity
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To: pollywog

Levin is still carrying water for IRS. Disgusting.


101 posted on 05/17/2013 6:40:11 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: MustKnowHistory

He is the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee...


102 posted on 05/17/2013 6:40:27 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: matginzac

Inappropriate: FRink!


103 posted on 05/17/2013 6:41:21 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o

What?


104 posted on 05/17/2013 6:41:50 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: pollywog

YES! The rigging of the election is the key fact here that we cannot forget. We have become Venezuela.


105 posted on 05/17/2013 6:41:53 AM PDT by binreadin
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To: caww

I think Levin’s role is to drone people to sleep...hard for me to pay attention


106 posted on 05/17/2013 6:41:59 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: MrB

Levin says not to make this political in opening remarks...and then proceeds to white wash the entire abuse of power with democrat/media matters talking points...lol


107 posted on 05/17/2013 6:42:01 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: caww

Guilty. Charge him with felony and get him to sing against Geithner and possibly the the West Wing...


108 posted on 05/17/2013 6:42:36 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Graewoulf

Is any committee hauling this Sarah Ingram’s but up to Capitol Hill?

Also. I’m at work without access to a TV. Are there any conservatives on this panel?


109 posted on 05/17/2013 6:43:00 AM PDT by Mangia E Statti Zitto
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To: don-o

Many thanks for starting the thread...Off topic, but there is NO scheduled Carney presser as yet...which is weird.


110 posted on 05/17/2013 6:43:10 AM PDT by ken5050 (Due to all the WH scandals, MSNBC is changing its slogan from "Lean Forward" to "BOHICA")
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To: Mangia E Statti Zitto

How about Lerner? Is she still around or has she conveniently “resigned”?


111 posted on 05/17/2013 6:44:45 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: ken5050

Many thanks for starting the thread...Off topic, but there is NO scheduled Carney presser as yet...which is weird.


Either he is too busy prepping for the Friday afternoon news dump or he got out of Dodge City ahead of the lynchings...


112 posted on 05/17/2013 6:44:59 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Mangia E Statti Zitto

Fox On line here...if you can ...

http://www.wwhdtv.com/watch-fox-news-live-streaming/


113 posted on 05/17/2013 6:45:03 AM PDT by caww
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To: ken5050

Hmmmm..Miller is a joke. Can’t use word targeting because it is a pejorative term and then goes on to describe targeting.....lol


114 posted on 05/17/2013 6:45:06 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: don-o

This is just bs. How is any investigation effective with this leap for tv face time?

The people at the operational level, those with their names on the IRS letters sent to victims and those that had conversations with victims, should be leveraged first.

These people need to be criminally charged so they give up the puppet masters.


115 posted on 05/17/2013 6:45:29 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: penelopesire

Miller looks like a young Eliot Gould..


116 posted on 05/17/2013 6:45:48 AM PDT by ken5050 (Due to all the WH scandals, MSNBC is changing its slogan from "Lean Forward" to "BOHICA")
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To: matginzac

How about Wilkins?


117 posted on 05/17/2013 6:45:50 AM PDT by maggief
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To: ken5050
Many thanks for starting the thread...Off topic, but there is NO scheduled Carney presser as yet...which is weird.

Welcome. I have to do some chores / errands. If it happenes I will try to get a thread up for the briefing if it happens.

118 posted on 05/17/2013 6:45:55 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: penelopesire
Camp doing a pretty good job..setting him up for lawsuit that Ted Olsen is bringing.

IMHO this is the only hope. Perhaps a class action law suit could be so huge as to burn them to the ground.
119 posted on 05/17/2013 6:46:45 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: caww

Miller has all the body language of a liar.


120 posted on 05/17/2013 6:46:52 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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