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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: jiggyboy

All by design..


81 posted on 05/17/2013 6:35:13 AM PDT by rainee (Her)
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To: RummyChick

He did...not in effect yet.


82 posted on 05/17/2013 6:35:16 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: MrB

Yes yes yes
Tried to tell folks it was a fraudulent election. It was thrown.


83 posted on 05/17/2013 6:35:40 AM PDT by seeker41 (Take back your country before it is too late-STOP islamic expansion in the USA)
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To: EternalVigilance

I think HANG THEM ALL would make a lot more sense.


84 posted on 05/17/2013 6:35:42 AM PDT by MNlurker
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To: Kevin in California
Here we go again with the “I don’t know” and “I don’t remember” crap.

The WaPo gives out Pinnochios. FR can give out Schultz's

I know nothing. I am not here. I did not even get up this morning.

 photo schultz.jpg

85 posted on 05/17/2013 6:36:04 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

Miller is not prepared.


86 posted on 05/17/2013 6:36:27 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: RandallFlagg
Here’s to hoping heads will roll.

NO HEADS ARE GONNA ROLL. The Obozo Admin is coated with way more teflon than Bubba Klintoon ever was. AND the GOP-e Leadership seems to cover for him. Boner refuses to allow a select committee to be formed for BenghaziGate, and frankly the entire mess will be forgotten in the public mind just like F&F. I hear talkers telling us be patient - it took Watergate 2 years to reach fruition. He$$, you think the public is ever even going to remember these scandals after a week or two in the 24x7 news cycle we live in today? This is nothing like 1972, but the GOP-e leadership is still living in the 1970s. I am so done with them.
87 posted on 05/17/2013 6:37:01 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: jiggyboy

J. Russell George is the Inspector General

Are they prohibited from bringing in notes or old notebooks or phone logs? He’s also just guessing as to how he found out what, and when, etc.

When did you become aware of the NOW donor list being released? “I read it in the newspapers” — DRINK!


88 posted on 05/17/2013 6:37:04 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: MrB
Folks, the gravity of this needs to be front and center.

THE IRS RIGGED THE 2012 ELECTION.

The 2012 election was a fraud, due to the actions of the IRS. The government in power now is ILLEGITIMATE.

~~~~ If they get away from this, our country will nose dive very QUICKLY here after.

89 posted on 05/17/2013 6:37:19 AM PDT by pollywog ("O Thou who changest not, abide with me.".......)
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To: don-o

Need that graphic with the text...’I did not know until I read it in the papers ‘


90 posted on 05/17/2013 6:38:00 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: penelopesire

back to BUSH’S FAULT!!!!!!


91 posted on 05/17/2013 6:38:27 AM PDT by pollywog ("O Thou who changest not, abide with me.".......)
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To: pollywog

Considering who is over Obamacare now...yep!


92 posted on 05/17/2013 6:38:32 AM PDT by caww
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To: don-o

oh I like that, four Shultzes

Levin can’t resist asking Miller who appointed his predecessor (Bush), Levin you’re a GD hack!


93 posted on 05/17/2013 6:39:02 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: pollywog

How do you correct such a thing?


94 posted on 05/17/2013 6:39:07 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Red_Devil 232

He is doing what he was told by WH counsel office in secret. It is a planned strategy....make no mistake.


95 posted on 05/17/2013 6:39:14 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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I think Levin is drunk right now (or has had a stroke) .. drinking words: Bush.. appointee....


96 posted on 05/17/2013 6:39:15 AM PDT by Truth2012
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To: MrB
Of course it was also a tactic to siphon off resources so they couldn't be used against them.

It all like one the higher up political jack asses from then left spilled early on, their primary goal is to achieve a system of political patronage so they can control those resource to always remain on top of power.

97 posted on 05/17/2013 6:39:30 AM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: penelopesire

Next they’ll be saying they “Heard it thru the Grapevine”!


98 posted on 05/17/2013 6:39:40 AM PDT by caww
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To: don-o; GlockThe Vote; All

What we know so far:

” - - - Sarah Hall Ingram had been serving as commissioner of the office responsible for tax exempt organizations from 2009 to 2012, and has since left to serve as director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act division. While still the commissioner of the Tax-Exempt and Government Entities Division, she was assigned to head the implementation of ObamaCare at the IRS in 2010 after the law was enacted. It is not clear when she stopped being the head of the tax-exempt office or how active her role was there while she was implementing ObamaCare. - - - “

What usually happens BEFORE promotion, lateral transfer, or demotion of an employee in almost all large business or government bureaus:

THERE IS A REVIEW OF THE EMPLOYEE’S RESUME’ AND RECENT WORK ACHIEVEMENTS BY ONE OR MORE SUPERIOR SUPERVISORS.

The question for our sorry RINO Congressional politicians to be asking:

WHO WERE THE SUPERIOR OFFICIALS WHO REVIEWED INGRAM’S RESUME’ AND RECENT WORK ACHIEVEMENTS?


99 posted on 05/17/2013 6:39:44 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Cheerio

Hate to agree but this, as most of the events of late seem to be a CHarlie Foxtrot...sorry, after 2012 election, cynicism is my MO.
This guy Miller is so damn political in his attitude..
“ ....Mr. Bush....”....
Sir-ing Levin but not Camp??? POS


100 posted on 05/17/2013 6:40:03 AM PDT by matginzac
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