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.
Levin is still carrying water for IRS. Disgusting.
He is the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee...
Inappropriate: FRink!
What?
YES! The rigging of the election is the key fact here that we cannot forget. We have become Venezuela.
I think Levin’s role is to drone people to sleep...hard for me to pay attention
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
Guilty. Charge him with felony and get him to sing against Geithner and possibly the the West Wing...
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?
Many thanks for starting the thread...Off topic, but there is NO scheduled Carney presser as yet...which is weird.
How about Lerner? Is she still around or has she conveniently “resigned”?
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...
Hmmmm..Miller is a joke. Can’t use word targeting because it is a pejorative term and then goes on to describe targeting.....lol
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.
Miller looks like a young Eliot Gould..
How about Wilkins?
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.
Miller has all the body language of a liar.
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