[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 120 (Thursday, September 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10046]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      IRS AUDIT OF COLLEGE COURSE

  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, I believe it is time for Members of this 
House to stand up to intimidation. A letter has been sent from the 
chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, Mr. Archer, to the 
Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Ms. Richardson, 
intimating that she should not continue with the audit of the two 
courses that were given in Georgia on which the Speaker was a party. 
They were at the Reinhardt College and the Keenesaw State University.
  These audits that are ongoing are legitimate audits of a not-for-
profit foundation that was possibly used for political purposes. Yet 
Mr. Archer has written to the Commissioner asking her not to continue 
with the audits. That is intimidation. Never, I have been here 20 
years, I have never known a chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means 
ever try to intimidate an IRS commissioner.

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