[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 32 (Wednesday, February 26, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H1946]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    STOP TARGETING POLITICAL BELIEFS

  (Ms. JENKINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JENKINS. Mr. Speaker, investigations by the Ways and Means and 
Government Reform Committees have uncovered numerous examples of what 
appears to be a concerted effort by the IRS to target conservative 
groups and develop new regulations that could essentially silence 
conservative groups.
  If allowed to take effect, these proposed regulations impact groups 
that have always been allowed to voice their positions on public 
policy. Notably, one group exempt from these proposed regulations--even 
though they do similar types of outreach--is labor.
  Mr. Speaker, our Nation is founded on the freedom of speech, and any 
effort to hinder grassroots advocacy by the IRS must be stopped. At the 
very least the IRS regulations should be put on hold until 
investigations into the agency's prior misconduct are complete.
  I urge my colleagues to support the Stop Targeting of Political 
Beliefs by the IRS Act, to ensure the administration does not use the 
IRS as a weapon to silence groups based on political beliefs.

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