[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7276]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            THE IRS SCANDAL

  (Mr. HOLDING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOLDING. The deliberate targeting of conservative groups by the 
IRS is inexcusable, and it raises serious red flags about the agency's 
abuse of power.
  Mr. Speaker, what we see here is an institutional arrogance within 
the IRS. The American people should be able to trust that the agency 
responsible for collecting their hard-earned tax dollars will not 
discriminate against them based on their values or political views. 
While the Obama administration would have us believe that the IRS' 
targeting of conservative groups was the result of an increase in the 
number of nonprofit applications, the data clearly reveal this to be 
simply untrue.
  As if the targeting of conservative groups weren't bad enough, the 
IRS will also soon become the enforcer of ObamaCare--with the very same 
person previously in charge of the tax-exempt division at the IRS now 
in charge of the ObamaCare enforcement division.
  Mr. Speaker, we need accountability from this agency and this 
administration. The American people demand it.

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