[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12742]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 KEEP THE IRS OFF YOUR HEALTH CARE ACT

  (Mr. PITTENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTENGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with a few questions:
  Should 16,000 IRS bureaucrats have the power to penalize the American 
people if they don't like your health care decisions?
  Will the quality of your health care depend on whether or not you 
support the President's political views? The IRS has already targeted 
conservative political groups. Will this intimidation be intensified 
once the IRS is enforcing ObamaCare?
  Is Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS bureaucrat who previously managed the 
tax exemption department, really qualified to run the IRS-ObamaCare 
enforcement division? Abuse of American citizens occurred on her watch. 
Is anyone worried--at least a little bit--that she now oversees our 
health care decisions?
  Mr. Speaker, the IRS has forfeited any claim to impartiality and has 
violated the trust of the American people. The IRS must not be involved 
in the health care decisions of ordinary Americans. On Friday, I urge 
you to join me in supporting H.R. 2009, the Keep the IRS Off Your 
Health Care Act.

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