[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11000]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           IRS INVESTIGATION

  (Mr. SMITH of Nebraska asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Nebraska. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call on the 
Department of Justice to appoint a special prosecutor to examine 
political targeting at the IRS. Abuse of the Tax Code for political 
purposes by the most feared and powerful agency in the Federal 
Government is simply unacceptable.
  Despite promises of full cooperation, we have yet to receive all of 
the documents we have requested from the agency. The IRS tells us it 
cannot locate nearly 2 years of emails from Lois Lerner, a central 
figure in the investigation. We know the IRS has been aware of this 
concern for months and chose not to notify Congress in a timely manner.
  We must work to restore confidence that Americans won't be targeted 
for their political beliefs. The House of Representatives has already 
voted on a bipartisan basis to urge the Department of Justice to 
appoint a special prosecutor, and I hope that the Department of Justice 
will work to assure the American people that the scales of justice also 
apply to the IRS.

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