[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5037-5038]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          TAX DAY BRINGS ANOTHER PAINFUL REMINDER OF IRS ABUSE

  (Mr. BABIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BABIN. Mr. Speaker, today is tax day, bringing us another painful 
reminder of our broken Federal Tax Code, which is being enforced at the 
heavy and, many times, unfair hand of

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the Internal Revenue Service. Simply put, American taxpayers are sick 
and tired of this out-of-control agency. The IRS has grown too large, 
too powerful, too aggressive, and too involved in the everyday lives of 
the American people.
  Today the House will pass a series of bills to end this abuse, and we 
invite the U.S. Senate and the President to join us. Our bills will 
protect the hard-working taxpayers and hold the IRS employees 
accountable. We create a taxpayer bill of rights, ensuring the American 
taxpayers are treated with the respect that they deserve. We will take 
steps to end the politicization of the IRS, which abusively and 
illegally targeted conservative American citizens.
  From lost emails to refusing to testify before Congress, the IRS 
abuses must end. I urge my colleagues to support these commonsense 
bills to bring transparency and accountability to this runaway agency.

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