Political Quotes

“I will do that. I decided to go back to 2013 to the hearing of Ways and Means. After the inspector general gave his report--this is May 17, 2013--this is what I asked the inspector general: Did you find any evidence of political motivation in the selection of the tax-exemption applications? And the inspector said: We did not, sir. Look, we could spend hours talking about what has happened to the rules regarding 501(c)(4)'s in this country. We could go back and discuss the abuse of the 501(c)(4) provisions. We could go back and look at how much political money is being poured into this process by 501(c)(4)'s. We could go back and discuss what was the original language in the 501(c)(4) legislation that no political money could be used. Instead, it was interpreted decades ago that it relates to the majority must not be. So what has happened is that 501(c)(4)'s--by the way, most of them are rightwing organizations, most of them. Most of the money has come from rightwing organizations using the mask of 501(c)(4)'s to essentially, I think, pollute the democratic processes in this country. We shouldn't really be doing that. You raised it; so, I am responding. What this bill does is simply say that the constitutional rights should essentially prevail, and I fully agree. It is already in the 1998 legislation. So let's move on. Let's not use vehicles for political purposes. Look, we have so much more we could be doing today in terms of tax legislation.…”