Political Quotes

“On a day when the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Mr. Camp, is unveiling a tax measure that requires serious bipartisanship to be successful, we are here on the floor considering a totally political bill in an attempt to resurrect an alleged scandal that never existed. Was there incompetence at the IRS in the processing of 501(c)(4) applications? Yes--and I was among the very first who said that those in supervision should be held accountable. Was there corruption, political interference, White House involvement, an enemies list, as the Republicans have claimed since day one? Absolutely not; no evidence whatsoever. Yesterday, the IRS Commissioner confirmed that $8 million has been spent directly on those investigations as over 255 people have spent over 79,000 hours doing nothing but responding to congressional investigations. An additional $6 million to $8 million has been spent to add capacity to information technology systems to process securely the 500,000 pages of documents Congress has received. What have they learned? That both progressive and conservative groups were inappropriately screened out by name and not activity, and that no one was involved in this outside of the IRS, and that there was no political motivation involved.…”