Political Quotes

“more than 3 months ago, ProPublica began publishing a series of stories. These stories were based on what they have described as ``a vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data on the tax returns of thousands of the nation's wealthiest people, covering over 15 years.'' I have spoken about this apparent leak or hack on IRS data before. During the August recess, POLITICO Pro's Morning Tax, writing about ProPublica, noted that ``it's been almost two-and-a-half months since it ran its first story on that leaked tax data and, though the leak is perhaps the worst in the IRS's history, the government has yet . . . to say anything publicly about how it happened.'' As absurd as that statement is, it is also accurate, and I will speak about the accuracy of that. The Biden administration has not said what happened regarding perhaps the worst leak or hack in the history of the IRS. Now, in doing my constitutional duty of congressional oversight, I have sent letters to the IRS and to the Attorney General and to the FBI, who have provided an embarrassingly small amount of information in response to my letters. The first ProPublica story was published on June 8 of this year. On June 11, I joined Leader McConnell and Finance Committee Ranking Member Crapo on a letter to Attorney General Garland and FBI Director Wray. Days later, on June 16, I sent a letter with other Judiciary Committee members asking more detailed questions.…”