Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague from Missouri for bringing this bill to the floor and for his leadership in holding the IRS accountable. Mr. Speaker, I guess we should start with the question of who is attacking whom. When you look at the actions of the IRS, especially in the last few years--and we have exposed this through our oversight here in this House majority--we have found it is the IRS that has been attacking the hardworking taxpayers of this country. It has not only been documented, but it has come out in hearings that the IRS was actually targeting people--American citizens--based on their political views. The IRS was. You could expect this, maybe, in a Third World country where the government would actually be attacking people based on their political views, but, here in America, this IRS was doing just that, and we exposed it. One is seeing with the bill that Congressman Smith is bringing forward that the IRS has created, in essence, a slush fund, using user fees for things that weren't even intended and that aren't even in the purview of Congress. What are they afraid of? Why are they afraid of having some real transparency so that we can actually hold the IRS accountable for these user fees? Hundreds of millions of dollars of user fees, by the way, are paid by hardworking families out there who are struggling to get by.…”