Dave Camp

Opening new markets and enforcing our trade rights support economic growth and job creation here in the United States.

It is also important that we hear from IRS leadership about what immediate steps the agency has undertaken to address these actions.

The hearing will ensure that we have the IRS's perspective as Congress considers additional actions that are necessary to address both this broken agency and the broken Tax Code the agency used as a means to target and intimidate Americans…

we are in the early stages of this investigation, and, as we gather the facts, we will follow those facts wherever they lead.

At the close of the Committee's first hearing into the IRS's targeting of conservatives, I said this phase of the investigation was just beginning.

No taxpayer, regardless of political affiliation, should be unfairly targeted. It is wrong, and this Committee is working to ensure that it will never happen again.

These Americans consistently had their applications delayed for nearly 3 years, were asked intrusive and inappropriate questions, had their donor information leaked, and were even threatened by the IRS with additional taxes.

Today, I rise to welcome Pastor Ron Dunn to the House floor and to thank him for sharing his inspiring words this morning. Pastor Dunn has served in a number of ministry roles for the last 15 years. Currently, he is the senior pastor to…

While we now know that the IRS began targeting individuals based on their personal beliefs 3 years ago, we still need to know who began this targeting and why, and we need to understand how individuals were affected by the IRS' abuse.

Isn't it incredible what you are going through to maintain your First Amendment rights? ... we took an oath to defend our Constitution.

This was a willful act of intimidation to discourage a point of view. What the government did to our little group in Wetumpka, Alabama, is un-American.

At this time, I yield to the distinguished chairman of the Health Subcommittee for the purposes of controlling the balance of our time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Brady) will control the time…

That isn't being misled, that is lying.

Ms. Lerner should be relieved of her duties.

The American public expects the Internal Revenue Service to be apolitical in its enforcement of our tax laws.

We look forward to full and forthcoming answers to our questions today.

This systematic abuse cannot be fixed with just one resignation or two.

I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Price), a distinguished member of the Ways and Means Committee.

I yield 1 minute to the distinguished gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Benishek). (Mr. BENISHEK asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

The nation deserves a complete understanding of this matter, and as Chairman Camp and I discussed this morning, it is essential that there be a thorough and bipartisan investigation and effective remedial action.

People are losing confidence in our government. And I hope that you feel the same sense to find out what caused this, how it could happen, and help us to restore the confidence that Americans should have in their government.

At this time, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Graves).

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

If this hearing becomes essentially a bootstrap to continue the campaign of 2012 and to prepare for 2014, we will be making a very, very serious mistake.

I yield 1 minute to a distinguished member of the Ways and Means Committee, the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Young).