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On the recordJuly 8, 2015
You had an agency with the power of the Internal Revenue Service systemically and for a sustained period of time target groups for exercising their most fundamental right under the First Amendment.
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Jim Jordan
Republican · Ohio

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Criticism of IRS targeting individuals' First Amendment rights.

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