Jon Fox said "Perhaps what we need, you, as a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, may be in the best position to be our fiscal watchdog. We need a taxpayers' whistle blower law, because it seems to me that in a Federal agency or the private sector, if you report a wrongdoing, the law is supposed to say you are to be protected from bringing forward a wrongdoing so that redress can occur without having recrimination. Why should it be that someone who uses their free speech rights as an American, whether they agree with an agency or a Congressman or anyone for that matter should have to have their rights trampled upon just because the party in power or the person with authority disagrees with them? I hope that the oversight factor on whatever successor agency happens to the IRS is something that you are contemplating when you get involved with the legislation." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordOctober 21, 1997

Perhaps what we need, you, as a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, may be in the best position to be our fiscal watchdog. We need a taxpayers' whistle blower law, because it seems to me that in a Federal agency or the private sector, if you report a wrongdoing, the law is supposed to say you are to be protected from bringing forward a wrongdoing so that redress can occur without having recrimination. Why should it be that someone who uses their free speech rights as an American, whether they agree with an agency or a Congressman or anyone for that matter should have to have their rights trampled upon just because the party in power or the person with authority disagrees with them? I hope that the oversight factor on whatever successor agency happens to the IRS is something that you are contemplating when you get involved with the legislation.

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Jon Fox

Republican · Pennsylvania

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the need for a taxpayers' whistleblower law and oversight of the IRS.

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