Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1026, as has been described, this actually had come before Congress before. Dr. Boustany and Mr. Roskam have presented this. This is about taxpayer knowledge of IRS investigations. Now, this would make sense to almost everybody to understand what exactly has been going on. Under section 6103 in the Tax Code, it is a felony to disclose or to compromise people's tax information and give it to other groups to work with. We shouldn't have to pass laws like this; but unfortunately, laws are not made and governments are not run by angels but they are run by men, so we have to have oversight over what has happened. This piece of legislation gives the same rights to those people whose information has been violated, whose information has been compromised, as is given to IRS personnel. We found out 2 years ago, and Dr. John Eastman really made the point of it for the National Organization for Marriage, their tax information on their people, their members, was given out, and it went to Human Rights Campaign. Now, you would think by the name of that that it makes sense, Human Rights Campaign, those are probably good people, but you cannot divulge private tax information to anybody else. It is a felony to do that. But section 6103 also prevented those whose tax information was divulged, they couldn't get information on it. They weren't allowed to even inquire and were not allowed to be informed of what was taking place.…”