Political Quotes

“On May 10, 2013, the Internal Revenue Service admitted to inappropriately targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny in connection with their applications for tax-exempt status. {time} 1730 President Obama denounced this behavior as ``outrageous'' and ``unacceptable'' and stated that the IRS ``as an independent agency requires absolute integrity, and people have to have confidence that they're applying the laws in a nonpartisan way.'' He pledged that the administration would ``find out exactly what happened'' and would make sure wrongdoers were ``held fully accountable.'' In testimony before my committee on May 15, 2013, Attorney General Holder testified that the Department of Justice would conduct a ``dispassionate'' investigation into the IRS's admitted targeting of conservative groups. The Attorney General promised me and the members of the Judiciary Committee that ``this will not be about parties, this will not be about ideological persuasions, and anyone who has broken the law will be held accountable.'' Unfortunately, that appears to be where the administration's commitment to pursuing this investigation ended. We have all seen the testimony from conservative groups stating that they had yet to be interviewed by the Department of Justice investigators more than a year after the allegations came to light.…”