Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Walker. Mr. Speaker, earlier this month, more details emerged about the IRS' targeting of conservative groups, where the agency tried to extort information on donors, find out what Members talked about at their meetings and probe into what Members did in their very free time. We learned this month that the IRS had set up yet another roadblock to prevent Congress and the American people from getting to the bottom of this scandal. The IRS established a team of hundreds of lawyers to redact information from the documents Congress had requested for its investigations. This obstruction makes me extremely concerned for every American who voices political beliefs that don't agree with this administration's, whether they are conservative, liberal, green, religious, or agnostic. I am grateful for the organization in my own district that exposed this scandal to the American people. The Richmond Tea Party was the first in the country to go public with the IRS' abuse. Once it was exposed, conservative groups from all over the country came forward and revealed that they were victims of the same IRS tactics. The IRS specifically targeted groups with ``Tea Party'' and ``patriot'' in their names because of their political positions. The IRS targeted them for increased scrutiny, and it delayed processing their applications for nonprofit status. {time} 2030 Let me go over that again just real slowly so the American people understand what is going on here.…”