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Oversight Leaders Probe IRS Coordination with Federal Election Commission

“Documents recently produced to the Committee demonstrate that FEC personnel communicated with IRS personnel about tax-exempt groups engaged in political activities,” the Chairmen write. “For instance, William Powers, an FEC official in the Office of the General Counsel, e-mailed Lois Lerner, then-Director of the IRS Exempt Organizations Division, on February 3, 2009, seeking information about the American Issues Project and the American Future Fund.”
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Oversight Subpoenas Treasury for IRS Targeting Documents

“During the past two weeks, President Obama and you have repeatedly labeled the IRS’s strategy of targeting Americans for their political beliefs as a ‘phony’ scandal. While the Obama Administration has so publicly deflected responsibility for the targeting, it simultaneously has attempted to thwart congressional oversight into the matter… the IRS has engaged in a systematic effort to delay, frustrate, impede, and obstruct the Committee’s investigation,” Issa writes in a letter ...
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Issa: Does New IRS Nominee Think Targeting Scandal is Phony?

WASHINGTON - On the news that President Obama has nominated John Koskinen, former non-executive chairman of Freddie Mac, to be the new Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., offered the following statement: “The first question Mr. Koskinen must answer is whether or not he agrees with President Obama that the IRS targeting Americans for their political beliefs is a ‘phony scandal.’ Anyone who does not ...
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Oversight to IRS Acting Commish: Stop Obstructing Committee’s Investigation

President Obama’s top official at the IRS has fallen far short of the President’s promise to work “hand in hand”
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Issa and Jordan Seek IG Investigation of New IRS Targeting Allegations

“The totality of your ‘targeting’ investigation along with evidence obtained by the Committee points to the fact that the IRS may have selected certain conservative organizations for additional scrutiny after the IRS already approved their tax-exempt status."
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IRS Chief Counsel’s Office Demanded Information on 2010 Election Activity of Tea Party Applicants

House Oversight and House Ways and Means today requested new documents related to IRS employee discussions
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Oversight Committee Announces Next IRS Targeting Hearing

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today announced the full Committee will hold a hearing next Thursday July 18th
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Issa to Dem Investigators: Stop Trying to Derail IRS Investigation

Oversight offers a strong admonition to House Democrats attempting to derail the investigation by the Ways and Means and Oversight and Government Reform Committees into political targeting at IRS.
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Oversight Committee to Vote on Lois Lerner’s Potential Waiver of Fifth Amendment Right

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will meet Friday, June 28th at 9:00 a.m. to consider a resolution regarding Lois Lerner’s potential waiver of her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself at the Committee’s May 22, 2013 hearing entitled “The IRS: Targeting Americans for Their Political Beliefs.”
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Issa Statement on Cummings’ Decision to Post IRS Investigative Interview Transcript on the Internet

Chairman Darrell Issa issued the following statement on Ranking Member Elijah Cummings’ announced intention to post the full investigative interview of IRS employee John Shafer on the Internet.