by Jane Richey | Jan 15, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa said that “politically motivated” leaks discredit the FBI investigation into the IRS targeting scandal, which is not expected to result in any criminal charges. “There is little reason for the American people to...
by Jane Richey | Jan 13, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
A story in USA Today about the proposed rules suggests that liberal groups have the same concerns as conservative groups, since the rules would hamper voter registration efforts. A spokesman for the NAACP, and the president of a liberal umbrella group, denounced the...
by Jane Richey | Oct 22, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The Internal Revenue Service paid out more than $110 billion in tax credits over the past decade to people who didn’t qualify for them, according to a Treasury report released Tuesday. The Earned Income Tax Credits were intended for poor working families. In his...
by Jane Richey | Jul 19, 2013 | Politics
The Treasury inspector general (IG) who outlined the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups aggressively defended his office from Democratic attacks on Thursday, saying he had never seen an independent auditor treated that way. Democrats at a House Oversight hearing...
by Jane Richey | Jul 18, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
IRS employees were ordered by their superiors–including Lois Lerner who pleaded the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination rather than testify in Congress–to send certain Tea Party tax-exemption applications to the office of the IRS’s Chief...
