Good morning and welcome to the third hearing in the Committee’s series on the President’s and other bipartisan entitlement reform proposals.     Workers have worked hard, played by the rules, and earned the right to a secure retirement that no one can take away.   Yet unless Congress acts to protect and preserve Social Security, beginning in 2033, Social… Read more

In the days since the Internal Revenue Service first disclosed that it had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, new information has emerged from both the Treasury Inspector General’s report and congressional testimony Friday that calls into question key statements made by Lois G. Lerner, the IRS’s director of the exempt organizations… Read more

On May 10, 2013, Lois Lerner, Director of Exempt Organizations for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) division that oversees tax-exempt groups, finally acknowledged that the agency had been targeting conservative-leaning political organizations.     Four days later, the Treasury Inspector General for Taxpayer Administration (TIGTA) confirmed that, “the IRS used inappropriate… Read more

Hearing on Internal Revenue Service Targeting Conservative Groups ________________________________________ HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES … Read more

I rise today in support of H.R. 45, legislation to repeal ObamaCare. In March 2010, then-Speaker Pelosi famously said, with respect to the President’s health care law, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it.”  Well, Washington Democrats passed that bill, and virtually every week since has been an expensive, eye-opening experience. Over the past three… Read more

The hearing will come to order.  Good morning and thank you for joining us for our hearing on the Ways & Means Small Business Tax Reform Discussion Draft. In March 2011, the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee held a hearing on small businesses and tax reform.  We learned that the temporary, complex nature of the tax code was forcing small business owners to invest… Read more

March-April 2010 According to TIGTA, the IRS’s Determinations Unit “began searching for other requests for exemption involving the Tea Party, Patriots, 9/12 and IRC § 501(c)(4) applications involving political sounding names, e.g., “We the People” or “Take Back the Country.” June 3, 2011 Chairman Camp sends letter to Commissioner Shulman inquiring about IRS targeting of taxpayers who… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement upon announcement that Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Commissioner Steve Miller would resign effective early June.   “The American people should be able to trust and have faith that, not only the IRS, but that the tax code will treat them fairly.  This resignation does nothing… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Commissioner Steve Miller requesting information on the targeting of organizations by the IRS. The Ways and Means Committee has led a nearly two-year investigation related to concerns that IRS was… Read more

Congressman Dave Camp, (R-MI), Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and Congressman Sander Levin (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Committee, today announced that the Committee will hold a hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings.  The hearing will take place on… Read more