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Issa: Restoring Trust in IRS Requires Removal of IRS Commissioner Koskinen

Statement

Date: Aug. 6, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Operations

Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-49) today issued the below statement following the release of the Senate Finance Committee's investigative report into the IRS' targeting of conservative groups:

"The standard protocol over the past eight years has been for Congressional Democrats to serve as proxies for the Obama Administration, attempting to explain away even the most indefensible actions, regardless of what the facts show.

"We see the trend hold true in the Senate Finance Committee's report on the IRS' shameful political targeting. While Chairman Hatch rightly recognizes the IRS' egregious actions, Senate Democrats remain committed to defending the Obama Administration at any cost, even if it means attempting to retroactively pretend the IRS' targeting of conservative groups -- which the President called "intolerable and inexcusable' back in 2013 -- never occurred.

"The facts in this case speak for themselves. There is no path towards restoring Americans' trust in the IRS that does not include the removal of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen."


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