IRS Oversight While Eliminating Spending (OWES) Act of 2016

Floor Speech

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Mr. BABIN. Mr. Speaker, the American people are fed up with the IRS and rightfully so. With such a troubled and incompetent record, it is hard to imagine how anyone could trust this corrupt agency.

This week the House will take action, thanks in large part to my friend and colleague from Missouri (Mr. Smith). We will pass a series of bills to rein in the IRS and bring much-needed accountability to this broken and dysfunctional agency.

We will take steps to end the politicization of the IRS, which has illegally and intentionally targeted conservative Americans.

We will vote to eliminate the IRS slush fund--and I call it a slush fund--that has allowed this agency to skirt congressional authority.

We will vote to make sure that IRS employees are held to the same standards as the taxpayers by firing those who are delinquent in their own taxes.

These are commonsense steps that need to be taken, but we cannot truly solve these problems and bring real change to the Internal Revenue Service under the current leadership of Commissioner John Koskinen.

Mr. Koskinen has blatantly lied under oath and misled congressional investigators. He has supported Lois Lerner's track record of deceit and obstruction. It is time for him to go.

As a cosponsor of legislation to impeach Commissioner Koskinen, I call on congressional leaders to bring that bill forward as well.

American taxpayers deserve much better than they are getting, and we need to turn the page on Mr. Koskinen's failed leadership.

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