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Griffin: The Obama Administration's Attempts to Restrict Inconvenient Voices "Cannot be Allowed to Go Forward'

Statement

Date: Feb. 26, 2014
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Taxes

Congressman Tim Griffin (AR-02), a member of the Ways and Means Committee, issued the following statement after the House passed the Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act (H.R. 3865):

"When the IRS was caught discriminating against conservative groups, Obama Administration officials said it was all a misunderstanding and certainly not political. Similarly, they said new regulations governing 501(c)(4)s were proposed in order to prevent confusion with the law--but it just so happens they would actually reverse more than five decades of policy and muzzle nonprofit groups the White House disagrees with politically. Now, thanks to internal emails from Treasury and IRS officials uncovered through our Committee's investigation, we know the real story. The Obama Administration's attempts to change the law and restrict inconvenient voices cannot be allowed to go forward, and that's why I supported this bill."


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