them to investigate various groups that they said were seeking tax exempt status but were improperly involved in politics now

them to investigate various groups that they said were seeking tax exempt status but were improperly involved in politics now

if not thousands of organizations seeking tax exempt status to play in political campaigns the

in October of twenty ten you send a letter to the IRS in which you talked about going

in October of twenty ten you send a letter to the IRS in which you talked about going after groups

for tax exempt status that at exactly that point with them name progress in their names I

senator Durbin just briefly why not because we were now in the mess that we're in because of political targeting why

that you were one of four senators who refused to sign a letter in October and the first

%HESITATION investigation on this but there were some %HESITATION were critical of this question saying that they were had a political bent to it specifically a

they know a lot of people the doubters they said well you know you have been in politics for ten years in a decade you

but they pay in taxes they pay twenty four billion dollars in tax if you really believe they pay they basically to carry on state and

then why are they in favor of cigarette taxes why are they in favor of a carbon tax why are they in favor they say of lower in the corporate tax because

but you only mentioned one specifically by name and I want to put up this from the October twenty ten letter that you wrote to the IRS one

not send five hundred million dollars in taxpayer funds the Planned Parenthood but they were nowhere to be found they were in witness protection and

understood in that in the context of five a one C. force as political activity what does what is political activity meat and in effect what the

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