Democrat Rep. Maloney, slams inspector general over IRS scandal: Your audit was a ‘smear’
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Holding up documents at a House Oversight Committee hearing, Maloney said a training manual clearly stated IRS screeners should be on the lookout for both liberal and conservative groups.
“So they were training, according to their own training manual, that they were to look for ‘progressive’ when they were looking for this quote political activity,” she continued. “I think it is very clear that in their training manual they were saying look for political activity — Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, and tea party and progressive. Did you have this training manual? Did you ever see this training manual?”
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“I cannot believe you called for an audit that only looked at ‘tea party’ when you know that there is a whole array of political activity,” Maloney said. “That’s called targeting, that’s called going after people. Some Republicans in their public statements, and I have a list of them, have tried to smear the president and said he did this and he did that. I would say that your audit tried to smear, I don’t know who, but someone or blame someone by excluding a whole swath of the political establishment.”
The congresswoman told George that eighth graders could have conducted a better audit. She said it was common sense to investigate how groups on both the right and left were treated by the IRS.
video, courtesy of C-SPAN, below
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/18/democrat-slams-inspector-general-over-irs-scandal-your-audit-was-a-smear/
Great job Rep. Maloney! Issa needs to be investigated
Rep. Elijah Cummings let's him have it too, whoa was he mad!
video at link
"I was feeling pretty good until your last statement," said a visibly angry Cummings in the suddenly silent hearing room. "You call balls and strikes; we call balls and strikes. The 700,000 people who sent me to this Congress did not send me here just to sit and listen. They didn't do that. And if I have questions, I'm going to ask them."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/18/irs-scandal-report-russell-george_n_3619102.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
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Rep Carolyn Maloney D-NY 
for ripping the Treasury Inspector a new one!
Please proceed!
Thanks cal
She's always awesome
Mass here~
Good for you to have Carolyn Maloney...
from Long Island
I see why you are so proud of her~
Maloney Receives Public Service Award from Consumer Federation of America
Queens Gazette - Congressmember Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) received the Philip Hart Public Service Award on June 26 from the Consumer Federation of America at their 43rd Annual Awards Dinner at the Capital Hilton in honor of her work on consumer banking issues, including the Credit CARD Act (introduced as the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights).
“I am so honored and grateful to receive this prestigious award from the Consumer Federation of America,” Maloney said. “Passing the Credit CARD Act, which saves consumers $10 billion a year, is one of my proudest achievements in Congress and it could never have happened without the support of the Consumer Federation of America and other consumer organizations. The way we worked together on it is a perfect model for the way representational government really should work and I look forward to continuing our efforts to protect consumers.”
Rachel Weintraub, legislative director and senior counsel for Consumer Federation of America said, “For more than two decades, Representative Maloney has worked in Congress to improve protections for consumers of financial services. Importantly, as a leader of the House Financial Services Committee, she introduced and championed the Credit CARD Act, which provided much needed disclosures and protections for credit card users. Due to her consumer protection leadership and work, Consumer Federation of America is pleased to honor her with the Philip Hart Public Service Award which is awarded to outstanding public servants who have made significant contributions by improving the marketplace, eliminating fraud, promoting consumer health and safety and providing consumer information.”
http://www.carolynmaloney.com/
She reminds me of our Senator Elizabeth Warren! Great to get these remarkable women to Washington!
We need more
GOTV 2014
