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January 11th, 2023
This week Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 23, the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act, legislation he introduced with Reps...
May 20th, 2022
I recently introduced the Rural Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Accountability Act to make tax filing easier for Americans who live in rural areas and to provide much needed oversight of the IRS.
January 19th, 2022
Instead of helping taxpayers get their refunds, this President is prioritizing a dangerous bank surveillance scheme and unleashing 80,000 IRS agents on families, farmers, and small businesses who they are convinced are tax...
July 30th, 2021
We have a duty in Congress to protect our constituents from potential IRS abuse and I am proud to say that my amendment will make sure things like the Lois Lerner targeting scandal never happen again at the IRS.
July 8th, 2021
I am encouraged by the IRS’s decision to reverse course and grant Christians Engaged 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, and I congratulate Bunni Pounds and First Liberty on this hard fought victory for religious freedom.
July 2nd, 2019
Yesterday, as the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady, I released the followed statement after President Donald J. Trump signed H.R. 3151, the Taxpayer First Act:
May 10th, 2018
Everyone knows the IRS needs to be reformed from top to bottom. From absurd wait times when calling the IRS, to property seizure abuse, this is an agency that desperately needs to be reined in and restructured to actually...
April 20th, 2018
Recently, the House passed multiple bills to redesign the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for the first time in over two decades. I released the following statement:
September 6th, 2016
Today’s Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people receive every day. Be one of them.I’ll grant you: I’d rather be contacted by shysters pretending to be the IRS than by the actual IRS.But it’s still...
April 14th, 2016
The Research and Technology Subcommittee today held a hearing to hear from IRS Commissioner John Koskinen following a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that highlights severe cybersecurity vulnerabilities...
December 28th, 2022
Representative Jodey Arrington (TX-19) released the following statement upon the House’s passage of legislation that would overturn decades of privacy protections for average Americans:
April 26th, 2022
On Tuesday, I sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) condemning the agency’s lax oversight of tax-exempt organizations and demanding reforms to the financial reporting requirements for these groups.
October 27th, 2021
If the price tag for their socialist policies weren’t alarming enough, what’s hidden inside the bill should truly horrify all Americans.
July 29th, 2021
I spoke on the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives recently to encourage my colleagues to support my proposed amendment to H.R. 4502. The amendment would prevent the IRS from further targeting of people or...
June 2nd, 2020
The block organizer is doing, and has been doing, what he is most capable of doing: creating havoc by organizing resistance groups to commit violence, threaten Rule of Law. There is no place for this and no attorney should...
August 8th, 2018
As many of you are aware, Obama used the IRS to go after right-of-center organizations and deprive them of 501c3 approvals, and to punish companies who were right leaning. This may have been disconcerting for you, but there...
April 23rd, 2018
Identity theft is a problem across the United States. It affects millions of Americans each year.
April 19th, 2018
I released the following statement applauding the passage of a bipartisan package to make bold reforms to the Internal Revenue Service:
April 27th, 2016
Last week’s flooding was devastating for many families in the Houston area. Our emergency responders and local officials deserve thanks for responding quickly to save the lives of those stranded by high waters. Local...
December 17th, 2015
Today I joined fellow lawmakers in sponsoring a resolution to impeach Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen.