INSANE: GOP Senator Targeted by Lerner Ways and Means Investigation Uncovers Push to Audit Senator Chuck Grassley

Photo Credit: Gage SkidmoreBy Sarah Swinehart.

Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of conservative individuals includes a sitting United States Senator. According to emails reviewed by the Committee under its Section 6103 authority, which allows the Committee to review confidential taxpayer information, Lois Lerner sought to have Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) referred for IRS examination.

“We have seen a lot of unbelievable things in this investigation, but the fact that Lois Lerner attempted to initiate an apparently baseless IRS examination against a sitting Republican United States Senator is shocking,” said Camp. “At every turn, Lerner was using the IRS as a tool for political purposes in defiance of taxpayer rights…

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Photo Credit: TownHallBREAKING: Lois Lerner Asked IRS to Audit Republican Senator Chuck Grassley

By Katie Pavlich.

According to emails released by the House Ways and Means Committee late Wednesday, former head of tax exempt groups at the IRS Lois Lerner wasn’t only referring conservative groups for targeting, but Republican Senator Charles Grassley as well.

Lerner mistakenly received an invitation to speak at event that was intended for Grassley, opened it, didn’t forward it to the proper recipient (Grassley) and then asked that he be referred for to the IRS for examination (audit).

“We have seen a lot of unbelievable things in this investigation, but the fact that Lois Lerner attempted to initiate an apparently baseless IRS examination against a sitting Republican United States Senator is shocking,” Chairman Dave Camp said in a statement. “At every turn, Lerner was using the IRS as a tool for political purposes in defiance of taxpayer rights…

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