groups. "post" reports additional irs employees in washington, d.c., and out in california also looked at the tea party groups to determine their eligibility for tax exemption. the irs says steven miller who's been serving as acting commissioner since last fall was told this has been happening, well, was happening back in may of 2012, about a year after lois lerner who oversees that division was informed herself. miller wrote in "usa today" in an op-ed piece in part, quote, we should have done a better job of handling the influx of applications by advocacy groups. mistakes were made but in no way due to political or partisan motivation. he also said there was a shortcut taken in our processes to determine which groups needed atigsal review. the mistakes we made were due to absence of sufficient process for working the increase in cases and a lack of sensitivity to the implications of some of the decisions that were made. senator sherrod brown is a democrat from ohio and member of the banking and finance committees. senator brown, does this cover it, lack of sensitivity when you see patriot and tea party on the name of a group and you don't