Lawmakers have been given a half-day to read through the Democratic leadership’s 2,741-page spending bill before voting, prompting some members to throw up their hands and call for the government to shut down instead of approving the $1.5 trillion legislation.
make a lot better videos for free than you do spending the kind of money that the irs employees did to put on costumes and make goofs of themselves. but that aside, it s a serious question of a squandering of taxpayer dollars alongside this very serious targeting of these groups and a real evidence now from this new interviews with these two cincinnati employees that there was real pressure to find and come up with certain cases to scrutinize and hold up for delay and etc. so it s really a combination of both one is silly, one is quite staggering, but added up together it s a growing scandal, and it s getting closer up the chain to headquarters in washington no matter what they say about conference spending. that s likely to be true because that has been watched over since the scandal at the general services administration. but it s the rest of the stuff. we don t know how far it went and when it stopped.
issues. we need to understand what happened, why would these conservative groups targeted? why was private, personal taxpayer information leaked? and also on a broader note, why is the irs wasting all this money, yet claiming they need more resources. navrkt in fact, secretary jack lew, i specifically asked him, is there any other area you can cut over at the irs? they re asking for another billion dollars in the fiscal year, aen additional billion dollars. he, of course, said no. well, the fact of the matter is, we ve seen compelling evidence of waste with the star trek video the gilligan s island video and the conference. all this conference spending, this lavish spending. so we re going to get to the bottom of all of this, through there s hearings andinterviews we re conducting. we mentioned two irs employees have been placed on leave. do you anticipate no more
the commander s name and it has never become public. the irs reports its punishing two staffers who went to a conference that cost taxpayers more than 4 million bucks. officials say it has to do with a party in a private suite where somebody apparently broke the rules about giving out free food. the source says the two staffers are now on leave and may end up loading their jobs. the inspector general says the anaheim get away was one of more than 200 conferences that cost us taxpayers $50 million. and gave us the entertaining video of irs workers learning to dance. but one senator says the administration put a much lower price tag on the events last year. mike emanuel is live for us on capitol hill. mike? well, shep, oklahoma senator tomko burn is demanding answers. coburn sent a letter last year to then treasury secretary tim geithner about conference spending. treasury official responded that the department had spent less than $500,000 now coburn wants an
the irs. right. well, for any bureaucracy, right, the videos and the costs and the story of the conference is just horrifying. for them. mind you, the obama administration had been cracking down on this before the scandal came out after the intend did tours were discovered in the conference spending by the gsa. so, there was already some movement against it. but this is the icing on the cake. for people who are arranges about the performance of the irs, this is kind of horrifying. shepard: the san fernando valley patriots gave up their attempt to get tax exempt status. everybody seems to understand you have to have some scrutiny of groups that get tax exempt status. if there weren t, that wouldn t work. but they have admitted this i over the top. some of the exchange in the testimony you heard in congress. some kind of challenge being placed that, look, you have to