Later, the irs commissioner testifies. Our issue spotlight programming begins with tea party and other groups. Patriotsof the testified that they were filingd by the irs after for tax exempt status. This portion of the hearing is about one hour. Good morning. My name is catherine. A nonprofitrman of organization. Thank you for the opportunity to share my story. Citizens just like me are being targeted right administration willing to take any action necessary to silence opposition. I am an average american who prior to 2009 had never been active in the processes of government. Volunteering to work in the polls in 2009, i saw procedural problems. That grew into a national movement. Before getting involved and spoke out for the government stands in contrast to the life i now lead. Person,ll business participating in my church, the government collected my taxes and left me and my family. Myself a target of this federal government. After filing forms to establish taxexempt organizations, an
They fail to identify shortfalls in resources and take action to obtain the Additional Resources they have needed. And they fail to set the standards for honesty and integrity and quash the culture of self protection and retaliation. As you would expect, weve made a number of leadership changes in the field and at the Central Office. To help address our immediate concerns, we brought in former v. A. Undersecretary for health, dr. Jonathan perlin, for a short tour duty as senior advisor. And we brought in v. A. General counsel lee bradley to help sort through v. A. s responsibility in taking action against those accused of god wrongdoing or managerial negligence. Since may 1, 2014, we have taken over 30 personnel actions, and investigations are ongoing. Two members of the Senior Executive service have resigned or retired. Three members of the Senior Executive service have been placed on administrative leave pending the results of investigations. Over two dozen Health Care Professionals
Sharia is based upon one principle in particular called the principle of abrogation. What came last governs. As you may note, the ark of his life went from the period in which he was in mecca and receiving direction from allah through relevations that were teaching people to be tolerant and respectable of people in the book, christians and jews. It was at that point that he had no power and not much ability to do anything else. You saw a tactical approach that was accommodationist. He was driven out and went to medina and became rich and powerful and a leader of an army. The revelations from allah were all about destroying the people of the book, most especially the jews. In other infidels. As to the question whether this ideology is bankrupt, let me share with you how these guys are doing it. In addition to what i showed you, where they are operating here. You can argue it is listed as here. These are the sort of things our government has done to help a number of these jihadist groups
That took three to four years and in some cases is still not over. Number two, the line agents in the irs had their work disrupted and halted by washington. In 2010, true the volt filed its application for c 3 status and did not obtain that c 3 status until we sued the irs. So in september they granted it. People shouldnt have to sue to get their taxexempt status. When lois lerner and president obama accused line agents in cincinnati of being responsible, ladies and gentlemen, that is a lie. I knew when lois lerner said that in may of 2010, when she admitted that it was happening, after we knew it was happening its sort of like we knew we were targeted its just that she finally admitted it. I knew it hadnt happened in cincinnati because the first time i really became aware of this was with a group that i represent. We filed for taxexempt status in october of 2009. Besides cashing our check for our filing fee, we did not hear from the irs again until june of 2010 and we didnt hear from
Threat to our government to study the founding documents and advocate for responsible spending . Out copies of the constitution, discussing pending legislation or even creating legislative scorecards a threat to the administration . Legislation or even creating legislative score cards a threat to this administration . Obviously these activities are viewed as subversive to their agenda. Otherwise, they wouldnt have tried to stop us. In my previous testimony i explained that our application was complete and accurate. We easily qualified for a 501 c 4 status, yet that did not stop the irs from demanding information they were not entitled to. Unconstitutional requests that violated even their own rules. The information they demanded from us had nothing to do with our tax status. Why must the irs know who is coming to our meetings . Why did they need to have copies of every speech ever given and the credentials of those speakers . Why did they need to know who our donors were . Theres clear