Thank you, madam chair. On want to get gavelled on. Well, you have 28 more seconds if you wish to continue. No. I will get some credit out of you. Oh, need your credit, thats true. Now were going to complete this first panel, which started a very long time ago, seems like yesterday. And were going to do it this way. Im going to give senator whitehouse take my two minutes. Senator vitter okay . Senate inhoff, senator sessions and then ill close. Everybody has two more minutes, okay . So lets start with senator whitehouse. Ill just take a little bit of my time to respond to senator sessions suggestions that one scientist says that Climate Change isnt really happening and that there really isnt an association with storms. And i just want to put that into context. There actually is a Peer Reviewed Scientific Consensus out there about this. It is massive. It is not unanimous. Sometimes is rarely unanimous. There are eccentrics. There are outliers. There are people who have nonmainstream opi
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
Denied, though. In addition, the committees investigation into this matter revealed the irs also sought out liberal groups with these words, progressive or occupy in the names. At an Oversight Committee hearing last year Russell George admitted he actually failed to inform our committee that he was aware of progressive groups receiving similar treat as conservative groups. Ms. Mitchell, you favored us with your testimony this morning. Thanks again for coming. We just found out about you monday afternoon. We didnt have too much time to read about you. I saw your extensive cv which is on line, and its it has you as a partner at the Foley Lardner law firm in washington. Is that right . Correct. And it says you are a member of the firms political law practice. Is that correct . Correct. The firm has a taxation practice thats different from the political law practice. Correct. Youre in the political law practice. If im not mistaken, you have personally served as Legal Counsel to the Nationa
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