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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 ....
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 t ....
She was visited by the epa or the texas equivalent to the epa doing an investigation. She was visited by the atf and harassed by the atf. Of course, she was harassed by the irs on numerous occasions. All she wanted was what every other organization thats trying to exercise the First Amendment wants and deserves as a taxexempt. Because of that, as the chairman has said, the right to exercise the First Amendment is there primarily so citizens can criticize government and not be afraid of government harassing them through their use of government administrative bureaucrats. All of these things happened to her. Fbi, osha, epa, atf, irs harassed her because of exercising her First Amendment right, and i appreciate the fact that the witnesses are here to tell us how government oppressed them for exercising that. I would yiel ....
Yesterday. Israel saying it will investigate that. Claiming hostile fire was coming from the school. Hamas uses human shields to protect its weapons in those schools. John huddy live near the border. John, we hear another u. N. School may have been hit. What can we report about that . Reporter well, yeah, bill and patti ann, were hearing that possibly the target was a mosque next to the school but the school took fire as well. Were not hearing of any deaths at this point but were hearing of a lot of injuries, including many children who were rushed to the hospital. This happened earlier today in the northern part of gaza and as you mentioned of course this comes a day after another u. N. Run school, these schools have been serving as shelters, was also hit by artillery fire. 17 people died yesterday. And that, in that fire and also dozens of others were injured including children as well. This is why there is growing pressure for a ceasefire agreement, for both sides to come to some ki ....