House to target IRS with series of bills

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The Hill:

The House plans to vote by the end of the month on a series of bills in response to the IRS scandal, including one proposal that would allow people to record conversations between themselves and federal employees, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Tuesday.

While the Republican-led House has held numerous oversight hearings in recent months, votes on the package of bills would be the first legislative response to the IRS’s disclosure that it inappropriately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status for greater scrutiny.

 

“The public is feeling a growing sense of distrust of what this administration and what Washington is doing,” Cantor told reporters Tuesday. “And that’s why we in the House this month will be taking up a package of bills to stop this government abuse and put the American people first.

“We should be empowering the American people,” he added. “We should be about holding bureaucrats in Washington accountable, because this town is supposed to work for the people, and not the other way around.”

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House Republicans look to slash IRS budget by $3 billion

 

 

House Republicans are pushing legislation that would slash the IRS's budget by $3 billion for its "inappropriate actions" in targeting political groups.

The bill would place several additional restrictions on spending at the embattled agency and prohibit employees from implementing the individual mandate in ObamaCare.

The fiscal 2014 spending bill released by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) would allocate $9 billion for the IRS, which is $4 billion below President Obama's budget request and more than $3 billion less than what House Republicans pushed last year. The agency received $12 billion in fiscal 2013.

 

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/appropriations/309793-house-republicans-look-to-slash-irs-budget