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Scalise: "The IRS Is Out of Control"

April 21, 2016

WASHINGTON, DC –House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) today issued the following statement regarding House passage of H.R. 4885, the IRS Oversight While Eliminating Spending(OWES) Act, and H.R. 1206, the No Hires for the Delinquent IRS Act:

“The IRS is out of control. Report after report from independent watchdogs have documented an agency plagued by incompetence, abuse, and gross mismanagement. The agency charged with collecting taxes and enforcing the tax code should not have employees on their payroll who refuse to pay their own taxes. Nor should the IRS have a taxpayer slush fund that is immune from congressional oversight. Today the House took action to bring real accountability and transparency to the IRS so hard-working taxpayers are protected from the IRS’s abuses. I applaud the leadership of Reps. Smith and Rouzer for bringing accountability and transparency to an agency that is out of control.”