Dems Vote Unanimously To Kill Amendments to Protect Americans From IRS 2014-03-03 | Debra Heine | Breitbart
This
morning, Sen. Cruz offered two amendments in the Judiciary Committee to
safeguard citizens’ free speech against unlawful and unjust targeting
and designations by the Internal Revenue Service. He brought to light
the disturbing hypocrisy of Democrats who all objected to the IRS's
abuses when the scandal first broke, but are now playing defense for the IRS.
“Nearly nine months ago, President Obama declared the IRS’s illegal
targeting of conservative groups ‘intolerable and inexcusable,’ yet his
administration has authored a new rule to specifically limit free speech
for many of those groups, which are classified as ‘social welfare’
organizations,”
Sen. Cruz stated. “Free speech is not a partisan issue.
The IRS has no business meddling with the First Amendment rights of
Americans. Rather than further stifling free speech, the IRS and the
Department of Justice should provide the American people with all the
facts surrounding the IRS’s targeting of certain organizations based on their political activity. We should all agree the IRS should not be used as a tool for partisan warfare.” Democrats on the Judiciary Committee unanimously defeated both of Cruz's proposals. Sen.
Cruz' first amendment would have prohibited an IRS employee from
intentionally targeting individuals or groups based on political views.
It would have made it a crime for an IRS employee to willfully
discriminate against groups based solely on the political beliefs or
policy statements held, expressed, or published by that organization. –
Now one could ask “WHY”! ….but we all know!
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