instaPoll: Do you believe the Prevent IRS Overreach Act is a necessary step in ensuring protection for the American people?

Last Friday, Lois Lerner, Director of the Exempt Organizations Division at the IRS, apologized for the Agency requiring certain conservative groups to submit excessive paperwork regarding their 501(c)(4) tax exempt status.  Her apology was issued just days before the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) was scheduled to release its oversight report of IRS activities.  This report not only confirmed that the IRS was in fact targeting conservative organizations, but that this has been going on since 2010.  Groups with the word "patriot" in their names, and those with the mission of "educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights" have been subjected to enhanced scrutiny in their applications for tax exempt status.  The TIGTA report indicated that 160 applications were open from 206 to 1,138 days, some more than three years and crossing two election cycles.                The Department of Justice launched an investigation in conjunction with the FBI, and the House Ways and Means Committee is holding a hearing today to further investigate this matter and bring to light why these groups were targeted.  While these investigations are pending, and Americans are calling into question the integrity of what should be a non-partisan, non-political government agency, I have introduced the Prevent IRS Overreach Act, H.R.1993, to prohibit the IRS from hiring any personnel for the purpose of implementing the healthcare law.  Read more about this bill here. Question of the week:  Do you believe the Prevent IRS Overreach Act is a necessary step in ensuring protection for the American people? (  ) Yes. (  ) No. (  ) I don't know. (  ) Other. Take the instaPoll here. Find the results of last week's instaPoll here.

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