IRS Official who oversaw
unit targeting Tea party now heads ObamaCare office
Fox News – 5/16/2013
The acknowledgement comes
after the administration announced that the official’s successor -- who had
only been on the job a few days -- would be retiring. And it fueled criticism
of the agency, as the outgoing IRS commissioner prepared to face lawmakers’ questions
at a hearing Friday morning.
“Stunning. Just stunning,”
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said in reaction to the latest
development.
The ObamaCare official in
question, Sarah Hall Ingram, had been serving as commissioner of the office
responsible for tax-exempt organizations from 2009 to 2012 -- the division
included the group that targeted Tea Partiers -- and has since left to serve as
director of the IRS' Affordable Care Act division. That unit is responsible for
enforcing parts of the health care law, including the fines associated with the
so-called individual mandate -- the requirement to buy health insurance.
Allegations that the IRS had
been targeting conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status date back
years but a government report released this week backed up the claims.
"Americans are right to
be angry about it, and I am angry about it," Obama said.
Republican leaders were
quick to call out Obama for being too passive with the situation and demanded
more be done.
"This is runaway
government at its worst," McConnell said Thursday. "Who knows who
they will target next? The truth will come out. It always does."
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