A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate condemning the targeting of Tea Party groups by the Internal Revenue Service and calling for an investigation.
Latest action · Jun 4, 2013 Referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3960)
Progress
Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried. A simple resolution is the business of one chamber alone: it is not sent to the other chamber or to the President, and does not become law.
- IntroducedJun 4, 2013
- Agreed to in SenateNot reached
Summary
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) engaged in discriminatory behavior, (2) Congress should use existing authority to investigate potential criminal wrongdoing by individuals who authorized or were involved in targeting people based on their political views and to determine if other entities were involved in or were aware of the discrimination and did not take action to stop the actions of the IRS, and (3) President Obama should terminate the employment of individuals responsible for targeting and willfully discriminating against Tea Party groups and other conservative groups.
Condemns the actions of all individuals and entities involved in the infringement of the First Amendment rights of members of the Tea Party and other affected groups.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 4, 2013Introduced in Senate
- Jun 4, 2013Referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3960)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.
- Congressional oversight
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Department of the Treasury
- Federal officials
- First Amendment rights
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- Political movements and philosophies
- Political parties and affiliation
- Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
- Tax-exempt organizations
- Taxation
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 4, 2013Introduced in Senate
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