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Mitch PerryDecember 7, 2017

Vern Buchanan is now the first member of Congress to call for a federal court to unseal secret testimony from former IRS senior executive Lois Lerner. Lerner and her immediate subordinate, Holly Paz, emerged as two key figures after it was discovered in 2013 that the IRS had given extra scrutiny to hundreds of conservative groups seeking nonprofit […]

Mitch PerryOctober 30, 2017

Vern Buchanan still wants heads to roll at the Internal Revenue Service. Nearly two months after Donald Trump‘s Justice Department announced plans to charge former IRS official Lois Lerner over her role in the Tea Party targeting scandal, the Sarasota Republican congressman said the DOJ should reevaluate that position, following the news that the IRS officials admitted to […]

Mitch PerryMarch 23, 2015

South Florida Democratic Congressman Patrick Murphy has formally declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in Florida in 2016. “It just boils down to where I think being in the U.S. Senate, we can really have a great impact,” Murphy told Florida Politics late Sunday afternoon, giving his first interview since declaring he is a […]

Bob SparksJune 16, 2014

For those of you who, like me, do not know Josh Earnest, send a kind thought his way today and in the coming days. Earnest is the new White House spokesman, taking over for Jay Carney. Carney got out just in time because the IRS scandal is about to detonate. Expect to hear “operative statement” […]

Tag: Lois Lerner

Vern Buchanan wants Lois Lerner’s secret testimony in IRS scandal unsealed

Vern Buchanan still wants ‘heads to roll’ in IRS targeting scandal

Patrick Murphy announces U.S. Senate bid

Bob Sparks: ‘Operative statement’ on IRS scandal about to change