Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 5/22/16

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CALENDAR: The House comes back into session on Monday, May 23, and will be in session through Thursday, with last votes expected no later than 3 PM. Then the House will take the following week off for the Memorial Day District Work Period, and return on Tuesday, June 7. The Senate will return to session…

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Aides, State Department officials tied to Hillary Clinton email scandal facing deposition

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Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch this week begins a series of interviews with numerous aides and State Department officials tied to Hillary Clinton when she was serving as secretary of state, including deposing Bryan Pagliano – the information technology specialist who managed Clinton’s email system – and Huma Abedin, who was Clinton’s then-right-hand-woman when Clinton began…

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House Judiciary Committee to examine alleged misconduct of Obama’s IRS Commissioner John Koskinen

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Members of the House Judiciary committee are scheduled to look over findings of the congressional investigation into President Obama’s IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who is accused of false testimony; failing to notify Congress key evidence was missing in the scandal that slow-rolled conservative Americans’ tax-exempt-status applications; and, among other things, for failing to comply with…

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Jenny Beth Martin tells Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg what’s on her mind

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“What’s on your mind?” It’s the question that appears on the status update of every personal Facebook account and is written in large letters atop the famous “Facebook wall” at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, California – and it’s not a question Tea Party Patriots Co-Founder Jenny Beth Martin shied away from answering Wednesday…

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IRS Timeline Print Page

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The Internal Revenue Service has illegally targeted Tea Party groups and individuals with every means at their disposal. When the truth was brought to light, investigation into the IRS' practices and the people responsible was obstructed at every turn. This timeline collects all the events in the long struggle against the IRS' targeting – see…Read More

Follow Rep. Roskam’s lead in protecting the First Amendment and demand his IRS legislation gets a vote!

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The “Preventing IRS Abuse and Protecting Free Speech Act” (H.R. 5053), which would prohibit the IRS from demanding those who donate to nonprofit charities reveal their identities in annual returns, was introduced in April by Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Illinois) but needs a floor vote in the House of Representatives. “In the…

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