House Judiciary Committee set to grill IRS commissioner over targeting scandal

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen is scheduled to be in the hot seat Wednesday during a 10 a.m. House Judiciary Committee meeting – the third in a series of hearings to probe the Obama appointee about his role in covering up the systematic agency targeting of Americans for their political beliefs. “Commissioner Koskinen will be the…

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Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 9/18/16

CALENDAR: The House will return on Tuesday, with first votes scheduled for 6:30 PM. They are scheduled to stay in town through Friday, with no votes after 3 PM. The Senate will return on Monday, with the first vote scheduled for 5:30 PM on a motion to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to…

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Tea Party Patriots Calls on the House to Impeach Koskinen Before Going on Vacation

Washington, DC – Tea Party Patriots CEO and co-founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today reacting to news of a deal on Capitol Hill that would delay a vote on impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.  “It has been six years since the targeting started. We who were targeted never received due process during…

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Sen. Cruz: Foreign nations void of free-speech protections have no place regulating U.S. internet use

  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in a Facebook post Tuesday invoked former President Reagan as he urged “colleagues on both sides of the aisle” to defend the internet against President Obama’s plans to cede control of it on Oct. 1 to an international organization that would inevitably leave the internet more vulnerable to censorship and…

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Jenny Beth Martin of IRS commissioner: ‘We want him impeached’

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Tea Party Patriots Co-Founder Jenny Beth Martin appeared on Fox News with Steve Doocy this morning to discuss the special resolution introduced Tuesday on the House floor demanding the impeachment of President Obama’s corrupt IRS Commissioner John Koskinen and why those at Tea Party Patriots in particular want to see the commissioner removed from his…Read More

Rep. Fleming: IRS commissioner’s actions ‘warrant impeachment, trial and removal…’

Member of the House Freedom Caucus Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) Tuesday said the actions of President Obama’s IRS Commissioner John Koskinen “warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office” for the role the commissioner played in covering up the IRS scandal that targeted Americans for their political beliefs and introduced under a privileged motion a resolution…Read More