Washington,
July 27, 2015
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Mary Carpenter
(202-834-0386)
Congressman Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (GA-01) joined Chairman Jason Chaffetz (UT-03) and members of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee today in calling for the immediate removal of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen from his position.
Click here to view or download Rep. Carter's call for Commissioner Koskinen's removal
Congress has been investigating the IRS's treatment of conservative tax-exempt groups for over two years. So far, Congress has reviewed more than a million pages of documents, conducted more than 50 transcribed interviews and held several public hearings. Despite this, the IRS has still not provided the answers to what happened to the Lois Lerner emails that were destroyed after a preservation order was given.
The IRS could have prevented the destruction of up to 24,000 relevant emails. Instead, Commissioner Koskinen has been unwilling to provide assistance, and has provided only misleading statements to Congress.
“I join Chairman Chaffetz and other members of this Committee today in calling for the President to remove Commissioner Koskinen,” Carter said. “Commissioner Koskinen has failed to comply with a Congressional subpoena, he has failed to produce, and more importantly preserve, over 24,000 emails. He has failed to tell the truth to this Congressional body. It is time for new leadership at the IRS. The American people deserve to have confidence in the IRS. We can only do that and we can only move forward by having new leadership. So I join my colleagues here in encouraging the President to remove the Commissioner so that we can move forward in restoring the trust in the IRS that the American people deserve.”
Carter also sent a letter to President Obama today with Chairman Chaffetz and 19 other members of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee providing evidence of the violations on the part of the IRS and Commissioner Koskinen in properly complying with both a congressional subpoena and its own internal preservation order. A copy of the letter can be viewed or downloaded here.
Click here to watch and download Carter's call for President Obama to remove IRS Commissioner Koskinen.
