the president has been very forthright and have strongly condemning that type of action as the entire administration has as has mr. lew. ask the questions, get the facts. ten we can draw our rogue conclusions. thank you, mr. brady is recognized. chairman, thank you for getting to the truth in this scandal. let s look at one of the tea party groups in my community. the founder, a small business 1, originally filed for tax exempt status in july, 2010. fully, 20 months later, in february, 2012, she received a letter from the irs with a lot of questions, intrusive. she answered every one of them and returned it well within the two-week time limit. now two years to the day she
filed her application is still pending. but let s look at what happened to her in the three years since she applied, beginning in december, 2010, shelves fist visited by the fbi domestic terrorism unit. her personal returns and her business returns were both audited by the irs. she received four fbi inquiries. and her business received unsolicit itted audit, unscheduled audits by osha in the atf twice. now, this is a citizen and a small business woman who had never been audited by the irs or any of these agencies until she applied to you for tax exempt status for her tea party. the broader question here, is this still america? is this government so drunk on power that it would turn its