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September 2010 when lerner wrote of tax exempt social welfare groups known at 501 c 4s. she said, my guest is those who political activity never pay the tax on the activity, and we surely should be looking at that. wouldn t that be a surprising turn of events? my object is not to look for political activity, more to see whether self-declared c4s are really acting like c4s. so lerner did direct her unit to find out if social welfare groups were really into social welfare. no mention of conservatives, no mention of the tea party, no mention of messing around for democratic benefit. if you needed further evidence that lerner was not looking to target the right, issa also cites lerner s e-mail the next day. quote, we need to be cautious so it isn t per se a political project, more a c4 project that will look at levels of lobbying and political activity along with exempt activity. ....
Congressional committee. so lerner, of course, would go on to invoke her fifth amendment right and decline to answer any questions. later in the week we learned she was placed on administrative leave. the congressman who sits on the oversight committee, thank you for joining us. first of all, let s start with where the investigation stands right now. well, craig, i think there are a number of committees looking at it right now. i serve on the oversight government reform committee. we had one of those hearings this week. this is an issue where democrats and republicans are really pretty outraged about what is happening. the fact that americans can t be you know, confident because of these actions, that somehow they re targeting people for political purposes. that is completely wrong. and i think you saw in our committee and other committees democrats and republicans together unifying that we need to make sure, one, that this is resolved. but more importantly we move ....