Oversight
As prepared for delivery “At the height of the COVID pandemic, government lockdowns shuttered Main Street businesses and kept American…
Read More (Chairman Smith Opening Statement: Markup of H.R. 1163, the Protecting Taxpayers and Victims of Unemployment Fraud Act)WASHINGTON, DC – Nineteen months after a massive leak of confidential taxpayer information was published by ProPublica, the American people…
Read More (Smith Demands Timely and Public Answers from IRS Watchdog on Investigation into Leak of Taxpayer Private Data)Washington, D.C. – Restoring public trust and accountability to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) must be a top priority for…
Read More (Smith: IRS Chief Nominee Must Answer to Taxpayers About Biden’s Middle-Class Audits, Agency Political Leaks, and Historic Tax Refund Backlog)WASHINGTON, DC – After the IRS failed to fulfill a request by Congress’s top tax panel to inform the agency’s more…
Read More (Smith: IRS’s Failure to Support Whistleblower Pathway Deepens Public Mistrust of the Agency)WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) must stop colluding with the Biden Administration to enact…
Read More (Smith: OECD Must Stop Colluding with Biden Administration to Surrender American Sovereignty)Washington, D.C. – Rather than keep Congress waiting for the Biden Administration’s plans for how it will use $80 billion…
Read More (Smith to Yellen: Do Not Delay Testifying About Biden’s Spending and Tax Plans)Washington, DC – In another instance of President Biden violating his pledge not to use the newly supercharged IRS against…
Read More (Smith: Biden’s War on Working Class Intensifies with Supercharged IRS Stepping Up Enforcement Against Tipped Service Workers)Washington, DC – After President Biden once again declared “the watchdogs are back” during the State of the Union yesterday, a hearing…
Read More (Ways and Means Republicans Seek Answers on Hundreds of Billions in Fraudulent Unemployment Benefits)Washington, D.C. -The House Committee on Ways and Means tomorrow will hold a hearing titled, “The Greatest Theft of Taxpayer…
Read More (Ways and Means to Hold Hearing on The Greatest Theft of Taxpayer Dollars: Unchecked Unemployment Fraud)WASHINGTON, DC – As part of the Ways and Means Republicans ongoing aggressive oversight of the Biden Administration and the Internal Revenue Service…
Read More (Smith Demands Answers from IRS on $80 Billion Middle Class Audits Plan)