House Ways and Means Committee Passes Bills to Reform IRS

Many of the bills came in response to the still-simmering scandal over the extra scrutiny that the IRS's Exempt Organizations unit gave to applications for Section 501 4 tax-exempt status from groups with terms like 'Tea Party' in their names, and the protracted search for emails from the former director of the unit, Lois Lerner. One of the bills, H.R. 1152, would prohibit officers and employees of the IRS from using personal email accounts to conduct official business.

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