Matt Gorman is the NRCC Rapid Response Director. Before joining the NRCC, he spent two years with the Romney for President campaign, eventually becoming the Deputy Rapid Response Director. He got his start in politics as an intern for Rep. Dave Camp. Matt is a 2011 graduate of Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.
New information has surfaced showing a link between the IRS improperly targeting conservative groups and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. In April 2008, the DCCC sent a letter to Lois Lerner, the now-infamous head of the IRS’s tax-exempt organizations division asking them to look into Freedom’s Watch, a conservative organization. Then, according to a recent ...
For many of us, work conferences involve stilted conversations, awkward name tags, and gluing your eyes to the clock. For the IRS, it includes subsidized baseball tickets, presidential suites, and presentations on “leadership through art.” USA Today is reporting this morning that between 2010 and 2012, the IRS spent $50 million on conferences between 2010 ...
In case you missed it, a few days ago Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told Congress “we are overachieving” on deficit reduction. That’s right. The current U.S. debt is $16.7 trillion, but don’t worry because “we are overachieving.” Yikes. Can you imagine what “underachieving” would look like? (House Financial Services Committee)
By now, most Americans have heard of Lois Lerner, the senior IRS official in charge of the tax-exempt office at the heart of the agency’s recent scandal. After planting a question to reveal the scandal and subsequently pleading the 5th during yesterday’s House committee hearing, she’s well on her way to becoming America’s favorite bureaucrat. ...
The IRS has been in the news recently for improperly targeting conservative groups. But it’s worth remembering that come next year, the IRS will have a “dominant role” in ObamaCare. You heard that right: the same agency that is currently under investigation for targeting ordinary Americans for their political beliefs will now act as ...
Today, senior IRS officials testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about their role in the agency improperly targeting conservative groups. Witnesses appearing before the committee included former IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman and Lois Lerner, the IRS’s Director of the Exempt Organizations division. Because, unlike us, you probably don’t have the time to sit ...
As senior IRS officials were on Capitol Hill today to testify about the agency’s recent scandal, BuzzFeed is reporting that TIGTA (Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration), or the body charged with investigating claims that the IRS was improperly targeting conservatives, delayed the report throughout 2012. Emails provided by the House Oversight and Government Reform ...
