Levin Statement on GOP Resolution Calling for IRS Special Counsel

The following press release was published by the U.S. Congress Committee on Ways and Means on May 2, 2014. It is reproduced in full below.

WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after House Republicans said they will vote next week on a resolution calling on the Department of Justice to appoint a special counsel for the IRS investigation:

“Another day, another desperate Republican effort to dredge up a political scandal even after a year of evidence has proven otherwise. The IRS has spent more than $14 million in taxpayer money accommodating Republican requests, turning over more than 600,000 pages of documents, none of which substantiate the GOP’s wild attempt from the get-go to tar the administration."

Source: U.S. Congress Committee on Ways and Means