{"id":1976,"date":"2013-05-16T15:10:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T15:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2013-05-16T15:10:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T15:10:44","slug":"senate-democrats-block-rand-pauls-resolution-condemning-the-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/05\/16\/senate-democrats-block-rand-pauls-resolution-condemning-the-irs\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats block Rand Paul\u2019s resolution condemning the IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats have decided that holding the Internal Revenue Service accountable is not a priority right now.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday the Democratic leadership in the chamber blocked a resolution by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to investigate the federal agency and fire all people responsible for improperly targeting conservative organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Obama should terminate the individuals responsible for targeting and willfully discriminating against Tea Party groups and other conservative groups,\u201d the resolution states.<\/p>\n<p>His resolution also demanded an investigation \u201cto determine if other entities in the administration of President Obama were involved in or were aware of the discrimination and did not take action to stop the actions of the Internal Revenue Service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The freshman senator asserted that he introduced the legislation to protect the First Amendment rights of the American people, and not to drive attention to the partisan nature of the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis resolution is not about Republican vs. Democrat or conservative vs. liberal,\u201d Paul said in a statement. \u201cIt is about arrogant and unrestrained government vs. the rule of law. The First Amendment cannot and should not be renegotiated depending on which party holds power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full article: <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/redalertpolitics.com\/2013\/05\/15\/senate-democrats-block-rand-pauls-resolution-condemning-the-irs\/\" href=\"http:\/\/redalertpolitics.com\/2013\/05\/15\/senate-democrats-block-rand-pauls-resolution-condemning-the-irs\/\">http:\/\/redalertpolit \u2026 -condemning-the-irs\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats have decided that holding the Internal Revenue Service accountable is not a priority right now. On Tuesday the Democratic leadership in the chamber blocked a resolution by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to investigate the federal agency and fire all people responsible for improperly targeting conservative organizations. \u201cPresident Obama should terminate the individuals responsible for targeting and willfully discriminating against Tea Party groups and other conservative groups,\u201d the resolution states. His resolution also demanded an investigation \u201cto determine if other entities in the administration of President Obama were involved in or were aware of the discrimination and did not take action to stop the actions of the Internal Revenue Service.\u201d The freshman senator asserted that he introduced the legislation to protect the First Amendment rights of the American people, and not to drive attention to the partisan nature of the scandal. \u201cThis resolution is not about Republican vs. Democrat or conservative vs. liberal,\u201d Paul said in a statement. \u201cIt is about arrogant and unrestrained government vs. the rule of law. The First Amendment cannot and should not be renegotiated depending on which party holds power.\u201d Full article: http:\/\/redalertpolit \u2026 -condemning-the-irs\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[926,1425],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-irs","tag-rand-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}