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June 2013

June 9, 2013

Washington D.C. —Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Committee Chairman Darrell Issa with new information about the Committee's six-hour transcribed interview with a self-identified "conservative Republican" manager who led a team of IRS screeners in Cincinnati as they reviewed applications by Tea Party groups for tax exempt status.


June 6, 2013
Washington, DCToday, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa requesting that he honor his commitment to hold a public hearing with Ambassador Thomas Pickering and other members of the Accountability Review Board (ARB) within the next two weeks now that Pickering has complied with Issa's subpoena and answered questions at a closed-door deposition.

June 6, 2013
Opening Statement
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member
Hearing on "Collected and Wasted:
The IRS Spending Culture and Conference Abuses"
June 6, 2013
Thank you, Mr.

June 4, 2013

Washington, DC (June 4, 2013) – Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement regarding the Committee's closed-door deposition of Ambassador Pickering regarding the Accountability Review Board's review of the attacks in Benghazi:


June 2, 2013

Washington, DC –Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement regarding Chairman Issa's claim on national television this morning that interviews with workers in the IRS Cincinnati office show targeting of conservative groups was a problem that was coordinated out of Washington headquarters: