Former IRS Director, Lois Lerner, Takes the Fifth AGAIN.

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Darrell Issa, Elijah Cummings, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, IRS Tea Party Targetings, Lois Lerner, Pleading the Fifth

Today’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in which former IRS director, Lois Lerner, was scheduled to testify turned into nothing short of a dog and pony show.

Rep. Darrell Issa asked Lerner several questions, which went unanswered by Lerner who plead the fifth nine times.  Clear that the questioning was going nowhere fast, Issa adjourned the meeting at which time, Rep. Elijah Cummings embarked on what appears to be a not so well scripted rant.

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Lois Lerner, the IRS figure at the center of the Tea Party targeting scandal, once again pleaded the Fifth on Wednesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In more than 20 minutes of testimony the former director of IRS exempt organizations refused to answer Committee Chairman Darrell Issa on nine different occasions. The hearing also ended with a bit of fireworks between Issa and Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings….

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Talk about a dog and pony show. Lerner should be thrown in a prison cell to rot for the duration of her life. Clearly, her presence at today’s hearing was part of the Progressive dog and pony show. Cummings ranted as if he was following a script. Therefore, we can expect the race card to be thrown about and Issa accused of “dissing” a black man because he is black. Yada, yada, yada.

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House Passes H.R. 4853 aka Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010

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Elijah Cummings, Estate tax, Government spending, Government Waste, H.R. 4853, Pelosi, Progressivism, Social Security Payroll Tax, Tax Credit, Tax Cuts, Taxes, Taxing the Wealthy, UNEMPLOYMENT

Late last night, the House voted 277 to 148 in favor of passing H.R. 4853 extending Bush tax rates for two years, unemployment benefits for 13 months and cutting the social security payroll tax for two years.

Yeas votes:  Democrats, 139, Republicans, 138

No votes:  112 Democrats, 36 Republicans

Yesterday, the Senate approved the $858 billion tax plan, by a vote of 81 to 19.

While the legislation will guarantee unemployed workers up to 99 weeks of jobless benefits through the end of next year, said extension of benefits will go only to individuals who have been laid off more than 26 weeks but less than 99.  Those who have reached the 99-week limit for jobless benefits will receive no additional benefits.

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“At the insistence of Republicans, the plan includes an estate tax that would allow the first $10 million of a couple’s estate to pass to heirs without taxation. The balance would be subject to a 35 percent tax rate.

Many House Democrats wanted a higher estate tax, one that would allow couples to pass only $7 million tax-free, taxing anything above that amount at a 45 percent rate. They argued that the higher estate tax would affect only 6,600 of the wealthiest estates in 2011 and would save $23 billion over two years.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called the estate tax the “most egregious provision” in the bill and held a vote that would have imposed the higher estate tax. It failed, 194-233.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said he thought the White House could have gotten a better deal….”

Whining a$$ Progressives despise Democracy and justice prevailing.