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Toledo Blade
Ohio groups long ago sounded alarm on IRS
By Tom Troy and Vanessa McCray 

Conservative Ohio groups more than a year ago raised the alarm that the Internal Revenue Service was holding up their applications for tax-exempt status, leading Ohio U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Urbana) to request the audit that led to the IRS's admission that it targeted Tea Party-related groups for close scrutiny. 

The scandal on Wednesday broadened enough to prompt President Obama's Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to request the resignation of acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller. 

Mr. Jordan, who chairs a Tea Party-leaning conservative caucus in the House of Representatives, sent a letter on March 27, 2012, to the IRS, seeking a response to complaints from Ohio groups. His committee followed that up in June, 2012, with a request for an IRS audit. He has continued to focus House GOP heat on the IRS. 

“We still do not know why the targeting began, how extensive it was, who initiated it and who knew about it. The IRS must be held accountable to the American people, which requires a full investigation of the circumstances surrounding the facts established in this audit,” Mr. Jordan said Wednesday. 

He recalled that Lois Lerner, the IRS director of exempt organizations, in 2012 "assured us there was nothing to be suspicious of." 

"We continued to pursue this topic through Committee correspondence and are pleased that our requested report is completed and look forward to hearing from Ms. Lerner in front of the Oversight Committee next week," Mr. Jordan said. 

Mr. Jordan chairs a subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which is chaired by U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R., California). His 4th Congressional District stretches from Mercer County to Lorain County, and includes Sandusky and Seneca counties and part of Erie County. 

Also responding to conservative groups’ complaints was U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R., Ohio) who was the lead author of the first Congressional action, a letter on March, 12, 2012, complaining to the IRS that excessive demands were being made on a lot of conservative groups in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas. 

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