WASHINGTON — In March 2012, when Rep.Charles Boustany R-Lafayette asked then IRSCommissioner Douglas Shulman about reports the agency had been targeting Tea Party groups, few paid much attention.
But this week, a videotape of the hearing in which Boustany asked his question, and Schulman’s offered his assurance that “there is absolutely no targeting,” has been played repeatedly on network and cable newscasts.
A report this week by a federal inspector general that the IRS had been improperly targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups for extra scrutiny on applications for tax-exempt status has put Boustany, the chair of the House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee, into the forefront. It’s quite a jump for the physician-turned lawmaker, who only last year was fighting for his political life in a race he eventually won against Tea Party favorite Jeff Landry of New Iberia.
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