The list of victims scheduled to testify today are listed on the Committee website, the include heads of Tea Party, Patriot, pro-marriage and pro-life groups.
Some of these witnesses have already spoken to the media about the invasive and inappropriate questions they were subjected to, but their testimony will now be part of the public record and official investigation.
Witness List
Mr. John Eastman
Chairman, National Organization for Marriage
Ms. Diane Belsom
Laurens County Tea Party
Ms. Becky Gerritson
Wetumpka Tea Party
Ms. Karen Kenny
San Fernando Valley Patriots
Mr. Kevin Kookogey
Founder and President, Linchpins of Liberty
Ms. Sue Martinek
Coalition for Life of Iowa
Reminder- That last witness named, Ms. Martinek, previously said that the tax exempt status for Coalition for Life of Iowa was threatened unless she signed a letter promising not to picket in front of Planned Parenthood offices.
Focus Of The Hearing
The hearing will focus on organizations that were targeted as part of the Internal Revenue Service’s practice of discriminating against applicants for tax-exempt status based on their personal beliefs.
AP:
The leaders of six conservative groups were scheduled to tell lawmakers Tuesday about their mistreatment at the hands of IRS agents. Several of the groups say their applications for tax-exempt status were delayed while agents asked intrusive questions that the IRS has since acknowledged were inappropriate. One group, the National Organization for Marriage, says the IRS publicly disclosed confidential information about donors.Leaders of the groups were scheduled to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee. Ways and Means is one of three congressional committees investigating the IRS' treatment of such groups. The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation.For more than 18 months during the 2010 and 2012 election campaigns, IRS agents in a Cincinnati office singled out tea party and other conservative groups for additional scrutiny when they sought tax-exempt status, according to a report by J. Russell George, the Treasury Department inspector general for tax administration.The report said tea party groups were asked inappropriate questions about their donors, their political affiliations and their positions on political issues. The additional scrutiny delayed applications for an average of nearly two years, making it difficult for many of the groups to raise money.
(Read embedded- Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration Report)
Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit will be attending the hearing with representatives of the Tea Party Patriots.
Be sure to keep an eye over at Gateway Pundit for details of the victims' statements.
See- Excepts of the Ohio IRS employees' interviews with Congress, saying that contrary to what the IRS had previously stated about "two rogue agents" being responsible for the targeting of conservatives, their orders came from Washington.
Giving credence to their claim are reports that as part of the internal gathering of documents for Congress, IRS officials collected documents from 88 employees.
Full Wake up America coverage on the IRS scandal can be found here.
