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Republicans raise pressure on Obama over IRS targeting
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cnn.com
- May 15, 2013
By Dana Bash and Tom Cohen, CNN
updated 12:46 PM EDT, Wed May 15, 2013
Washington (CNN) -- A Republican campaign to vilify President Barack Obama's administration over Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups strengthened Wednesday, with GOP congressional leaders alleging criminal activity and demanding answers.
All 45 Senate Republicans sent the White House a letter that called for the administration to "comply with all requests related to congressional inquiries without any delay" involving the controversy.
It called the scandal "yet another completely inexcusable attempt to chill the speech of political opponents and those who would question their government, consistent with a broader pattern of intimidation by arms of your administration to silence political dissent."
House Speaker John Boehner went further, telling reporters that "clearly someone violated the law" in what an IRS inspector general's report described as delayed processing of applications by groups associated with the political right wing.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell also suggested criminal behavior occurred, saying that the "very serious" allegations involve "an effort to bring the power of the federal government to bear on those the administration disagreed with in the middle of a heated national election."
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