GOP keeping pressure on IRS in hearings next week

On Tuesday, the House Ways and Means Committee will hear testimony from groups who were targeted by the IRS for their political beliefs. That hearing gets at the heart of the scandal in which the IRS has admitted applying extra scrutiny to politically conservative groups.

{mosads}After a brief respite on Wednesday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will meet Thursday to discuss “The IRS Spending Culture and Conference Abuses.”

On other issues, the House Education and the Workforce Committee will meet Tuesday to hear testimony about the Obama administration’s 2014 budget proposal for the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will testify.

Details on these and other key House hearings follow:

House Appropriations

June 3, “Oversight Hearing — Internal Revenue Service,” Acting IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George testify
     3 p.m., 2359 Rayburn House Office Building

House Education and the Workforce

June 4, “Reviewing the President’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Proposal for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies
     10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn House Office Building

House Oversight and Government Reform

June 6, “Collected and Wasted: The IRS Spending Culture and Conference Abuses”
     9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn House Office Building

House Science, Space, and Technology

June 4, “STEM Education: The Administration’s Proposed Re-Organization”
     2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn House Office Building

House Small Business

June 5, “Reducing Duplication and Promoting Efficiency at the SBA: The Inspector General’s View”
     1 p.m., 2360 Rayburn House Office Building

House Ways and Means

June 4, “Hearing with Organizations Targeted by Internal Revenue Service for their Personal Beliefs”
     10 a.m., 1100 Longworth House Office Building