TheBlaze Questions Jay Carney on New Proposed IRS Rules Critics Say Will Restrict Political Speech | TheBlaze.com

TheBlaze Questions Jay Carney on New Proposed IRS Rules Critics Say Will Restrict Political Speech | TheBlaze.com:

"Cruz also proposed to amend the Internal Revenue Code to use the Federal Election Commission’s definition to determine whether an organization is engaging in political activity, and to keep the IRS out of such matters.

The Democratic majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected both proposals on a party-line vote. 

“Nearly nine months ago, President Obama declared the IRS’s illegal targeting of conservative groups ‘intolerable and inexcusable,’ yet his administration has authored a new rule to specifically limit free speech for many of those groups, which are classified as ‘social welfare’ organizations,” Cruz said."