H.R. 2125 — Introduced in House

I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2125 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 23, 2013 Mr. Shuster introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To prevent implementation and enforcement of Obamacare. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No IRS Implementation of Obamacare Act. 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Between March 2010 and May 2012, the Internal Revenue Service (hereafter referred to as the IRS) engaged in specific targeting of conservative groups that submitted 501(c)(4) applications. (2) IRS employees searched terms such as “patriots” and “tea party” and purposefully singled out these small-government organizations for additional scrutiny and delay. (3) The IRS sat on applications from over 75 conservative groups for months, and in some cases, even years while sending them exhaustive questionnaires delaying their approval for as long as possible. (4) This blatant breach of the public’s trust and misuse of taxpayer money runs counter to the core function of the IRS to collect taxes from U.S. citizens regardless of their political affiliations. (5) The IRS is responsible for implementing the tax increases of Obamacare. (6) The IRS will make the final decisions of who is eligible for subsidies after sharing taxpayer information with the Department of Health and Human Services. (7) A healthy democracy is one where people feel free to express their views, not one where Federal agencies discriminate based on political beliefs. 3. Prevention of implementation and enforcement of Obamacare by IRS The Secretary of the Treasury, or any delegate of the Secretary, shall not implement or enforce any provisions of Public Law 111–148 and Public Law 111–152 (other than subtitle A of title II thereof). 4. Prevention of use of taxpayer funds to implement or enforce Obamacare No taxpayer funds shall be used for the implementation or enforcement of Public Law 111–148 and Public Law 111–152 (other than subtitle A of title II thereof).