ms. kenny, i want to particularly thank you for your work with veterans, being one myself, i appreciate that very, very much. i want to just state for the record what i said the last time we had a hearing on this. i believe that it's outrageous, inappropriate, it's wrong, and we must do everything we can do to fix it to make sure it never happens again. ms. belsom, i probably went get it correct, but you said something along the lines of this needs to be investigated. those responsible need to be held accountable for any targeting of conservative groups. i agree, but i believe any targeting of any group, anybody that does that, needs to be held accountable. >> you're absolutely right. >> it's important that we hear about these abuses; however, we know it's bad, it's wrong, and we all know it must never happen again. we know we need to fix it. mr. chairman, it's time we stipulate this is wrong, that it's abusive, and that it needs to be -- it never should have happened, and we need to know what

i don't want to forget ms. kenny and everyone listening, whatever you can do for the veterans, whatever anyone can do to help those people who put their lives at stake and are coming home to joblessness and homeless as, i want to commend you as did my colleague for what you do and hope it is encouragement so everybody can do some pain. now, with the irs, most of us know that this is an experienced telephone call from the irs somehow historically it's a very, very uncomfortable feeling. and i hope all of you would agree that the 90,000 people that work for the internal revenue service are dedicated, hard-working, civil servants, but we have found a cancer someplace in cincinnati and we have to find out what caused this so that no americans would be sub.to the type of bias and discrimination that some of you any of us who are not here have suffered. we have to make certain that it doesn't happen again, but even more important try to find out just how many people were contaminated by the presence of those people that ha

ms. kenny, i understand you work with veterans returning from combat with posttraumatic stress disorder. as a veteran i would like to start off by saying thank you for doing that. please describe your work. >> i work with veterans who have been deployed throughout iraq and iran, most of the desert community and their families. the toll that takes on the families is extraordinary. i work with their dogs. i am going to cry. i see people that are untouched. no one goes to hug a soldier unless they are family. i have this one guy that comes and he says -- where is my dog? he picks the dog up for the session and pats my dog, little lady. they are on the front lines and everyone on this panel has their back. i hope that you do as well. >> yes, ma'am. as you know i was in the military and i understand that. thank you for doing that. did you ever think he would have to deal with pages, ages, and pages of intrusive questions from the irs? and when you come home from a day of helping our troops, who prot

ms. etheridge doesn't run into many problems, but every so often an inmate lashes out at her. >> i got a letter this morning. it was addressed specifically to that mailroom whatever man, and it's from kennyilson down in segregation. and he wrote to me about his -- it was a musical card that he got and they can't have musical cards, but we've never rejected the card, itself. what we'll do is take the letter opener and go through the back and take the mechanical piece out, the battery and everything. and we'll just throw it away and we'll send them their stuff instead of just rejecting it. but he wrote to warden culliver and to me and sent the card to warden culliver and said that before i run crying and whining to warden culliver, he asked me, who do you think you are? and asked me, i don't have the right to disrespect his mail and it says does it say in your job to tear up the mail? you will pay for this card, i promise you that, and you will find a new job because you've crossed the line dealing with my mail. my name is kenny wilson. you must not know i hate you low life white people as is. he doesn't even have correct grammar. he can't halfway spell, but yet he wants to be derogatory a

kenny. the next witness is the president of the coalition for life of iowa, and until he recent retirement, ms. martinek worked with clothing. you're recognized. >> good morning. >> your mrch, please. >> i'm sue martinek based in cedar rapids, iowa, and we're a low budget charity founded in 2004 to provide prayer, education, and related activities about the sanctity of life from conception to natural death. throughout history, we organized and sponsored educational forums engaging in peaceful, prayerful activities. in 2008, we sought tax free exemption from the irs by filling out the form. i speak today so that what happened to us, the irs's demonstrated harassment, improper questions, and intolerance towards the message may not happen to others. the irs questions centers on educational and political activities, our prayer groups, and our sign aiming. on april 27 #th, 2009, irs agents moved richards out of the cincinnati office, sent me a letter asking about the educational forum whether we were trying to influence legislation or influence political campaigns. we'd already answered no on the i