WARREN LEADS SENATE INVESTIGATION INTO WHETHER IRS CEO MISLED CONGRESS AND PUBLIC ABOUT AGENCY STAFFING SHORTAGE

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, led 13 senators in investigating whether Frank Bisignano, Chief Executive Officer of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), misled Congress and the public about his agency's staffing problems after the Trump administration gutted the IRS workforce.

Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), R...