{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-boebert-cosponsors-bill-stop-irs-trampling-americans-privacy-excessively", "Rep. Boebert Cosponsors Bill to Stop the IRS from Trampling on Americans\u2019 Privacy by Excessively Monitoring Bank Accounts", "2021-10-14", "2021", "2021-10", "Republican", "House", "CO", "Lauren Boebert", "B000825", "boebert.house.gov", "boebert", "https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Congresswoman Lauren Boebert stood up for Americans\u2019 financial privacy by cosponsoring the Protecting Financial Privacy Act to prohibit the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from accessing and monitoring Americans\u2019 bank transactions above $600.\n\nRep. Lauren Boebert stated: \u201cI won\u2019t stand idly by watching Janet Yellen radically transform the IRS into a leftist, Praetorian Guard that spies on Americans\u2019 private financial transactions. Last time Joe Biden had an office in the White House, his administration weaponized the IRS to target conservative organizations. That overreach didn\u2019t give him enough control, so now, he is trying to allow IRS bureaucrats to spy on individual American\u2019s bank accounts. The federal government has no business monitoring small cash deposits and how Americans pay their bills and has no right to snoop around in private checking accounts without a warrant. The Constitution is the new White House doormat, but if Biden bothered to give it a read, he\u2019d know that the Fourth Amendment doesn\u2019t allow unreasonable searches.\u201d\n\nCongresswoman Ashley Hinson said: \u201cForcing financial institutions to turn over Americans' transactions of $600 or more would compromise the privacy of Americans, shut down community financial institutions, and ultimately reduce Iowans' access to credit. The IRS doesn't need access to Iowans' most basic personal information; the government has no right to know every time Iowans pay their bills or go the grocery store. The Protecting Financial Privacy Act would block this proposal and safeguard taxpayers from this invasion of privacy. The push to include this provision in reconciliation, along with $80 billion to nearly quadruple the IRS budget, is reflective of how backwards Democrat priorities are right now--we need more border agents, not more IRS agents.\"\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville said: \u201cFolks feel uneasy when someone is snooping around in their business, especially when it\u2019s the federal government doing the snooping. Yet that is exactly what President Biden wants to do with excessive reporting that will strain our local banks and credit unions. The Protecting Financial Privacy Act will proactively block President Biden\u2019s proposal of reporting Americans\u2019 financial transactions of over $600 to the IRS, and stop big brother government at its worst.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nThe Biden regime, through IRS Secretary Janet Yellen, introduced an unconstitutional plan requiring banks and credit unions to report individuals\u2019 financial transactions of $600 and above to the IRS. Specifically, Yellen proposed to \u201ccreate a comprehensive financial account information reporting regime. Financial institutions would report data on financial accounts in an information return. The annual return will report gross inflows and outflows with a breakdown for physical cash, transactions with a foreign account, and transfers to and from another account with the same owner. This requirement would apply to all business and personal accounts from financial institutions, including bank, loan, and investment accounts, with the exception of accounts below a low de minimis gross flow threshold of $600 or fair market value of $600.\u201d\n\nHouse Democrats have pursued this extreme overreach and included it in their $5.5 trillion spending bill.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:24:51Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-boebert-cosponsors-bill-stop-irs-trampling-americans-privacy-excessively"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1104198638349771, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}