{"id":992,"date":"2007-04-21T02:48:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T19:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=992"},"modified":"2007-04-21T02:48:17","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T19:48:17","slug":"house-vote-targets-false-irs-web-sites-e-mails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/house-vote-targets-false-irs-web-sites-e-mails\/","title":{"rendered":"House vote targets false IRS Web sites, e-mails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <strong> The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to punish commercial Web sites and e-mail senders that falsely portray themselves as having ties with the Internal Revenue Service. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The regulation is part of the so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:H.R.1677:\">Taxpayer Protection Act<\/a>, which passed by a <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2007\/roll214.xml\">407-7<\/a> vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is an important first step in standing up, really standing up, for the American taxpayer,&#8221; Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), one of the bill&#8217;s chief sponsors, said on the House floor Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/House+vote+targets+false+IRS+Web+sites%2C+e-mails\/2100-1028_3-6176994.html?tag=txt.alert.hed\">click here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to punish commercial Web sites and e-mail senders that falsely portray themselves as having ties with the Internal Revenue Service. The regulation is part of the so-called Taxpayer Protection Act, which passed by a 407-7 vote in the U.S. House of Representatives. &#8220;It is an important first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-government","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}