Director of Exempt Organizations for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Lois Lerner appears before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on alleged targeting of conservative political groups seeking tax-exempt status from by the IRS, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 22, 2013. Lerner, the IRS official who this month revealed the tax agency's targeting of conservative groups asserted her constitutional right not to answer questions before a congressional committee on Wednesday. | (Photo: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
