Lawmakers Contacted Tax Agency About NAACP

By Elizabeth Schwinn

Seven Republican lawmakers, including Sens. Susan M. Collins of Maine and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, in recent years forwarded complaints to the Internal Revenue Service about the tax-exempt status of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, according to newly released federal records.

From 2000 through 2003, the lawmakers sent letters to the IRS on behalf of constituents who told

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