2017: Fitzpatrick Voted To Increase Funding For The Taxpayer Advocate
Service's Identify Theft Caseworker. In September 2017, Fitzpatrick
voted for an amendment that would have, according to Congressional
Quarterly, "increase[d] funding for the Taxpayer Advocate Service's
identity theft casework by $500,000, and would [have] decrease[d]
funding for IRS operational support by $1 million." The underlying
legislation was an FY 2018 omnibus. The House accepted the amendment by
a vote of 265 to 143. The House later passed the underlying legislation.
The Senate took no substantive action on the overall legislation.
[House Vote 526,
9/14/17; Congressional
Quarterly, 9/14/17; Congressional
Actions, H. Amdt.
445;
Congressional Actions, H.R.
3354]