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                         The Internal Revenue Service official charged with overseeing  tax-exempt organizations when conservative groups were targeted for extra  scrutiny now runs the agency’s office responsible for implementing  Obamacare.

Sarah Hall Ingram was commissioner of the office responsible  for tax-exempt organizations from 2009 to 2012, ABC News reports.

Ingram,  however, is now director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, according to  ABC.

Her successor, Joseph Grant, said he would retire on June 3. He  served as deputy commissioner of the tax-exempt unit during some of those  years.

Obamacare has 47 separate provisions that involve the IRS. It is  the second-largest agency, after the U.S. Department of Health and Human  Services, charged with implementing the act.

The IRS has to implement  Obamacare’s required purchase of health coverage, checking whether millions of  Americans are in compliance.

The GOP-controlled House voted 225-to-125 to  repeal Obamacare. It was the Lower Chamber’s 37th vote to repeal President  Barack Obama’s healthcare law.

House Speaker John Boehner said he had “serious concerns” about whether the IRS was empowered as the law’s chief  enforcer.

“Fully repealing ObamaCare will help us build a stronger,  healthier economy, and will clear the way for patient-centered reforms that  lower health care costs and protect jobs,” the Ohio Republican told ABC.

“Obamacare empowers the agency that just violated the public’s trust by secretly  targeting conservative groups,” Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., said. “Even by  Washington’s standards, that’s unacceptable.”

And Sen. John Cornyn  introduced the “Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013” in the debate  leading up to the Obamacare vote. The legislation would prohibit the Secretary  of the Treasury — or any designate, including the IRS — from enforcing the  law.

“Now more than ever, we need to prevent the IRS from having any role  in Americans’ health care,” the Texas Republican told ABC. “I do not support  Obamacare, and after the events of last week, I cannot support giving the IRS  any more responsibility or taxpayer dollars to implement a broken law.”

Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told ABC that the news about  Ingram was “stunning, just stunning.”