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Congress keeps up pressure on IRS
There will be more hearings this week in the Congress on the IRS targeting of more conservative political groups, as Republicans try to zero in on who signed off on the effort as the GOP presses the Obama Administration for answers. These hearings come after Friday's first Congressional review of ...
Lawmakers spar with outgoing IRS chief
Two days after being pushed out of his job as Acting IRS chief, Steven Miller told a House committee that no politics were involved in the IRS targeting of more conservative political groups seeking tax exempt status, as he sparred with Republican lawmakers in the first hearing on the tax ...
IRS shakeup continues as questions grow
As President Obama chose a new acting director of the Internal Revenue Service, a top agency official with links to IRS targeting of more conservative political groups suddenly decided to retire, as Republicans in Congress accused the IRS of carrying out a political vendetta against Tea Party groups. "Somebody made ...
Acting IRS chief forced out as outcry grows
With more evidence surfacing that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted more conservative groups applying for tax exempt status, President Obama announced the acting head of the IRS had offered his resignation, as Republicans in the Congress said even more changes are needed at the tax agency. "I will not ...
IRS report details targeting of conservative groups
As the U.S. Attorney General ordered a criminal probe into how the IRS targeted more conservative groups, a newly released report detailed how one unit at the tax agency created a "Be On the Lookout" list for tea party type groups applying for tax exempt status. The Inspector General that ...
AP letter to Attorney General on phone records
After being notified last week that the Justice Department had secretly seized two months of records from work, cell and home phones of various Associated Press reporters, the AP sent a stern letter on Monday to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, demanding that the information be destroyed and not used ...
Obama on IRS, Benghazi
President Obama on Monday used a joint news conference with the British Prime Minister at the White House to express his opposition to the targeting of any political groups by the Internal Revenue Service and to push back hard against Republicans in Congress who are investigating the Benghazi attacks. Here ...
Congress boils over on IRS
There may be no bigger political target and punching bag than the Internal Revenue Service, and that is obvious on this Monday, as Republicans express outrage over reports that the IRS had targeted more conservative political groups for review of their tax-exempt status applications, and even a few Democrats joined ...
IRS blasted for review of conservative groups
Just the mere mention of wrongdoing by the Internal Revenue Service always has a different ring about it in Washington, D.C., and last Friday's revelation that the IRS had apologized for wrongly targeting more conservative groups grew steadily over the weekend, as new reports indicated groups that focused on the ...
Federal court defends judicial conference at Georgia resort
Even as automatic budget cuts force various federal agencies to cut spending, a group of federal judges from the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit went ahead with their 2013 Judicial Conference last week, spending several days - and maybe several hundred thousand dollars - at a golf resort and spa in Savannah, ...
The fine print of immigration reform legislation
As work begins in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on immigration reform legislation, Senators have laid out 300 amenmdents to what is now an 867 page bill, covering everything from immigration issues involving same-sex spouses to plans that prevent anyone in the U.S. illegally from becoming a U.S. citizen. Supporters ...
Lawmakers tangle over Benghazi attacks hearing
A former top official at the U.S. Embassy in Libya gave lawmakers a riveting moment-by-moment review of the attacks in Benghazi that killed four Americans, as he sternly disputed the idea that an anti-Muslim video on the internet had been the cause for the violence. "The You Tube event was ...
From the Appalachian Trail back to Congress
Once again proving that political obituaries are sometimes written far too early, voters in South Carolina have sent a scandal scarred ex-Governor back to Congress, as Republican Mark Sanford easily won a seat in the U.S. House over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch. While the polls had indicated an edge for ...
Internet sales tax bill moves to House
The Senate on Monday gave easy, bipartisan approval to a bill that would push internet retailers to collect and remit sales taxes for 45 states, but the bill's future remained unclear in the House. The vote was 69-27, with most of the opposition coming from Republicans in the Senate, as ...
Congress returns to active legislative agenda
With the next vacation break just three weeks away for Memorial Day, the Congress returns to work this week with a series of issues on the agenda that could certainly spur some animated partisan battles up and down Pennsylvania Avenue. The first order of business in the Senate on Monday ...
Lawmakers float new plan on drugs in horse racing
Using the 2013 Kentucky Derby to gain a little attention, a group of lawmakers has unveiled plans in Congress to "end doping in horseracing and kick cheaters out of the sport." It's not the first effort to take on the "Sport of Kings" by Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM), Rep. Ed ...
FBI posts photo of three from Benghazi
As the political battle over the deaths of four Americans last year in Benghazi, Libya was heating up again in Washington, D.C., the FBI on Wednesday released pictures of three men who were at the U.S. compound that was attacked on September 11, 2012, looking for clues on those responsible ...
Obama Administration rolls out new health insurance forms
The Obama Administration unveiled new draft forms Tuesday for people to apply for insurance coverage under the Obama health law, releasing signup applications which are much shorter and less complex than an earlier version that drew criticism from backers and critics alike of the health reform law. "Consumers will have ...
U.S. Treasury to pay down $35 billion in debt
For the first time since 2007, the Treasury Department announced on Monday that the federal government will be able to pay down debt in a quarter, as new figures show Uncle Sam should come out $35 billion ahead between April-June, turning around what had been an expected need to borrow ...
The sequester isn't going away
After Democrats held the edge on the fiscal cliff deal back in January, many on Capitol Hill seemed to expect that Republicans would quickly fold when budget cuts from the sequester started hitting home and hitting the headlines. But that certainly didn't happen in the recent battle over furloughs of ...
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