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Obama: IRS watchdog report's findings intolerable, inexcusable
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday called the findings in a government report about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny intolerable and said he has directed his administration to...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Washington, DC, Barack Obama, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace
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Factbox: Treasury's tools to delay hitting debt limit
Reuters(Reuters) - The budget deficit is shrinking more quickly than previously estimated, the Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday, which will likely help postpone the effective deadline for raising the debt limit. The revised estimate from the non-...Tags: Employees, Local Government, Labor Legislation, Freddie Mac, Finance
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New details -- good and bad -- from the IRS inspector general's report
A new report by the Internal Revenue Service's inspector general offered a few new details Tuesday about the scandal revolving around the IRS' treatment of "tea party" groups seeking tax-exempt status. Those details were in part damning and in part...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Elections, Labor Legislation, White House, Lobbying
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Senior tax officials knew of extra Tea Party scrutiny
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Higher-level Internal Revenue Service officials took part in discussions as far back as August 2011 about targeting by lower-level tax agents of "Tea Party" and other conservative groups, according to documents reviewed by Reuters...Tags: Parties and Movements, CNN (tv network), Internal Revenue Service, Washington, DC, U.S. House of Representatives
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Acting IRS commissioner repeatedly failed to tell Congress that tea party groups were targeted
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven T. Miller repeatedly failed to tell Congress that tea party groups were being inappropriately targeted, even after he had been briefed on the matter. The IRS said Monday that...Tags: Parties and Movements, CNN (tv network), Meet the Press (tv program), Washington, DC, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
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Bloomberg in damage-control mode over client snooping
Officials at Bloomberg, the New York financial news and information service, scrambled to deal with an unfolding customer privacy scandal after admitting its journalists had snooped on business clients for years through its network of terminals ubiquitous...
Tags: Thomson Corporation, European Central Bank, Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg L.P., Central Bank
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Bloomberg's top editor calls client data policy 'inexcusable'
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Matthew Winkler, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, apologized on Monday for allowing journalists "limited" access to sensitive data about how clients used Bloomberg terminals, saying it was "inexcusable", but that important...Tags: Japan, Thomson Corporation, European Central Bank, Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg L.P.
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IRS kept shifting targets in tax-exempt groups scrutiny: report
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - When tax agents started singling out non-profit groups for extra scrutiny in 2010, they looked at first only for key words such as 'Tea Party,' but later they focused on criticisms by groups of "how the country is being run,"...Tags: Parties and Movements, Tea Party Movement, Internal Revenue Service, Government Debt, Taxation
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Bloomberg's top editor calls policy on client data 'inexcusable'
ReutersNEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters) - Matthew Winkler, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, apologized on Monday for allowing journalists "limited" access to sensitive data about how clients used Bloomberg terminals, saying it was "inexcusable" but that important...Tags: Thomson Corporation, News Media, European Central Bank, Federal Reserve, Michael Bloomberg
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Boehner: Bondholders should be paid first if debt limit breached
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John A. Boehner said holders of U.S. government bonds should be paid first if the nation's debt limit is breached, even if that means that China would get preference over the salaries of U.S. troops. Boehner (R-Ohio) defended...
Tags: Peter Cook, Washington, DC, Barack Obama, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party
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IRS official knew in 2011 that tea party was targeted
WASHINGTON — A top Internal Revenue Service official knew as early as June 2011 that conservative groups seeking nonprofit status were being singled out for additional scrutiny, raising questions about when senior officials were informed and why the...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Tea Party Movement, George W. Bush, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Taxation
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TREASURIES-U.S. bond prices steady before 10-year supply
Reuters* Upbeat overseas data soothe anxiety about global growth * ECB member Mersch remark on ABS revive safehaven bids for bonds * U.S. Treasury to sell $24 billion 10-year notes * Fed to buy $3.00-$3.75 bln bonds due 2019-2020 By Richard Leong NEW YORK,...Tags: Federal Reserve, Government Debt, Central Bank, Auction Service, China
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