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IRS officials back on Capitol Hill hot seat over targeting
Reuters* Former IRS head Shulman to give first public testimony * Lawmakers seek specifics about who knew of practice, and when By John Whitesides WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel will try on Tuesday to pry more details out of current and...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Taxation, Politics, White House, Republican Party
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White House officials knew of IRS audit findings weeks in advance
WASHINGTON — Top officials in the White House learned in April that an investigation of the IRS would probably end up showing that the agency targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny, the White House spokesman conceded Monday, contrary to...
Tags: Taxation, Politics, White House, Max Baucus, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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U.S. panel votes to speed up airport fingerprinting of immigrants
Reuters* Major U.S. airports would be first to install equipment * Negotiations continue over high-tech visas By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - High-tech systems for tracking the movements of immigrants and other foreigners when leaving the...Tags: Politics, Jeff Sessions, Science and Technology, Migration, Technology
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Pressure builds on U.S. officials to take heat for IRS scandal
ReutersBy Kim Dixon and Patrick Temple-West WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - Pressure was building on Monday for the Obama administration to fire more people linked to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's extra scrutiny of conservative groups, possibly including...Tags: Politics, Taxation, Tea Party Movement, White House, Republican Party
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Senate panel focuses on enforcement in immigration bill
WASHINGTON — Senators kept the bipartisan immigration bill largely unchanged Thursday after dispatching dozens of proposed amendments even as they punted many of the thorniest issues to next week. The day's session at the Senate Judiciary...
Tags: Politics, John Cornyn, Lindsey O. Graham, Republican Party, Migration
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'I know it when I see it'
In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American's right to free speech yet guarded “community standards” against “hard core...Tags: Politics, U.S. Supreme Court, The Washington Post, Productivity, Science and Technology
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Farming: 'I know it when I see it'
In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American’s right to free speech yet guarded “community standards”...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Politics, The Washington Post, Productivity, Science and Technology
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Immigration reform divides Republicans
WASHINGTON — The immigration reform bill crafted by a bipartisan group of senators has deeply split the Republican minority even as lawmakers prepare to take the first votes on the proposal Thursday. Alabama's Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, a...Tags: Politics, Human Interest, Jeff Sessions, Lawyers, Migration
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Vote on Obama's choice to lead Labor Department delayed
WASHINGTON -- A vote on President Obama’s nominee to lead the Labor Department was delayed for an additional week, the latest roadblock for the controversial choice. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions was scheduled to...
Tags: Politics, Thomas Edward Perez, Republican Party, Lamar Alexander, Mitch McConnell
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Shame on the Senate; send 'em all home
Let me begin this column with an apology. Once a week, I pick an important issue and offer my reasoned analysis, based on the facts, of what it all means and how we should react. But there are times when the intellect fails and the heart and gut take...Tags: Politics, Radio, Jeff Sessions, Patrick J. Toomey, Safety of Citizens
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Ag stakeholders reach crucial deal on immigration reform
A bipartisan group of senators known as the “Gang of Eight” seems to have finally figured out how to fix our country's broken immigration system and provide a workable system for workers to legally perform important tasks on farms and ranches year round....Tags: Politics, Lindsey O. Graham, Corporate Officers, Migration, Marco Rubio
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Rubio has dinner at the White House
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelBy William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, one of President Obama’s most persistent critics, joined him for dinner at the White House on Wednesday night to talk immigration, the budget and a wide range of other...
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