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    May 21, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. IRS officials still don't have full explanation of targeting

    WASHINGTON – The outgoing head of the IRS said the agency still doesn’t know which staff members were responsible for using politically-loaded language to screen out nonprofit groups, as senators pressed them to explain how certain conservative organizations applying for tax-exempt status received extra scrutiny.
    WASHINGTON – The outgoing head of the IRS said the agency still doesn’t know which staff members were responsible for using politically-loaded language to screen out nonprofit groups, as senators pressed them to explain how certain...

    Tags: John Cornyn, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Internal Revenue Service, White House, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance

    2. May 20, 2013 |Story| Allentown Morning Call

  2. Toomey, Casey to grill officials on IRS controversy

    WASHINGTON – Pennsylvania's two U.S. senators both worry the controversy surrounding the Internal Revenue Service could slow progress in an already divisive and stymied Washington. Democrat Bob Casey and Republican Pat Toomey spoke out Monday...

    Tags: Parties and Movements, Internal Revenue Service, White House, Finance, Republican Party

    3. Dec 21, 2011 | Allentown Morning Call

  3. With 10 days to go, payroll tax cut deal still uncertain

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    House Republicans' unwillingness to accept the Senate version of a payroll tax cut -- a measure that secured most Senate Republican support, including from Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey, leaves Congress with just ten days to come to an agreement or else......
    4. Dec 14, 2011 | Allentown Morning Call

  4. From Casey, a box of Godiva

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    It may arguably be the chocolate of the 1 percent, but we're sure New Mexico Democrat Tom Udall enjoyed it all the same. It was a gift after all. A gift from Pennsylvania's Bob Casey. Monday evening between votes, a......
    5. Dec 16, 2011 | Allentown Morning Call

  5. Casey, Toomey author bill to create medals honoring 9/11 victims

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    At each of the three Sept. 11 memorials in Pennsylvania, New York and Virginia there will now be displayed a Congressional Gold Medal honoring the Americans that died there. The Senate cleared for the president’s signature Thursday night a bill........
    6. Dec 8, 2011 | Allentown Morning Call

  6. GOP Senate candidate airs first TV ad of 2012 PA race

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    Republican Armstrong County businessman, Tom Smith, is the first candidate out of the gate in the Pennsylvania Senate race with a 30-second television ad that began airing Thursday morning in certain Pennsylvania markets. It's mostly a bio spot to...
    7. Nov 29, 2011 | Allentown Morning Call

  7. Toomey to push for permanent earmark ban

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    In the days following his 2010 Senate victory, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey co-authored an op-ed in USA Today with an unlikely future colleague, Democrat Claire McCaskill. Together, the senator-elect and the Missouri senator called for a moratorium on earmarks....
    8. Dec 1, 2011 | Allentown Morning Call

  8. Toomey teams up with Schumer

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    Chuck Schumer lives in New York. Pat Toomey worked in New York in his 20s. And that's about where their similiarities end. But the outspoken, veteran Democrat and the fiscal hawk, freshman Republican teamed up Thursday on a jobs creation......
    9. May 20, 2013 |Column| South Bend Tribune

  9. Coats defends his vote on guns

    Although polls nationwide and in Indiana show overwhelming support for tightening background checks for gun purchases,Sen. Dan Coats, Indiana's Republican senior senator, voted "no." He says most constituents who contacted him wanted him to do just that. In a wide-ranging interview in Mishawaka, Coats said the gun issue broughtmore calls, e-mails and letters to his office -- more than 40,000 -- than received on all other issues combined in the past two years. Coats said more than 75 percent of the messages were in opposition to tighter background checks in the proposal of Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., which died in the Senate after failing to get a required 60 votes.
    Although polls nationwide and in Indiana show overwhelming support for tightening background checks for gun purchases,Sen. Dan Coats, Indiana's Republican senior senator, voted "no." He says most constituents who contacted him wanted him to do just that....

    Tags: Parties and Movements, Joe Manchin III, Dan Coats, Public Finance, Sandy Hook Elementary School

    10. Apr 11, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. How could 31 Senators vote against debating expanded background checks?

    How could it be that even a single U.S. senator — no matter how opposed to gun control — could vote to hold up consideration of a proposal to require background checks for gun purchases? This is an idea not only embraced by something in the order of 91 percent of the American public but 85 percent of National Rifle Association members.
    How could it be that even a single U.S. senator — no matter how opposed to gun control — could vote to hold up consideration of a proposal to require background checks for gun purchases? This is an idea not only embraced by something in the...

    Tags: Joe Manchin III, Personal Weapon Control, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics

    11. May 10, 2013 |Story| Hartford Courant

  11. House Democrats Lead New Gun Control Effort

    The leader of gun-violence prevention efforts in the U.S. House of Representatives was in Connecticut on Friday to help Democrats execute their new strategy: Demonstrate enough support in the lower chamber to compel the U.S. Senate to revisit the bill it<strong> </strong>rejected last month.
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    The leader of gun-violence prevention efforts in the U.S. House of Representatives was in Connecticut on Friday to help Democrats execute their new strategy: Demonstrate enough support in the lower chamber to compel the U.S. Senate to revisit the bill...

    Tags: John Boehner, Shootings, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Richard Blumenthal, Crime, Law and Justice

    12. May 16, 2013 |Story| Allentown Morning Call

  12. Casey, Toomey on Senate committee that will investigate IRS next week

    Pennsylvania's two U.S. senators sit on the powerful tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, which will begin its investigation of the <span class=&quot;runtimeTopic">Internal Revenue Service</span>'s targeting of conservative groups at a hearing on Tuesday.
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    Pennsylvania's two U.S. senators sit on the powerful tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, which will begin its investigation of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups at a hearing on Tuesday. Republicans and Democrats are...

    Tags: Parties and Movements, Internal Revenue Service, Allyson Y Schwartz, Taxation, Tea Party Movement

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