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Washington's scandals won't stunt America's recovery
Reuters(Reuters) - Scandal has visited the Obama administration, and thanks to the media narrative it's larger than the sum of its parts. With a talking-point imbroglio after Benghazi, the IRS's discriminatory practices and the Justice Department's...Tags: Immigration, Max Baucus, U.S. Department of Justice, Politics, U.S. Senate
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Tax chief forced out in IRS scandal
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's top tax official was fired on Wednesday as President Barack Obama sought to stem a rising tide of criticism over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny. With three...Tags: Max Baucus, Labor Legislation, Internal Revenue Service, Career and Workplace, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013)
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Obama ousts IRS chief over inquiry
WASHINGTON — President Obama forced out the head of the IRS on Wednesday, seeking to restore the public's faith in the tax agency while asserting a measure of control over a rapidly growing political problem. Making a hastily scheduled statement...
Tags: Max Baucus, Pension and Welfare, Internal Revenue Service, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Marco Rubio
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Casey, Toomey on Senate committee that will investigate IRS next week
Call Washington BureauPennsylvania'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: Jim Gerlach, Jack Lew, Taxation, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Internal Revenue Service
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U.S. lawmakers press for changes at scandal-plagued tax agency
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Republican lawmakers stepped up their calls for top Internal Revenue Service officials to resign, President Barack Obama planned to meet with Treasury officials on Wednesday to discuss how to respond to the growing uproar over...Tags: Max Baucus, Internal Revenue Service, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Healthcare Provider
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US Republicans vow to fight for spending cuts as deficit shrinks
Reuters* Lawmakers reaffirm 10-year balanced budget goal * Seek to tie debt limit hike to tax reform By David Lawder and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives vowed on Wednesday to press on with their...Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Fannie Mae, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, James Lankford, U.S. Congress
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Republicans vow to fight for spending cuts as deficit shrinks
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives vowed on Wednesday to press on with their campaign to further slash spending on U.S. government benefits programs despite evidence that the deficit is shrinking rapidly. The lawmakers...Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Fannie Mae, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, James Lankford, U.S. House of Representatives
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WRAPUP 1-U.S. tax chief forced out in IRS scandal
Reuters* Obama says he 'will not tolerate' partisan actions by IRS * Republicans vow to continue probes of agency * Investigations will look for any links to White House By Matt Spetalnick and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Washington's top tax...Tags: Max Baucus, Labor Legislation, Internal Revenue Service, Career and Workplace, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Myers won't seek another term in Md. House of Delegates
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comDel. LeRoy E. Myers, R-Washington/Allegany, announced Wednesday that he will not seek re-election to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2014, ending a run as a state legislator that began with an upset victory in 2002 over longtime House Speaker Casper R....Tags: John Delaney, Politics, Maryland General Assembly, Annapolis, Elections
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Obama says watchdog report's findings on IRS 'intolerable'
ReutersWASHINGTON (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 hold...Tags: Washington, DC, Labor Legislation, U.S. Department of Justice, Jack Lew, Taxation
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FBI opens criminal probe of tax agency, audit cites disarray
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday he had ordered the FBI to open a criminal probe in a growing scandal over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups for extra tax scrutiny. Holder'...Tags: Max Baucus, Internal Revenue Service, Ted Cruz, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Orrin Hatch
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Federal deficit shrinks at surprising rate
WASHINGTON — The federal deficit is shrinking more quickly than expected, and the government's long-term debt has largely stabilized for the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday in a report that could strengthen the Obama...
Tags: Eric Cantor, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Public Finance, Paul Ryan, Politics
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