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IRS official at center of scandal takes administrative leave
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official who this week asserted her right not to answer questions about the controversy over extra scrutiny for conservative groups, took administrative leave on Thursday, a congressional...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Taxation, Parties and Movements, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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John Morgan talks Casey Anthony, Tim Tebow
Staff writerIn local public-affairs programming this weekend: Prominent Orlando attorney John Morgan and his wife, Ultima, are Lauren Rowe's guests on "Flashpoint" at 8 a.m. Sunday on WKMG-Channel 6. They discuss everything from politics and Casey Anthony to...Tags: Government Health Care, Jeffrey Atwater, Amusement and Theme Parks, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Health Treatments
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IRS replaces official who supervised agents involved in targeting tea party groups
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency'...Tags: Danny Werfel, Mitch McConnell, Darrell E Issa, Justice System, Taxation
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Analysis: In any scandal, lying to Congress is tough to prove
ReutersWASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner was called before a congressional committee Wednesday, she declared that she had done nothing wrong - but said she did not intend to testify. Her defiance only...Tags: International Monetary Fund, Central Intelligence Agency, Justice System, Roger Clemens, Taxation
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Stephen Colbert Channels His Inner John Boehner Channeling His Inner Chris Rock
ReutersMay 23 (TheWrap.com) - Stephen Colbert opened up Wednesday's "Colbert Report" by comparing his difficulty in selecting which Obama administration scandal to report on as akin to trying to pick which of your children to impeach. Congress and Colbert chose...Tags: White House, John Boehner, U.S. Congress
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LETTER: IRS Flap Much Ado About Nothing
The current IRS scandal is a textbook example of the oldest political trick in the book. The Inspector General's report states that tea party organizations constitute fewer than one-third of the applications for tax-exempt status that were flagged as...Tags: Taxation, Politics, Internal Revenue Service
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Elizabeth Warren to pen new book -- a middle-class call to arms?
A book can’t rescue the American middle class. But a lot of politicians who say they want to rescue the American middle class are writing books about their travails and their vision — all timed to come out as the 2016 presidential election...
Tags: Elections, Scott P. Brown, Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Book
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Performances worthy of an audit
WASHINGTON — They were the speak-no-evil and see-no-evil duo of the Internal Revenue Service. Lois Lerner, who runs the IRS office that targeted tea party and similar conservative groups for extra scrutiny, took the Fifth, when she appeared...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Elijah E. Cummings, Easter, Barack Obama, Witnesses
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ANALYSIS-In any scandal, lying to Congress is tough to prove
Reuters(Repeats from earlier May 23 for wider distribution) By Joan Biskupic and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23 (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner was called before a congressional committee Wednesday, she declared...Tags: International Monetary Fund, Central Intelligence Agency, Justice System, Taxation, Parties and Movements
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Mail Call - May 23
“I firmly believe that the gay community has the right to marry. Why shouldn’t they be as miserable as we heterosexuals. Sometimes wishing for something is better than having it.” — Clear Spring “To all the people out...Tags: Punishment, Religion and Belief, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Belief and Faith, Barack Obama
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FACTBOX-Who knew what when in the IRS 'Tea Party' scandal
ReutersMay 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has been under intense scrutiny since May 10, when the tax-collection agency acknowledged that workers had used partisan criteria to intensely scrutinize conservative groups' applications for tax-exempt...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Barack Obama, Jay Carney, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress
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Editorial: IRS stonewalling makes the case for a special prosecutor
"If you refuse to answer, you will leave us no choice but to ask for a special counsel or the appointment of a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of this. I hope that's not the approach of the IRS going forward, because there will be hell to pay."...
Tags: Eric Holder, Elections, U.S. Department of Justice, Orrin Hatch, Lewis Libby
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