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GOP questions IRS scrutiny of anti-abortion groups
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the IRS asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs were...
Tags: Family Planning, Internal Revenue Service, Chuck Grassley, Career and Workplace, Employees
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IRS' last two commissioners deny lying; official to take the 5th
WASHINGTON — As the Internal Revenue Service's last two directors struggled to provide answers Tuesday about the agency's improper scrutiny of conservative groups, a lawyer for another key IRS official said she would invoke the 5th Amendment...Tags: Washington, DC, Barack Obama, John Cornyn, Crime, Law and Justice, Federal Election Commission
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Government dysfunction decried by Obama partly due to US founders and political polarization
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The works do seem to be "gummed up" on Capitol Hill. And President Barack Obama isn't the only one to say so. Yet despite years of hand-wringing in both parties, little progress has been made toward changing congressional rules on...Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Elections, Harry Reid, Interior Policy, Barack Obama
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FACTBOX-Four key questions in the unfolding IRS scandal
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Congressional and Justice Department investigators are examining the Internal Revenue Service over its inappropriate scrutiny of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. President Barack Obama, seeking...Tags: Labor Legislation, Washington, DC, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Jack Lew
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WRAPUP 1-IRS official refuses to answer questions at scandal hearing
ReutersBy Kim Dixon and Patrick Temple-West WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a tax scandal about extra scrutiny of conservative groups told a congressional hearing on Wednesday she had done nothing wrong...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Labor Legislation, Barack Obama, Photography and Video, Taxation
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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...Tags: Barack Obama, Internal Revenue Service, John Cornyn, U.S. Congress, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013)
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Lew: IRS acted alone in planted question about targeting Tea Party
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Tuesday that Internal Revenue Service employees acted alone in making public the agency's handling of tax exemptions for Tea Party groups and that he would have advised against it....Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Politics, Taxation
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Doyle McManus: Second-term scandal plague catches up to Obama
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...Tags: Elections, Benghazi, Barack Obama, Iran, Monica Lewinsky
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John Dean: Obama's scandals are more like Harding's than Nixon's
During President Barack Obama's May 16 news conference, reporter Jeff Mason asked as part of his question: "And, more broadly, how do you feel about comparisons by some of your critics of this week's scandals to those that happened under the Nixon...Tags: Benghazi, Barack Obama, Richard Nixon, White House, Bill Clinton
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Tea party activists rally against IRS in downtown Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Tea party activists have rallied outside a federal building in Louisville, chanting it's time for the IRS to go because of its extra scrutiny of conservative groups. Some waved flags and others held signs saying an apology...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Activism, Politics, Taxation
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COLUMN - It's not Watergate, it's Whitewater
Reuters(Nicholas Wapshott is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Nicholas Wapshott May 21 (Reuters) - The trifecta of scandals - Benghazi, the IRS and snooping on journalists - that has broken upon the heads of the Obama administration is...Tags: Elections, Benghazi, Barack Obama, Iran, Monica Lewinsky
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Column: It's not Watergate, it's Whitewater
Reuters(Reuters) - The trifecta of scandals — Benghazi, the IRS and snooping on journalists — that has broken upon the heads of the Obama administration is as bad as Watergate. No it isn't, says Bob Woodward, whose reputation was made by doggedly pursuing...Tags: Elections, Benghazi, Barack Obama, Iran, Monica Lewinsky
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