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What was the IRS thinking?
Well, this is a fine mess. After years of moaning about various "conspiracies" against them, conservative activists finally have a real (i.e., not manufactured by Fox or inflated by Rush Limbaugh) piece of evidence to take before the court of public...Tags: The Miami Herald, Rush Limbaugh, Taxation, Internal Revenue Service, Politics
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Report blames IRS scandal on lax oversight, confused staff
WASHINGTON -- The growing scandal at the IRS stemmed from a confused staff and lax oversight, according to an eagerly awaited inspector general’s report released Tuesday shortly after federal authorities began a criminal investigation into...Tags: Jay Carney, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Politics
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Budget surpluses spur tension in some GOP states, including Michigan
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Turns out that cutting was the easy part. Now Republicans who control a majority of the state capitols in the United States face a far greater philosophical dilemma — what to do with all the money when an improving...
Tags: Republican Party, St. Louis, National Government, Elections, John D. Rockefeller IV
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Holder pledges to probe IRS handling of conservative groups
WASHINGTON – Testifying on Capitol Hill, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. promised a thorough criminal investigation of the targeting of conservative organizations by the IRS that will look at potential civil rights violations and false statements that...
Tags: Steve Chabot, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Justice System, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
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Guillermo Martinez: Immigration currently takes back seat, but Rubio's task remains hard
The second term curse that many believe affect many presidents has kept discussion of President Barack Obama's agenda off the front pages and out of the television newscasts. Instead of covering the budget sequestration, journalists are covering what...Tags: Jay Carney, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Immigration, Elections
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Acting IRS commissioner resigns, Obama says
WASHINGTON – President Obama announced the resignation Wednesday evening of Steven Miller, acting commissioner of the embattled Internal Revenue Service, a move the president said was essential to restore the public’s faith following...
Tags: U.S. Senate, White House, Mitch McConnell, Taxation, Marco Rubio
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Plugging leaks the right way
When it comes to prosecutors' investigations of leaks, you can count on journalists to dispense with impartiality and scream bloody murder. Upon learning that the Justice Department had seized the phone records of its reporters, The Associated Press...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Republican Party, Judges, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress
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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: Parties and Movements, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Eric Holder
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U.S. Republican targets IRS employees in Tea Party probe
ReutersBy Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Republicans probing the Internal Revenue Service want to question five employees about the tax agency's targeting of the Tea Party and other conservative groups, an effort that a key lawmaker said on...Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Career and Workplace, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress
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COLUMN: Watergate's lesson forgotten
Washington Post Writers Group"He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to . . . cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory...Tags: Richard Nixon, Jay Carney, Parties and Movements, George Will, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013)
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Not such strange bedfellows
— Breaking news: Conservative organizations suddenly have found common cause with one of their favorite objects of contempt — the benighted mainstream media. Or as the tea party queen and former Alaska governor likes to put it, the...Tags: Richard Nixon, Al-Qaeda, Parties and Movements, The Washington Post, National Government
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Dems, GOP raise concerns over subpoenas to AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of a House panel told Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday that they had serious concerns about the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at The Associated Press. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman...Tags: Civil Rights, Parties and Movements, National Government, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress
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