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Mark Tapscott is The Washington Examiner's executive editor. He oversees the daily work of the newspaper's special reporting team. He was inducted into the National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame in 2006. Before joining The Examiner in 2006, he started and led the Heritage Foundation's Computer-Assisted Research and Reporting (CARR) Boot Camps. He formerly held editing and reporting positions with The Journal Newspapers and The Washington Times.

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  • DATA Act would shine new sunlight on federal spending

    Mark Tapscott

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are in the headlines this week as a result of today's hearing on the IRS scandal, but the panel did something else significant on May 10 that could prove far more significant in the long run. That's the day the committee made...

  • House members unite on new, bipartisan term limits proposal

    Mark Tapscott

    Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

    Limiting how many terms members of Congress can serve has long been among the most popular proposals with American voters, but opposition from entrenched incumbents in both political parties has prevented adoption of the idea in law.

  • UPDATED: IRS tax exemption/Obamacare exec got $103,390 in bonuses; Did Obama OK them?

    Mark Tapscott

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative tea party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harrassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012. More recently, Ingram was promoted to serve as director...

  • IRS exec got $42k in bonuses in three years

    Mark Tapscott

    Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

    Lois Lerner, the senior executive in charge of the IRS tax exemption department and the person at the center of the exploding scandal over the IRS targeting conservative, evangelical and pro-Israel non-profits, has been given $42,531 in bonuses since 2009. That figure was included in data...

  • Huelskamp thrashes VA bureaucrat who got big bonuses for lousy work

    Mark Tapscott

    Updated: Tue, May 7, 2013

    Want to see how congressional oversight is supposed to work? Check out this video of Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-KS, grilling Department of Veterans Affairs Glenn Haggstrom about why he received nearly $55,000 in performance bonuses despite overseeing a unit that chronically underestimated costs and...

  • Remember the Alamo! Today is Texas Independence Day

    Mark Tapscott

    Published: Sat, Apr 20, 2013

    It's a day that has often been left in the shadow of the Alamo in the national historical consciousness, but April 21 is among the most important days on the calendar in the history of one of America's most illustrious states, Texas. It only took about 15 minutes but a volunteer force of...

  • Think Obama's budget is bad? Bush was a bigger spender

    Mark Tapscott

    Published: Tue, Apr 9, 2013

    President Obama's two-month-late federal budget proposal is drawing substantial criticism from Republicans in Congress and elsewhere, but Chris Edwards, the Cato Institute's budget-numbers master, offers a timely reminder - President George W. Bush was a bigger spender. Edwards points to the...

  • Examiner's Obamacare Solyndra co-ops probe featured on Greta Van Susteren/Fox News

    Mark Tapscott

    Published: Fri, Apr 5, 2013

    Watchdog’s Richard Pollock was featured on FOX News yesterday for his reporting on the questionable grants for Obamacare exchanges. Pollock discovered that federal officials approved Obamacare loans totaling $127 million last year to groups led by individuals whose backgrounds included an...


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