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Sean Higgins is senior editorial writer for The Washington Examiner. He was previously Washington correspondent for Investor's Business Daily. A Virginia native, he now lives in Arlington.

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  • Major GOP donor Sheldon Adelson scrutinized by IRS

    Sean Higgins

    Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

    You may remember the name Sheldon Adelson from the 2012 election. He was the casino mogul who donated $20 million to Newt Gingrich’s campaign. He’s been a generous donor to other conservative groups and causes. He donated at least $53 million in the last election, according to Forbes. Other...

  • Sean Higgins: Perez snubs Congress he wants to confirm him

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

    Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights, is set to have his nomination as secretary of labor voted on by a Senate committee Thursday. One question the senators might want to ask before they vote: Why is Perez ignoring a congressional subpoena? Last month, Republicans led by...

  • Walmart again files lawsuit against grocery workers union

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

    Walmart filed a lawsuit last week against the United Food and Commercial Workers  and group the union runs called OURWalmart, alleging the two have been staging illegal protests at the retail giant’s California stores. The suit claims the union activists were trespassing on the stores,...

  • Treasury workers union mum on IRS scandal

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

    Washington Post Federal Diary columnist Joe Davidson today looks at the question of who at the Internal Revenue Service might take the blame for the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups. One group that isn’t talking? The union that represents those workers: In cases like these, there’s...

  • Flashback: In 2010, White House divulged Koch Industries tax info

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

    Amid the revelations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted Tea Party groups for audits and that it improperly turned over unpublished information to the investigative news organization ProPublica, it is useful to remember a September, 2010 incident in which the administration divulged...

  • IRS sent unpublished info on conservative groups to investigative news outfit

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

    ProPublica, a left-leaning nonprofit organization that does investigative journalism, often sharing it with outlets like the Washington Post, offers its own revelation on the news that the Internal Revenue Service was targeting Tea Party groups. It was the recipient of some of the IRS documents....

  • Vitter calls for 'full audit' of IRS

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

    Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said in a statement mailed to reporters: The news of the IRS bias is terribly unsettling. If the IRS is discriminating against religious and conservative campaign groups, how can we trust it to objectively run Obamacare? An apology isn’t enough, and I’ll be going...


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