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Sean Higgins is a senior editorial writer for the Washington Examiner. He was previously Washington correspondent for Investor's Business Daily.

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  • IRS sent unpublished info on conservative groups to investigative news outfit

    By Sean Higgins | 05/13/13 07:15 PM

    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....

  • Darrell Issa: 'Top Obama Administration officials increasingly see themselves as above the law'

    By Sean Higgins | 05/13/13 06:40 PM

    In a statement emailed to reporters, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., had the following reaction to the news that the Justice Department secretly obtained Associated Press phone records: This is obviously disturbing. Coming within a week of...

  • Vitter calls for 'full audit' of IRS

    By Sean Higgins | 05/13/13 06:10 PM

    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...

  • House Oversight Committee: Thomas Perez still not complying with subpoena over emails

    By Sean Higgins | 05/13/13 05:25 PM

    House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., sent a letter last week demanding that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, the administration’s top civil rights enforcer, turn over all private...

  • White House secretly obtained two months of Associated Press phone records

    By Sean Higgins | 05/13/13 04:45 PM

    The Associated Press reports: The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the...

  • New York Times applauded the IRS last year for targeting Tea Party groups

    By Sean Higgins | 05/13/13 04:15 PM

    The New York Times has been noticeably unenthusiastic in covering the IRS/Tea Party scandal. A news story about it on their web page now is headlined: “IRS focus on conservatives give G.O.P. an issue to seize on.” As far as it is concerned, the big issue here is that the IRS’s abuses may...

  • Tea Party group compiles clip of Obama calling its finances into question

    By Sean Higgins | 05/13/13 03:25 PM

      Americans for Prosperity, a leading conservative small government group, compiled the above clip of President Obama attacking them and calling their finances into question. AFP was one of the groups that the Internal Revenue Service was pressing Tea Party groups to explain their...

  • Nothing new under the sun: Looking back at the IRS’ 1990s political abuses

    By Sean Higgins | 05/13/13 02:55 PM

    As Washington continues to digest the news that the Internal Revenue Service was targeting for audits groups with the words like “Tea Party,” “Patriots” or “We the People” in their name, it is as good of a time as any to look back at 1999, the last time it was revealed the agency was...

  • Ruling on NLRB recess appointments could void 1,569 cases

    By Sean Higgins | 05/13/13 12:20 PM

    Or about 673 published decisions and 896 unpublished ones. That is the conclusion reached by a National Right To Work Legal Foundation study of cases where the National Labor Relations Board reached a ruling without having a valid legal quorum. An Appeals Court ruled in the January...

  • Top Dem calls on Labor nominee Thomas Perez to release emails

    By Sean Higgins | 05/10/13 12:45 PM

    Rep. Elijah Cummings,  D-Md., the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, joined Chairman Darrell Issa in demanding that the White House’s nominee to be labor secretary, Thomas Perez, turn over some 1,200 private emails. The change is notable because...


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