Susan Ferrechio
Chief Congressional Correspondent
Susan Ferrechio is the Washington Examiner's chief Congressional correspondent. She has previously reported for Congressional Quarterly and The Miami Herald.
Obama calls for major cuts to nuclear arsenals
By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/19/13 11:00 AM
Obama ‘not surprised’ by Karzai’s abrupt suspension of talks with US
By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/19/13 10:10 AM
Germany visit showcases a tale of two Obamas
By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/18/13 06:05 PM
By JIM KUHNHENN | 06/20/13 04:47 AM
By ROBERT BURNS | 06/20/13 01:35 AM
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CBO: Senate immigration bill would expand Obamacare
By PHILIP KLEIN | 06/18/13 07:30 PM
Federal Reserve meeting begins amid uncertainty over monetary policy
By JOSEPH LAWLER | 06/18/13 04:00 PM
CBO score of immigration bill’s effect on the budget comes out tomorrow
By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/17/13 07:10 PM
Examiner Editorial: Despite reassurances, surveillance doubts remain
06/19/13 06:06 AM
Examiner Editorial: Only you can prevent terrorists from starting forest fires
06/18/13 06:22 AM
Examiner Editorial: Obama puts up dukes and blunders into Syria
06/17/13 10:35 AM
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Lawmakers seek credit monitoring for veterans
06/14/13 03:11 PM
UPDATED! Chinese, other nations hacked VA computers, officials can't account for everything stolen
By MARK FLATTEN | 06/04/13 02:40 PM
Deaths at Atlanta VA hospital prompt scrutiny
05/25/13 08:50 PM
Susan Ferrechio is the Washington Examiner's chief Congressional correspondent. She has previously reported for Congressional Quarterly and The Miami Herald.
By Susan Ferrechio | 06/06/13 07:00 PM
Top Internal Revenue Service officials on Thursday struggled to explain to congressional lawmakers why the agency spent $64,000 on plastic squirting fish and other "swag bag" trinkets during an over-the-top employee conference that cost taxpayers $4.1 million. IRS managers apologized Thursday...
By Susan Ferrechio | 06/05/13 07:20 PM
A U.S. senator is questioning whether the Treasury Department purposely misled Congress by concealing a history of excessive government spending on lavish employee conferences. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., has asked a Treasury auditor to look into why the department told Coburn a year ago that it...
By Susan Ferrechio | 06/05/13 06:10 PM
The Internal Revenue Service has put two employees on administrative leave for inappropriately receiving free food while at an IRS conference in Anaheim, Calif., in 2010. According to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, which is investigating IRS conferences, the two...
By Susan Ferrechio | 06/04/13 06:40 PM
The Internal Revenue Service has failed to turn over documents requested by the powerful Senate tax-writing panel, which is investigating the tax agency's practice of targeting conservative organizations. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the...
By Susan Ferrechio | 06/04/13 04:22 PM
Hirsch created of the film "Bully" and The Bully Project, a social action campaign aimed at ending bullying in schools across America. He will speak Wednesday at the National Press Club in downtown D.C. Why did you create this project? I was bullied as a kid. And I became a filmmaker. Making...
By Susan Ferrechio | 06/04/13 03:32 PM
Hiring an artist to paint portraits of Bono and Michael Jordan is just one of the unique ways the Internal Revenue Service spent $49 million on employee conferences over a two year period, according to a just-disclosed audit report. Page 12 of the 63-page report, issued Tuesday, documents...
By Susan Ferrechio | 06/04/13 12:55 PM
The Internal Revenue Service spent $4.1 million on a single employee conference held in Anaheim, Calif., in 2010, one of 225 such events held over a two-year period at a cost to taxpayers of nearly $50 million. According to a 63-page report authored by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax...
By Susan Ferrechio | 06/04/13 08:20 AM
A Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee Monday told acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Daniel Werfel to change his testimony after Werfel suggested Congress refrain from increasing the agency’s budget. Newly appointed Werfel earned the admiration of Republicans in his...
By Susan Ferrechio | 06/03/13 08:05 PM
The man appointed to temporarily run the embattled Internal Revenue Service told a House subcommittee on Monday that he received orders from President Obama to "get to the bottom" of a widening scandal involving the agency's targeting of conservative groups. Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel...
By Susan Ferrechio | 06/03/13 10:40 AM
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., died Monday at age 89, his office announced. Lautenberg, one of the Senate’s most liberal members, had been ill in recent weeks and absent from Congress. He did not plan to run for re-election in 2014. Lautenberg served twice in the Senate, his first three-term...
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By: William Kristol
Today, speaking at the Brandenburg Gate, President Obama paid appropriate tribute to the brave East Germans who rebelled 60 years ago against Communist dictatorship:
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The Boston Marathon bombings highlighted, once again, the challenges of assimilating Muslim youth. And while the onus of accountability ought not rest exclusively on Muslim Americans, it...
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The Obama administration announced on Tuesday that it was moving forward with its attempt to negotiate with the Taliban, which has opened a long-awaited political office in Doha, Qatar. The...
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