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Susan Ferrechio is the Washington Examiner's chief Congressional correspondent. She has previously reported for Congressional Quarterly and The Miami Herald.

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  • IRS apologizes for lavish conference spending, plastic fish

    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...

  • Tom Coburn: Treasury may have misled Congress about conference spending

    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...

  • IRS puts two employees on paid leave for accepting free food

    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...

  • IRS refuses to turn over documents on targeting to Senate

    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...

  • The 3-Minute Interview: Lee Hirsch, anti-bullying activist

    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...

  • IRS: $17k for artist to paint portraits of Michael Jordan, Bono

    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...

  • Audit finds IRS spent more than $4 million on a single employee conference

    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...

  • Democrat warns new IRS head not to ask for smaller budget

    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...

  • New IRS head calls agency targeting 'completely inexcusable'

    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...

  • Sen. Frank Lautenberg, last of Senate World War II vets, dies at 89

    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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