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Tea Party leaders vent anger at IRS for targeting them
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
Tea Party leaders from around the country gathered in Washington Thursday to vent outrage at the Internal Revenue Service for targeting them and other conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt...
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Politics Digest, Congress, Politics
Eric Holder calls IRS scrutiny of conservative groups 'outrageous'
Published: Wed, May 15, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder said Internal Revenue Service employees may have committed criminal civil rights violations when they targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. Holder,...
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Politics Digest, Congress, Politics
Report: IRS targeting conservative groups since 2010
Published: Tue, May 14, 2013
Internal Revenue Service employees were told as early as 2010 to "Be On the Look Out" for Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations seeking tax exempt status, according to a lengthy...
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Politics Digest, Congress, Politics
Congress to probe IRS targeting of conservative groups
Published: Mon, May 13, 2013
Irate lawmakers vowed Monday to hold congressional hearings on the Internal Revenue Service after the tax agency admitted that it closely scrutinized the tax-exempt status of conservative groups...
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Politics Digest, Congress, Politics
Immigration reform backers struggling to build support in Senate
Published: Sun, May 12, 2013
The Senate will spend this week reshaping an immigration-reform bill in hopes of building bipartisan support for the measure. But that detailed scrutiny of the measure is scaring off the very...
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Congress, Politics
Boston officials say FBI failed to warn them about bombers
Published: Thu, May 9, 2013
Boston authorities could have prevented last month's deadly Boston Marathon bombings if federal law enforcement agencies had adequately shared information and followed through on warnings about...
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Obamacare, Congress, Beltway Confidential, Politics
Boehner, McConnell won’t appoint members to Medicare savings panel
Published: Thu, May 9, 2013
House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, both Republicans, sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday announcing that they will not appoint anyone to the...
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From WeeklyStandard.com
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Ideological Revenue Service
By: Mark Hemingway
With three different scandals threatening to consume the White House last week—the Benghazi cover-up, the Justice Department’s seizure of the phone records of dozens of Associated Press...
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The Real Scandal
By: William Kristol
Everyone in Washington, except those in the crosshairs, likes a good scandal, and THE WEEKLY STANDARD is no exception. What’s more, in the case of the Obama administration, comeuppance is well...
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When It Rains, It Pours
By: Fred Barnes
There is no curse on the second term of presidents. When presidents lose credibility, when trust vanishes and their word is no longer accepted, they have only themselves to blame. That was true...