Susan Ferrechio

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 status and threatened to sue the agency for damages. "They lost membership and donations, they...

Susan Ferrechio

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, in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, labeled as "outrageous" the revelations in a...

Susan Ferrechio

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 inspector general report released Tuesday. An investigation by the Treasury Department's inspector...

Susan Ferrechio

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 that opposed President Obama and other Democrats. The Republican-run House Ways and Means Committee...

Susan Ferrechio

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 lawmakers that its authors hoped to win over. By the time the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on the...

Susan Ferrechio

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 accused bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, witnesses told Congress Thursday. "I believe that...

Susan Ferrechio

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 Independent Payment Advisory Board, known as IPAB. The 15-member panel is tasked with reducing the cost of...

Susan Ferrechio

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

Eyewitnesses to September's deadly terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya told a congressional committee Wednesday that State Department officials had blocked efforts to aid Americans under fire and later tried to conceal al Qaeda's involvement. Mark Thompson, acting deputy assistant...

Bruce Smith

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Former Republican South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford revived a scandal-scarred political career by winning back his old congressional seat Tuesday in a district that hasn't elected a Democrat in three decades. The comeback was complete when he defeated Democrat Elizabeth...

Susan Ferrechio

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

Senators who support expanding criminal background checks for gun buyers said Tuesday that they intend to revive the legislation for a vote by this summer, though the measure won't be exactly the same as the one senators defeated a month ago. The Senate last month fell four votes shy of...