Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

As the House weighs legislation that would halt the controversial Frank Gehry plan for the Eisenhower Memorial, the chairman of the subcommittee with oversight over the project has requested documents showing how $63 million Congress already committed to the project has been spent. Rep. Rob...

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...

Updated: Wed, May 1, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee will hold a hearing next week on the bombing at the Boston Marathon that killed three and wounded more than 200 others. Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis is among those invited to testify at the hearing, to be held on May 9 by the House Homeland Security...