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  • 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...

  • President Obama's mental health summit underscores disadvantage on guns

    By Brian Hughes | 06/03/13 07:40 PM

    President Obama on Monday addressed the stigma surrounding mental illness, an issue that received little White House attention during the push for new firearms restrictions but is now getting a second look following the stinging defeat of the president's gun control measures. Obama convened a...

  • Obama and Google swap staff

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/03/13 07:10 PM

    Washington’s think tanks often serve as incubators for administrations-in-waiting. Leave the White House when Democrats take over, spend four or eight years waiting at Heritage or American Enterprise Institute. Lose your Treasury job thanks to a Republican winning, sit tight at Brookings. Sure...

  • Byron York: Giuliani fears surge in crime under next New York City mayor

    By Byron York | 06/03/13 06:55 PM

    "I knew I was elected for one reason, to reduce crime," recalls Rudy Giuliani of his 1993 election as mayor of New York. "If I didn't reduce crime, I was going to be thrown out of office. If I did, I would probably succeed." He succeeded, spectacularly. In recent years, after two terms as...

  • House Dem: If IRS budget gets cut, they will target you more

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/03/13 04:10 PM

    Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y., called for an increase in IRS funding, on the theory that budget cuts will “promote more scandals” at the agency that recently admitted to targeting small-government conservatives for inappropriate reviews. “There is no clearer way to promote more scandals than...

  • Immigration bill lacks the 60 Senate votes needed to pass

    By David M. Drucker | 06/03/13 04:10 PM

    The immigration reform bill headed to the Senate floor lacks the 60 votes it needs to advance and will likely have to be partially rewritten to win congressional approval, proponents of the bill said. Democratic and Republican sources working to build support for the bill agreed that garnering...

  • House panel: Report finds $50M for IRS conferences

    By ALAN FRAM | 06/03/13 01:55 AM

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- A government watchdog has found that the Internal Revenue Service spent about $50 million to hold at least 220 conferences for employees between 2010 and 2012, a House committee said Sunday. The chairman of that committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., also released excerpts...

  • NYT: Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama are Eric Holder’s ‘saving grace’

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/02/13 04:35 PM

    The New York Times this weekend examines Eric Holder’s tenure as Attorney General, noting that his “saving grace” in the White House is First Lady Michelle Obama and President Obama’s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. His saving grace through years of controversies has been the...

  • IRS targeted donors to GOP group, too

    By Sean Higgins | 06/02/13 01:35 PM

    In addition to targeting conservative-leaning nonprofit groups, in at least one case the Internal Revenue Service took the extra step of targeting a group’s donors as well, the Wall Street Journal reports: At the same time the Internal Revenue Service was targeting tea-party groups, the tax...

  • How big government creates a new class of the super rich

    By Sean Higgins | 06/02/13 01:25 PM

    Don’t tell Paul Krugman, but Washington’s spending splurge on bigger government has resulted in a new class of the upper, upper-income earners. The Wall Street Journal documents it all in a story headlined: “What Sequester? Washington Booms As a New Gilded Age Takes Root.” The new...


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