Look for some conversation in the Senate today about whether more than 100 amendments dealing with Environmental Protection Agency permitting authority are germane to the farm bill. Bloomberg BNA’s LaTrina Antoine and Amena H. Saiyid report that Democrat Kay Hagan...
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An Environmental Protection Agency contractor collects water samples for testing on May 31, 2010 near the point where the South Pass of the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico near Venice, Louisiana.
Are EPA Permits Germane to the Farm Bill?
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Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks about the Xbox 360 system during his keynote address at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada.
A Microsoft-Google Patent Case May Actually End?
By Susan Decker Microsoft could see the end of its almost three-year trade fight with Google’s Motorola Mobility unit over technology used in the popular Xbox video-gaming system. A U.S. International Trade Commission judge in March cleared Microsoft of a...
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Cayman Islands
Nonprofits: Cayman Islands of Political Money
Social welfare nonprofits, which can keep their donors secret, are a lot like Russian nesting dolls: Open one, and you’ll find a smaller version inside. That’s what courts in California discovered last year when they tried to figure out who...
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Steven Miller
IRS: Republicans’ Own Selective Examination: ‘Targets’
Speaking of the truth vs. the whole truth, House Republicans did some selective editing of an inspector general’s report during today’s hearing on the Internal Revenue Service. Steven Miller, the acting — and outgoing — commissioner of the Internal Revenue...
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters in Washington, D.C.
IRS Scandal Good for Tax Reform: Baucus, Camp, in Interview
Written with Peter Cook The scandal at the Internal Revenue Service is emboldening the chief congressional proponents for rewriting the tax code, they said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “This actually leads to new momentum for tax reform,” said...
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Danny Werfel, federal controller, Office of Management and Budget, testifies before a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in Hart Building on the impacts of the sequestration on his agency.
Obama Naming Werfel for IRS
Updated at 3:25 pm EDT President Barack Obama has picked Danny Werfel, controller of the Office of Management and Budget, as acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Werfel, 42, will replace Steven Miller, who was forced to resign yesterday...
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A vehicle and the surround buildings burn after they were set on fire inside the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi late on September 11, 2012.
Charge of the Obama Brigade: IRS, Benghazi, Reporters
President Barack Obama, addressing a live television audience from the White House, said the commissioner in charge of the IRS has been removed following the agency’s targeted scrutiny of conservative groups. “The misconduct uncovered is inexcuseable,” Obama said in a...
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President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, right, stand during the National Anthem as they attend the National Peace Officers Memorial Service, an annual ceremony honoring law enforcement who were killed in the line of duty in the previous year, on May 15, 2013.
Obama Thinks First, Acts Later: Carney
Has President Barack Obama not made his objections about the Internal Revenue Service’s handling of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status clear enough — as well as what he intends to do about it? The White House is getting roundly criticized...
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White House press secretary Jay Carney, rear, is seen on a television monitor during his daily news briefing at the White House.
Carney: ‘Scandals Metastasize’ — in the Industrial-Scandal Complex
In Washington, it’s often more the cover-up than the scandal that undoes a president. “And when it’s over, we’ll be hard-pressed to remember how it began.” So wrote Jay Carney, then a correspondent for Time magazine, in 2007, in the...
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Joe Biden
Biden Showing White House’s Hand on Keystone?
Was Vice President Joe Biden showing his hand — and thus the administration’s — on the Keystone Pipeline? A Sierra Club volunteer in South Carolina says Biden appeared to indicate his opposition to TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL in a brief conversation with her...
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