Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is adding his voice to those trying to tie the ongoing Internal Revenue Service scandal to the new health-care law, which will expand coverage to more than 25 million uninsured Americans. McConnell, of Kentucky, called for...
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Christina King, left, and Lynne Sherrer, center, hold signs during a Tea Party Internal Revenue Service (IRS) demonstration on May 21, 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
McConnell Joins Effort to Tie Health-Care Law to IRS Scandal
McCain, Tea Party Senators Squabble Over Budget Procedure
Fractures in the Republican Party were in plain view on the Senate floor today as Sens. John McCain, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz argued over the U.S. budget and debt ceiling processes. “Does my colleague from Florida believe that the...
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Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, left, and former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman confer during a break in testimony before the Senate Finance Committee May 21, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Watchdog Group Files Second Lawsuit Against IRS
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has again sued the Internal Revenue Service over its regulation of nonprofits incorporated under Section 501(c)(4) of the tax code. The watchdog group is asking the U.S. District Court to direct the IRS to draft...
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IRS protesters on May 21, 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Tea Party activists organized the protest against the Internal Revenue Service saying they improperly targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.
IRS Was Wrong to Target Tea Party Groups, ABC-Post Poll Shows
Almost three-fourths of Americans think it was “inappropriate” for the Internal Revenue Service to target Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll out today. A majority of respondents said the government was harassing those organizations. The survey of 1,001...
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Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, right, greets Douglas Shulman, commissioner of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, prior to a hearing about tax policies relating to Ponzi schemes before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on March 17, 2009.
Baucus: Senate Will Get to Bottom of IRS Case
Senator Max Baucus, chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, said a formal investigation by his panel will get to the bottom of who at the Internal Revenue Service selectively screened groups applying for tax-exempt status based in part on...
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Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George, left, and Former Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service Steve Miller testify during a hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee on May 17, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
IRS Planted the Question that Started Scandal
The Internal Revenue Service wrote and planted the question asked on May 10 that led to the IRS scandal, the questioner said in a statement today. Celia Roady, a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Washington, said that...
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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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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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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
White House: No Role in IRS Tea Party Exam, AP Saga News to Them
The White House was asked this question today about the IRS probe of conservative nonprofit groups: Can you say categorically that nobody at the White House and nobody on the president’s political team had any knowledge or was involved in...
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A Tea Party Express rally prior to the arrival of former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in Phoenix.
IRS to Tea Party Groups: Tell Us Everything
The Internal Revenue Service had questions. Lots of questions. The U.S. tax agency has acknowledged targeting anti-tax groups with “Tea Party” or “patriot” in their names for extra scrutiny — an admission that has Congress asking questions of its own....
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