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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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
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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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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington, D.C.
Holder: Justice Investigating IRS
Written with Richard Rubin and Phil Mattingly Attorney General Eric Holder said today that the Justice Department has opened an investigation of the IRS’s examination of conservative political organizations to see if any crimes were committed. Yet he said he...
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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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Tea Party supporters cheer at the Tea Party Unity Rally ahead of the Republican National Convention, in Tampa, Florida.
IRS Apology Draws Twitter Scorn
The Internal Revenue Service apologized for extra scrutiny of Tea Party groups this morning, sending Washington into a Twitter tizzy. Lois Lerner, the IRS’s director of exempt organizations, said at a conference the tax agency improperly flagged some anti-tax groups for...
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House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, talks prior to an interview at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on May 7, 2013.
Boehner: Slow Growth Can’t be ‘New Normal’
“We’ve had four years of slow and anemic job growth — and frankly, it’s unacceptable,” House Speaker John Boehner said today. The Ohio Republican attempted to turn the latest unemployment rate against the White House — 7.5 percent reported for...
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Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., right, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), walks with Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Vice Chairman, to a discussion of the JTC on the topic of reforming the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
Zero-Based Tax Reform: Camp, Baucus (‘Max and Dave’)
Welcome to Taxreform.gov — a new bipartisan entry on the Internet sponsored by Rep. Dave Camp, Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Camp says he is...
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Former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with her husband former president Bill Clinton as they attend the opening ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center on April 25, 2013 in Dallas, Texas.
Bill Clinton: Hillary 2016 Speculation Waste of Time
Bill Clinton says it’s a waste of time to speculate about his wife’s ambitions for 2016. “That is the worst expenditure of our time,” the former president said today at a 2013 Fiscal Summit sponsored by the Peterson Foundation. Hillary...
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The Oversight Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
Lawmakers Get 568 Pages of Tax Code Guidance
That thud you just heard was a 568-page pile of tax policy hitting desks around Washington. The nonpartisan congressional Joint Committee on Taxation released its summary today of the U.S. tax system (444 pages), various proposals to change it (45...
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