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The crowd cheers for Rep. Michele Bachmann during a Tea Party Patriots rally on June 19, 2013, on the west front of the Capitol to protest the IRS' targeting of conservative political groups.

Filling in for Alex Wagner , The Grio editor Joy-Ann Reid engaged in a heated exchange with her panel guests on Wednesday after she insisted that the Internal Revenue Service as an institution should not be implicated in the scandal surrounding the targeting of conservatives.

Two House chairmen applauded the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service for shuttering three post offices in the Capitol complex.

The IRS went wild. Five weeks after the IRS acknowledged at least one of its offices scrutinized conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, lawmakers are still trying to sort out the facts.

"I will have you physically removed if you don't stop!" "You should be ashamed of yourself!" -- Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, reproving Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Ronald Weich for providing "blank pages" of discovery on the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal.

Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, left, testifies before the House Financial and General Government Subcommittee with Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George, right, on Capitol Hill on Monday, June 3, in Washington.

An Internal Revenue Service manager and self-described conservative Republican said the close scrutiny of tea party groups' tax forms originated in his Cincinnati IRS office and not in Washington, according to a full transcript of his interview by congressional investigators released Tuesday.

A manager from a U.S. Internal Revenue Service office in Cincinnati where staffers have been accused of unfairly subjecting conservative groups to extra scrutiny has said his agents were not influenced by any political agenda.

John Shafer, a manager in the IRS' Cincinnati field office, has told congressional investigators that the scrutiny of tea party bases started as 'normal business' in early 2010.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Government Oversight Committee, delivers on his promise to call committee Chairman Darrell Issa's bluff: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have just released a full transcript of testimony from a key witness in the investigation of IRS targeting of conservatives - and it appears to ... (more)

Rep. Elijah Cummings , ranking member of the committee, released interview transcripts in which an IRS manager in Cincinnati said he elevated the first tea party case that led the agency to begin singling out conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Government Oversight Committee, delivers on his promise to call committee Chairman Darrell Issa's bluff: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have just released a full transcript of testimony from a key witness in the investigation of IRS targeting of conservatives - and it appears to ... (more)

The hearing with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will be the second of its kind this year.

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It is hoped that Big Chuck will not be ejected from Daily Kos for suggesting that we should consider letting states opt out of Obamcare.

Internal Revenue Service director of rulings and agreements Holly Paz explained that the IRS simply used "tea party" as shorthand for politically-involved groups in profiling non-profit applicants.

Today, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste praised members of the House of Representatives for agreeing to amendment #117, the Federal IT Procurement Reform Act , to the fiscal year 2014 National Defense Authorization Act .

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa subpoenaed documents from a controversial ObamaCare program on Friday after charging that the Obama administration had denied his request several times.

President Barack Obama has shown "disdain" for Congress by not honoring its subpoenas, Sen. John McCain wrote to the president.

Over the weekend, USA Today reported on revelations that an agency executive in D.C. admitted to reviewing Tea Party applications.