1 hr ago | The Las Vegas Sun
For Horsford, a delicate approach to oversight of scandals
Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee attend a hearing about last year's deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2013.
1 hr ago | NewsBusters.org
MSNBC's Finney On IRS Scandal: 'Why Didn't Romney Make More Of A Big Deal Of It?'
You can take the flack out of the DNC but you can't take the DNC out of the flack, especially it's MSNBC regular and newly-minted weekend host Karen Finney, who today said that Mitt Romney should have made a bigger deal out of the IRS scandal on the campaign trail.
1 hr ago | Examiner.com
Why ammunition supplies continue to be skimpy & wimpy
Got AMMO? That should be the TV commercial that all the gun rights organizations are running! It continues to be a challenge to get various types of ammunition all across the country.
4 hrs ago | Breitbart.com
Twisted Principles in the IRS Scandal
In today's hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government reform, IRS Exempt Organizations director Lois Lerner will be taking the Fifth.
5 hrs ago | WHDH
Broke no laws, IRS official says -- then takes 5th
At the center of a political storm, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents targeted conservative groups swore Wednesday she did nothing wrong, broke no laws and never lied to Congress.
9 hrs ago | Democratic Underground Latest Breakin...
IRS Inspector General, Darrell Issa Communicated Multiple Times In 2012
Source: Huffington Post WASHINGTON -- For all the outcry over who in the White House knew about an inspector general report detailing instances of the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups, it turns out someone else was getting regular updates on the issue over the past year: Rep.
10 hrs ago | Voice of America
IRS Official Refuses to Testify to Congress About Scandal
Director of Exempt Organizations for the Internal Revenue Service Lois Lerner departs with her legal team after being excused from a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on targeting of political groups seeking tax-exempt status fro The official at the center of the storm over the U.S. tax collection agency's targeting of ... (more)
10 hrs ago | Examiner.com
Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy is not amused by IRS official testimony
Today in testimony before the United States Congress the IRS official, Lois Lerner, who oversees the department that President Barack Obama vowed to get answers from for targeting Republicans pleaded the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution to avoid giving answers.
10 hrs ago | National Review Online
Jillian Kay Melchior: The EPA's Conservative Problem
The agency has rubber-stamped fee-waiver requests from environmentalist groups seeking information, but it denied similar requests from conservative groups, an extensive examination of EPA correspondence suggests.
11 hrs ago | Jerusalem Post
Washington Watch: Is Hillary inevitable?
It seems all we're hearing from the political mavens these days is how Hillary Clinton is not only the inevitable 2016 Democratic nominee but a shoo-in as the next president.
12 hrs ago | MarketWatch
Lew quizzed over super-council's secrecy
A lawmaker on Wednesday pestered a key Obama administration official about a systemic risk super-council charged with identifying risks to the economy, arguing the group's vital proceedings lack transparency.
13 hrs ago | NH Insider
HotAir Daily Express 05/21/2013
At the end of the Benghazi hearing in the House Oversight Committee almost two weeks ago,chair Darrell Issa welcomed anyone else with knowledge of what happened before, during, and after the terrorist attack on the consulate to come forward and testify.
18 hrs ago | The Hill
Issa and IRS: What Issa knew and when he knew it
Rep. Darrell Issa was one of the first officials in Washington to know of the existence and substance of the inspector general's report on the Internal Revenue Service.
22 hrs ago | Politico
Pro Report, presented by POWERJOBS: Lerner pleads the Fifth - Tale of ...
WELCOME TO THE PRO REPORT, where we have a boatload of news for you: the latest on the IRS hearings , the Capitol Hill smackdown on Apple and the Oklahoman aid political rumblings already starting to buzz.
Last Thursday, Congressman Darrell Issa started a Twitter prairie fire with his call for people to describe #ObamacareInThreeWords . Other gems included "Max Baucus regrets," "A massive failure," "Rammed down throats" and the extremely uncomfortable proof of Godwin's Law , "Arbeit. Macht.
Chattanooga Tea Party protests outside IRS
Brandishing flags and handmade signs, Chattanooga Tea Party members gathered Tuesday under the noonday sun in front of local offices for the Internal Revenue Service.
IRS official to take the 5th at House hearing
Summoned by Congress, a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination and decline to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
New DATA Act, Same Standards and Transparency Push
Emerging tools have made an agile approach easier, but there is plenty of work to be done in terms of refining enterprise BI methods.
Lawmakers to Investigate Epa Foia Obstruction
Republican lawmakers are launching an investigation into claims that the Environmental Protection Agency, while giving preferential treatment to environmental groups, made it harder for conservative groups to obtain government records.
Andrew Stiles: A Partisan Union at the IRS
The White House continues to insist that profound incompetence, not partisan malice, led the IRS to single out conservative groups applying for nonprofit status.