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2 hrs ago | Slate Magazine

Scandal 2.0

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Tea Party, Tax, US Politics, Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican, US House of Representatives, Dave Camp

5 hrs ago | Mediaite.com

Joy-Ann Reid Battles MSNBC Panel Over Her Insistence That IRS Did Not Target Conservatives

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.

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Related Topix: Tax, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Republican, Television

9 hrs ago | The Hill

GOP chairs applaud shuttering of Capitol post offices

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

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Related Topix: The Postal Service, Indie, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives

13 hrs ago | St. Cloud Times

Our View: Tax-takers living large on our coin

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.

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Related Topix: Tax, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Politics, US News, Anaheim, CA

17 hrs ago | Westside Today

Republican Congressman Darrell Issa -- He Fights For Us

"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.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Henry Waxman, Democrat, Los Angeles, CA

Tue Jun 18, 2013

CNN

Shifting polls contradict deposition

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.

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Related Topix: Tax, US Politics, US News, Dave Camp, Republican, US House of Representatives, us Travel, Travel

Seattle Times

IRS worker: No political bias against tea party

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.

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Related Topix: Tax, US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Elijah Cummings, Democrat, Barack Obama

Reuters

'Conservative Republican' at IRS defends treatment of Tea Party

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.

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Related Topix: Tax, US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Tea Party, Elijah Cummings, Democrat

USA Today

Republican at Cincinnati IRS: Scrutiny was 'normal'

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.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Elijah Cummings, Democrat

Daily Kos

Cummings releases full transcript of IRS screening manager interview

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)

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Elijah Cummings, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Republican, Liberal Political News

The Washington Post

Rep. Cummings releases a full IRS interview

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.

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Related Topix: US House of Representatives, US Politics, Democrat, Elijah Cummings, US News, Republican

Daily Kos

Cummings releases full transcript of IRS screening manager interview

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)

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Elijah Cummings, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Republican, Barack Obama

The Washington Post

Hearing will examine 'reinventing government'

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

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Related Topix: Republican, US House of Representatives, US Politics, US News

Daily Kos

The Morning F Bomb

It's Eat Your Vegetables Day? Do you? What veggies do you love? What veggies do you hate? Where do you stand in the War on Drugs? Do you advocate for any or all legalization? Please remember: we have a government, a president, and politics, but you have a regime, a strongman, and sectarian interests.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Republican, Marin County, CA

Daily Kos

Let the Red States Opt out of Obama Care?

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.

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Related Topix: African-American, US Governors, Jan Brewer, US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Liberal Political News

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Breitbart.com

IRS: 'Tea Party' Was Shorthand for Political

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.

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Related Topix: Tax, Non-Profit, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Politics, US News

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CCAGW Applauds House for FITARA Approval

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 .

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Related Topix: Republican, US House of Representatives, US Politics, US News

The Hill

Issa subpoenas ObamaCare files

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.

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Related Topix: Republican, US House of Representatives, US Politics, US News, Maine

Politico

McCain hits Obama over private e-mails

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

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, US Senate, John McCain, Republican, US House of Representatives, Mitch McConnell

The Atlantic

Darrel Issa's Plan to Resuscitate the IRS Scandal

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

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Related Topix: Tax, US News, Tea Party, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Elijah Cummings, Democrat, The Washington Post Company