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As the White House obfuscated and IRS officer Lois Lerner plead the Fifth, calls for a special prosecutor grew louder in the nation's capital this week.

"This systematic abuse cannot be fixed with just one resignation, or two," said David Camp, the Republican chairman of the House tax-writing committee, at an oversight hearing dealing with the IRS.

The national controversy involving revelations that the IRS has subjected conservative groups to extra scrutiny in their applications for tax-exempt status has evolved into a fill-in-the-blanks scandal for Republicans, who have substituted their own narrative for every gap in the Obama administration's explanation for the abuses.

Lois Lerner is sworn in before testifying to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday, May 22, in Washington.

Speaker of the House John Boehner said he will let the House Ways and Means Committee determine whether to subpoena crucial documents from the Internal Revenue Service and the White House that would reveal what the administration knew about the agency's targeting of conservative groups.

May 24, 2013 - As tax discussions continue on Capitol Hill, NAFCU continues to reiterate the importance of retaining the credit union tax exemption, most recently in letters sent yesterday to the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees.

The Capitol Hill hearing on the IRS scandal this week upstaged another Senate investigation into how U.S. technology companies shelter earnings from domestic taxes.

Democratic Senator Carl Levin said an overhaul of the U.S. tax code would be difficult to accomplish and instead lawmakers should focus on curbing "unjustified" tax breaks.

Prominent House conservatives are insisting that any increase in the debt limit be tied to cuts or changes in entitlement programs and mandatory spending, rather than just a tax overhaul, potentially complicating GOP leadership efforts to work out an agreement with Democrats to avoid a default.

Coming so closely together, the revelations that the IRS made severe missteps during the 2012 election cycle and that Apple employs offshore tax shelters make a fairly good case for a broad overhaul of the United States' tax system.

Tea party members protest in front of the John Weld Peck Federal Building in Cincinnati, Ohio, during a nationwide protest at IRS offices on May 21, 2013.

Recently, U.S. Rep. Dave Camp, R-Midland, wrote a letter about the merits of Common Core .

Apple CEO Tim Cook laughs during a Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21, 2013.

Republicans are getting tripped up by the media when challenged about evidence of President Obama's personal involvement in the IRS scandal.

Major trade legislation appears increasingly likely to clear Congress this year despite an intensely partisan atmosphere made worse by scandals plaguing President Barack Obama's administration.

He doesn't work in Washington and has no legal influence on what happens there, but Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette sticks his nose into the IRS scandal dogging the Obama administration.

Tim Cook , Apple's chief executive, defended the technology giant's tax practices, which Senate investigators say have led Apple to pay no corporate taxes on tens of billions of dollars in overseas income over the past four years.

The Internal Revenue Service has given no indication to the House Ways and Means Committee about whether it will respond to the bipartisan demand of Chairman Dave Camp and Ranking Member Sander Levin--delivered in writing last Tuesday, May 14-that by today, Tuesday, May 21, the agency answer thirteen questions posed by the committee relating to IRS ... (more)

Former three-term Republican U.S. Senator Judd Gregg, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's new chief executive officer, said Monday that he wants to improve the image of the industry and make sure Dodd-Frank rules are focused and not overly burdensome.

Two senior aides to President Barack Obama knew weeks ago about a watchdog report on the U.S. Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups, a spokesman said on Monday, shifting the focus to the White House in a fast-moving controversy.