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The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency's targeting of conservative groups told Congress on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong in the episode, and then invoked her constitutional right to refuse to answer lawmakers' questions.

Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House committee that probed the IRS scandal today, told PJ Media that the agency's targeting of conservative groups is "not at all" like Watergate.

Former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman said he believes he did not have any conversations with the White House about his agency's targeting of conservative groups that had applied for tax-exemption status.

Top Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings admitted during a House hearing today that the IRS inappropriately and possibly illegally targeted conservative groups during the 2012 election.

A bill to change the way federal government spending data is reported was formally introduced in the House and the Senate on May 21.

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A House committee taking Congress' latest look at the Internal Revenue Service's mistreatment of tea party groups will apparently have to do so without input from the star witness.

Emerging tools have made an agile approach easier, but there is plenty of work to be done in terms of refining enterprise BI methods.

A party celebrated the release of Lanny Davis's book Crisis Tales: Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics, and Life .

In the latest development in the fluid Benghazi investigation, the two retired luminaries who chaired the State Department's outside review of the government's handling of the September 2012 attack in Libya reiterated their refusal to comply with a House committee chairman's demand that they testify behind closed doors.

In this Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan military guards check one of the burnt out buildings at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, during a visit by Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif to express sympathy for the death of American ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and his colleagues in the Sept.

House Oversight Committee ranking member Elijah Cummings called the IRS's targeting of conservative groups "one of the most alarming things I've ever seen," and believes that those involved likely broke the law.

Congressional Democrats on Wednesday applauded President Obama's move to force out the acting Internal Revenue Service commissioner, while Republicans on Capitol Hill signaled that they were far from done investigating the agency's targeting of conservative groups.

Gregory Hicks, the former deputy chief of mission in Libya, arrives for a House committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, May 8. State Department employees testified about the terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012.

A top House Democrat is pushing the U.S. Attorney's Office to give the public more information about its investigation into a series of national security leaks.

The Obama administration is once again reviving a years-long and recurring effort to reform the way the United States delivers food aid abroad, but unfortunately, it's a very uphill battle against some highly specially interested parties and the Congresspeople who represent them.

Maryland health advocates urged religious leaders on Tuesday to learn more about how federal health care reform will be implemented in the state so they can pass information on to uninsured congregants.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and ranking Democrat, Rep.

Among the more laudable ideas in President Barack Obama's budget for fiscal 2014 is a plan to modernize and reform the $1.5 billion U.S. food aid program.

"Saturday Night Live" had some fun with last week's marathon Benghazi hearing, marrying House Republicans' fervor for media attention with the basic tenet of sweeps week programming, like stunt casting: We can't quibble with the logic of exploiting newsmakers to make people notice what's happening on Capitol Hill - frustrated conservatives bemoaned ... (more)