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Check out the highlight reel from a House hearing Wednesday: bizarre plot twists, witness missteps and new revelations from IRS officials.

House Speaker John Boehner can't imagine President Obama didn't know about the IRS investigation until it became public: House Speaker John Boehner said in an interview aired late Wednesday that it's "inconceivable" someone didn't inform President Obama about the IRS's targeting of conservative groups.

The first round of congressional hearings on the Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of small-government groups didn't reveal the people who started that practice or provide clearer answers on why they did it.

During questioning on Capitol Hill Wednesday, it was discovered that former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House 118 times in 2010 and 2011, during which time tea party groups were being targeted .

As anticipated, Lois Lerner appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday to answer questions regarding her knowledge of improprieties by the agency she directs.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said current monetary policy provides "significant benefits" to the economy, but then hinted of possible changes.

In his opening statements at today's House Oversight Committee hearing, Representative Jim Jordan was highly skeptical that the IRS's targeting was the work of "two rogue agents" as the White House claims.

J. D. Montgomery holds a sign on the street outside of the James C. Corman Federal Building encouraging motorist to express their anger at the IRS.

Tesla Motors Inc. is giving President Barack Obama's green-energy strategy its biggest win after almost two years of failures pounced upon by Republicans.

Lois Lerner, the mid-level Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a controversy over the agency's scrutiny of small-government groups, will invoke her constitutional right not to testify before Congress, according to a letter from her lawyer.

Radio personalities and local politicians braved a noonday downpour to vent their frustrations through a bullhorn in front of the federal building yesterday as a part of a nationwide protest against the Internal Revenue Service targeting political groups.

The IRS scandal continues to engulf the news cycle as critics from the both sides of the aisle express outrage and demand anger.

The Obama Administration is claiming that two "rogue employees" at the Cincinnati IRS facility were the apparent source of all IRS harassment of the TEA Party and other Conservative groups over the past three years.

The Senate committee that caused the delay is scheduled to pick up where it left off on Thursday as it votes on whether to move forward with confirmation proceedings for Thomas Perez, who currently heads the Justice Department's civil rights division.

The Ohio Liberty Coalition and 16 other tea party groups could file a civil suit against the Internal Revenue Service as soon as next week, according to an attorney representing 27 tea party organizations from around the nation.

Washington's top tax official was fired on Wednesday as President Barack Obama sought to stem a rising tide of criticism over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny.

The FBI is investigating potential civil rights violations at the Internal Revenue Service after the agency acknowledged the agency had singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.

They say there are only two sure things in life: death and taxes. Try as we might, it's virtually impossible to escape the clutches of the Grim Reaper or the Tax Man.

Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation of whether IRS employees broke the law when they targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, the latest setback for an agency that is the subject of withering bipartisan criticism and multiple congressional inquiries.

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