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12 hrs ago | Tyler Morning Telegraph

[VIDEO] Tyler residents protest IRS' abuse of power scandal

Tammy Blair waved a "Don't Tread on Me" flag in front of the Tyler Internal Revenue Service headquarters on Loop 323 on a hot Tuesday afternoon.

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Related Topix: Tax, Tyler, TX, US News, Tea Party, Senator Ted Cruz, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives

Mon May 20, 2013

Salon.com

Gohmert: IRS would've "probably shot the Boston Tea Party participants"

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, argued that had the IRS been around during time of the Boston Tea Party, it probably would have shot them, along with at least half of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Tea Party, Joe Biden, US Senate, Senator Rand Paul

Sat May 18, 2013

Rotor.com

House Judiciary Panel Holds UAV Hearing

Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives focused on the Fourth Amendment implications of domestic UAV surveillance at a hearing May 17, but did not get a unified message from witnesses on how to tackle the issue.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Ted Poe, Republican, US House of Representatives, Texas Government, Texas, Criminal Defense Law, Law, John Conyers, Democrat

Fri May 17, 2013

Washington Times

Congress seeks to regulate drone use, looks for bipartisan ground

Eventually, courts will step in and have their say on the matter, determining how the unmanned aircraft fit into existing expectation of privacy standards and limits on government surveillance.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Ted Poe, Republican, US House of Representatives, Criminal Defense Law, Law, John Conyers, Democrat

Cybercast News Service

Gohmert: Holder - Was Not Being Truthful'; Holder: - You Cannot Know What I Know'

Rep. Louie Gohmert said Attorney General Eric Holder "was not being truthful" when he testified before the House Judiciary Committee about the investigation into the Islamic ties of the Boston marathon bombers.

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

Thu May 16, 2013

Mediaite.com

George Lopez Reacts To GOP Rep. Gohmert's 'Terrorists...

When HuffPost Live's Jacob Soboroff had George Lopez on his show this week, he asked the comedian to give his reaction to a particularly disturbing recent clip of Rep.

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

Politico

Gohmert says DOJ aims to scare

Rep. Louie Gohmert thinks there was more to the Justice Department seizing phone records from The Associated Press: The administration was also trying to intimidate Congress.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, William Jefferson, Democrat

The Austin Chronicle

News Ticker: May 16

Steve Hotze panics at the disco, Louie Gohmert flips his lid, and Randy Travis gets litigious.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Randy Travis, Explosion, US Senate, John Cornyn, Austin, TX

Wed May 15, 2013

ABC News

Holder on Hot Seat, Fires Back

Attorney General Eric Holder, in heated exchanges with the Republican delegation at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday afternoon, said it's "unacceptable" and "shameful" for Rep.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Darrell Issa, Bob Goodlatte

The Orlando Sentinel

Sean Hannity marks milestone, welcomes Sen. Marco Rubio

Sean Hannity, right, conducted a headline-making interview with George Zimmerman, left, and Mark O'Mara last year on 'Hannity.' His Wednesday show will be the 1,000th episode of "Hannity," which airs at 9 weeknights.

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Related Topix: Hannity, Entertainment, Television, US Politics, Hannity and Colmes, Senator Marco Rubio, US News, US Senate, Republican, Immigration Reform, US House of Representatives

Tue May 14, 2013

Bluffton Today

By nature, people cling to old philosophies

"The Scorpion and the Frog" parable recounts a river-crossing compact. The frog fears a lethal scorpion sting.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Opinion

CBS News

Video: Gohmert: Obama's immigration stance like going through reporter's phone records

During a press conference with House Republicans against the immigration reform proposal tendered by the bipartisan "gang of eight," Rep.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Steve King, US Senate, Mitch McConnell

CBS News

Video: King: I'd choose Obamacare over "amnesty" for illegal immigrants

Leading a press conference with House Republicans against the immigration reform proposal tendered by the bipartisan "gang of eight," Rep.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, Illegal Immigration, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Steve King, US Senate, Mitch McConnell

Mon May 13, 2013

The Huffington Post

Spencer Critchley: Muslim Socialist Terrible at Destroying America

We can of course take it on faith that Barack Obama is a Muslim socialist bent on destroying America.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Republican, US House of Representatives

Ohio.com

Cartoonish

"We don't have a ready force standing by in the Middle East, and so getting somebody there in a timely way would have been very difficult, if not impossible." Gates explained.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Trey Radel, Representative Mo Brooks, James Sensenbrenner

Dallas Morning News

Immigration: Reps. Louie Gohmert, Lamar Smith and Steve Stockman join ...

Most of the action on immigration has been on the Senate side lately. But getting a complex package through the GOP-controlled House will prove extremely tricky, and Tuesday, a number of key conservatives from Texas and elsewhere will lay down some markers.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Representative Steve Stockman, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Immigration Reform, Steve King

Sun May 12, 2013

NewsOne

Re: On Benghazi, It's Time Give It Up, Turn It Loose, GOP

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, left, and Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., right, sit in the audience of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's hearing on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Michele Bachmann, Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, Immigration Reform

Denver Post

IRS knew Tea Party was targeted in 2011, according to watchdog report

Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting Tea Party groups as early as 2011, according to a draft of an inspector general's report obtained by The Associated Press that seemingly contradicts public statements by the IRS commissioner.

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Related Topix: Tax, Pop/Rock, The Tea Party, US News, Tea Party, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Barack Obama

Fri May 10, 2013

New York Daily News

Benghazi talking points revised a dozen times: report

Whistleblower Greg Hicks, the number two U.S. diplomat in Libya, testified at a congressional hearing about the attack on Wednesday, along with acting deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism Mark Thompson and former regional security officer Eric Nordstrom .

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Libya, US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives

Free Republic

Republicans set groundwork for more Benghazi questions

'The public is finally hearing that it was very clear from the very first moment that it had nothing to do with a protest or a video, that that was a complete fabrication, created by this administration, not based on any factual submission from anybody in the administration, it was created after the fact,' U.S. Rep.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, US Senate, Senator Rand Paul