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2 hrs ago | The Wichita Eagle

Scandal draws questions about IRS role in enforcing Obamacare

The Internal Revenue Service is an important cog in the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly shorthanded as Obamacare.

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Related Topix: Tax, Healthcare Law, Law, Health Insurance, Health, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican

6 hrs ago | ChannelOne

Tea party storm largely inside IRS - so far

Three days of congressional hearings about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups have lawmakers looking for ways to widen an investigation that has so far been largely contained within the tax collection agency.

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Related Topix: Tax, Criminal Defense Law, Law, US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Darrell Issa, US Senate, Orrin Hatch

9 hrs ago | Free Republic

Obama's Energy Secretary Says Climate Change Not Debatable

Ernest Moniz, Barack Obama's new Secretary of Energy, is making it clear there is no room for dissent regarding climate change.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Senate, Republican

11 hrs ago | Roll Call

'Speech Police' Expanding Under Obama, McConnell Writes

Sen. Mitch McConnell is continuing his push to tie Democratic efforts to increase campaign finance disclosures to the IRS scandal.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Washington Post, Publishing

13 hrs ago | Politico

Immigration: What tech should watch

Tech fought hard for changes in the Senate immigration bill and largely won them.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Outsourcing, US Politics, Orrin Hatch, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Al Franken, Democrat, Sherrod Brown, US House of Representatives

17 hrs ago | The Irrawaddy Newsmagazine

Shawn Crispin.

Burmese President Thein Sein made a historic visit to the White House on May 19, the latest in a series of high-level symbolic exchanges between the two nations.

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Related Topix: Burma, Southeast Asia, World News, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Journalism, Prison, US Senate, Republican

18 hrs ago | Murfreesboro Post

Alexander: Prohibition on Corps' dam restrictions passes

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander announced Senate passage last week of a proposal he included in the Water Resources Development Act that would prohibit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from implementing its proposed fishing restrictions below dams on the Cumberland River, and delegate enforcement to state wildlife agencies.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Lamar Alexander, US Senate, Republican, Bob Corker, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Ed Whitfield, US House of Representatives, Senator Rand Paul

Wed May 22, 2013

Bloomberg

Senate Leaders Millionaires in Disclosure Data

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell both reported their net worth in the millions of dollars as the U.S. Senate today released personal financial disclosure reports for its members.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Harry Reid, US Senate, Democrat, Republican, Senator Rand Paul, Senator Marco Rubio, Senator John Barrasso, W.

RedState

Mitch McConnell Supports Schumer's Amnesty/Immigration Deform Bill

It looks like Mitch McConnell's pass from Chuck Schumer to publicly remain silent on the amnesty bill has expired.

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Related Topix: US Senate, Republican, US Politics, US News, Immigration Reform, Tax

Roll Call

Procedural Madness Wednesday: A Nominee and the Nuclear Option | #WGDB

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., fought Wednesday morning over when a vote should be held for a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, which isn't uncommon C-SPAN2 fare.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Harry Reid, US Senate, Republican, Democrat, District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, Barack Obama

The Washington Post

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Fully 55 percent say the Obama administration is trying to hide the facts, while just 33 percent say it has honestly disclosed what it knows of the incident.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Senator Kelly Ayotte, Health

Washington Times

Former Miss America may take on Mitch McConnell for Senate

The "maybe" challengers for the Senate seat held by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , Kentucky Republican, have moved from Ashley Judd - who decided against a run weeks ago - to Heather French Henry , Miss America for 2000.

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Related Topix: US Senate, Republican, US Politics, US News

NewsTarget.com

Associated Press chief starts to sound like Alex Jones: 'Government is unconstitutional...'

The mainstream media has a lousy reputation for upholding the Bill of Rights, especially when it comes to the Second Amendment's right to keep and bear arms, the Fourth Amendment's right to privacy and the Tenth Amendment's limitation on federal power.

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Related Topix: US News, Journalism, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, John Cornyn

Journal Gazette

Landmark immigration bill moving to Senate

After five days of debate over dozen of amendments, the Judiciary Committee voted 13-5 in support of the bill, with three Republicans joining the committee's 10 Democrats.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, Illegal Immigration, US Politics, Patrick Leahy, US Senate, Democrat, Republican, Richard Durbin

Tue May 21, 2013

Roll Call

Inhofe, Coburn Caution Against Extra Spending in Tornado Aid

Oklahoma's two Republican senators are pledging any assistance needed for areas devastated by the tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., on Monday, but they're maintaining their conservative views on federal spending.

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Related Topix: Tom Coburn, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, John Boehner, US House of Representatives, Moore, OK, FEMA, Harry Reid, Democrat

WMDT

Key senator to let Myanmar sanctions bill lapse

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, easing up on his long-held tough stance on Myanmar, said Tuesday he planned to allow key sanctions legislation against the Southeast Asian nation to lapse because of the country's progress toward democracy.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Thein Sein, Barack Obama, World News, Aung San Suu Kyi

WKRN

House passes 2-year moratorium on dam barriers

The U.S. House has passed legislation that would put a 2-year moratorium on an Army Corps of Engineers plan to erect barriers to prevent people from fishing below dams on the Cumberland River.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ed Whitfield, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Lamar Alexander, US Senate, Bob Corker, Senator Rand Paul, Tennessee Government, Tennessee

Examiner.com

They just can't help themselves

Why? Because none of the scandals rocking Washington have touched the president, the modern Teflon man.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Bobby Jindal, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Senate, Meet the Press, Entertainment, Television, US Governors, James Inhofe

Mon May 20, 2013

Politico

McConnell: ACA top 2014 issue - Medicaid expansion advocates consider ...

McCONNELL: OBAMACARE TOP 2014 ISSUE - For all of the past week's headlines on Benghazi, the IRS and Justice Department, there's still one issue that will top them all in the 2014 midterm elections, according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's crystal ball.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Trent Franks, US House of Representatives, US Governors, Jan Brewer

Asbury Park Press

Associated Press CEO calls records seizure 'unconstitutional'

The Associated Press' president and chief executive says the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records has already had a chilling effect on newsgathering, a week after the subpoenas were revealed publicly.

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Related Topix: Journalism, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Senate, Republican, John Cornyn