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On July 22, 1998, President Bill Clinton signed into law a reorganization of the Internal Revenue Service designed to "give the American people an IRS that reflects America's values and respects America's taxpayers." As the Obama administration confronts a political crisis that has reinforced the worst imaginings of anti-Washington Republicans -- ... (more)

STATE OF PLAY: Interior Secretary Sally Jewell will spend her second day in Portland, Ore., on Friday, where she'll announce new cooperation on energy with state officials.

Ohio's U.S. senators and Cincinnati's House members have introduced legislation allowing the Delta Queen to go on overnight trips with passengers on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.

The cleanest electricity is no electricity at all - a fact that is not lost on new Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.

As delegates for the Boy Scouts of America convene this week in Texas to weigh a BSA board initiative for gay scouts, conservatives began airing two TV spots dealing with the Scouts, homosexuality and House Speaker John Boehner.

Apparently the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium didn't get the memo that Congress is already a zoo without its assistance.

A Medina college student is among nine interns who will be working this summer in Sen.

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

At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Hon. Douglas Shulman, former Internal Revenue Service commissioner and Steven Miller, acting IRS Commissioner, both denied any knowledge of the agency's targeted harassment of conservative groups seeking tax-exemption status.

The panel is led by Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and a fierce critic of what he sees as corporate wrongdoing.

Apple CEO Tim Cook defended the company's tax practices Tuesday at a Congressional hearing that alternated between fawning and testy.

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

Afternoon Update, sent weekday afternoons, keeps you up to date with breaking news and updates from later in the day.

Fox News continued to push for a special prosecutor following reports that the White House chief counsel knew of an IRS investigation but did not inform the president, a claim that ignores the legal and political problems raised by involving a president in an ongoing investigation.

PFEIFFER CALLS IRS ACTIVITY 'INEXCUSABLE': White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told ABC's GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS yesterday that the legality surrounding the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service is "irrelevant," but called the behavior "outrageous and inexcusable." "I can't speak to the law here.

A top U.S. Senate Democrat said Congress should expand its focus on the Internal Revenue Service and examine the use of non-profit groups for partisan purposes.

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Sunday morning on ABC's This Week , White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that the legality surrounding the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue service is "irrelevant," but called the behavior "inexcusable." "I can't speak to the law here.

Good Morning. Don't you love the little sunshine daisies? They are quite rare due to habitat destruction and the fact they need to be pollinated by a plant they aren't directly related to.

HEADLINERS Dan Pfeiffer, Assistant to the President and Senior Adviser Sen. Bob Menendez, D - New Jersey, Chair, Foreign Relations Committee; Finance Committee Sen.