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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.

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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.

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

Could Ed and Shannon FitzGerald be moving to Columbus next year? The Cuyahoga County executive is perhaps the strongest Democratic candidate for governor in years, but Republican incumbent John Kasich will be a tough opponent.

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

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Lawmakers are ready to question the ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service as Congress holds its first hearing on the tougher scrutiny the IRS gave tea party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.

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.

Former Romney-campaign strategist Stuart Stevens predicts that Hillary Clinton will lose the Democratic presidential primary in 2016, arguing that the former secretary of state has significant political vulnerabilities.

A federal tax on medical devices went into effect at the beginning of the year. As part of President Obama's healthcare bill signed into law four years ago, a 2.3 percent tax will be assessed on companies that produce anything from wheelchairs to pacemakers.