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  • VIDEO: Lois Lerner: ‘I have not done anything wrong’

    VIDEO: Lois Lerner: ‘I have not done anything wrong’

    At a hearing of the House Oversight Committee Wednesday, IRS Director of exempt organizations Lois Lerner invoked her fifth amendment rights, saying she was innocent of any wrong doing.

  • VIDEO: Rep. Elijah Cummings lays into former IRS head Doug Shulman

    VIDEO: Rep. Elijah Cummings lays into former IRS head Doug Shulman

    At a hearing of the House Oversight Committee Wednesday Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., grew heated in questioning former IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman about his knowledge of the group’s recent scandal.

  • Pressure builds on officials to take heat for IRS scandal

    Pressure builds on officials to take heat for IRS scandal

    WASHINGTON – Pressure was building on Monday for the Obama administration to fire more people linked to the Internal Revenue Service’s extra scrutiny of conservative groups, possibly including another top IRS official. More than a week after a mid-level IRS […]

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  • VIDEO: Ousted acting IRS commissioner blames ‘foolish mistakes’, not partisanship for scandal

    VIDEO: Ousted acting IRS commissioner blames ‘foolish mistakes’, not partisanship for scandal

    Former acting IRS commissioner Steve Miller testified before the House Ways and Means committee Friday on whether the tax agency misled Congress on its screening practices.

  • VIDEO: Treasury inspector general: IRS used ‘inappropriate criteria’ to probe conservative groups

    VIDEO: Treasury inspector general: IRS used ‘inappropriate criteria’ to probe conservative groups

    During a House hearing on Friday, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George testified on his office’s investigation into the IRS probe into conservative groups.

  • Republicans Altered Benghazi Emails, CBS News Reports

    Republicans Altered Benghazi Emails, CBS News Reports

    [stream flv=x:/frontstreetmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Republicans-Altered-Benghazi-Emails-CBS-News-Report-Claims.480p.flv img=x:/frontstreetmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Republicans-Altered-Benghazi-Emails-CBS-News-Report-Claims.480p.jpg embed=true share=true width=640 height=360 dock=true controlbar=over bandwidth=high autostart=true responsive=16:9 /] One day after The White House released 100 pages of Benghazi emails, a report has surfaced alleging that Republicans released a set with altered text. CBS News […]

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  • House Republican Rebranding Effort Suffers Major Setback

    House Republican Rebranding Effort Suffers Major Setback

    TPMDC SAHIL KAPUR APRIL 24, 2013, 4:20 PM Amid opposition from conservative members and Democrats, House Republican leaders abruptly cancelled a vote on legislation designed to simultaneously undermine a progressive piece of Obamacare and boost the party’s credibility with voters […]

  • U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on measures to reduce gun violence, at the University of Hartford in Connecticut April 8, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Jason Reed

    Obama budget targets millionaires, replaces sequester cuts

    By Mark Felsenthal and Jeff Mason (Reuters) | Wed Apr 10, 2013 6:01am EDT WASHINGTON – The White House on Wednesday proposed a budget that sharply trims the U.S. deficit over three years by forcing millionaires to pay more in […]

  • U.S. President Barack Obama (C) smiles as he prepares to board Marine One to a Democratic fund raiser in San Francisco April 4, 2013. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

    Obama budget to offer program cuts, seek deficit deal

    By Mark Felsenthal (Reuters) | Fri Apr 5, 2013 3:01am EDT WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will offer cuts to Social Security and other entitlement programs in a budget proposal aimed at swaying Republicans to compromise on a deficit-reduction deal, […]

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  • Obama To Return 5 Percent Of His Salary

    Obama To Return 5 Percent Of His Salary

    By JOSH LEDERMAN 04/03/13 10:57 PM ET EDT – WASHINGTON — Sharing a bit of budget pain, President Barack Obama will return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury in a show of solidarity with federal workers smarting from […]

  • VIDEO: New York News – National Rifle Association, Tilda Swinton, Julius Genachowski

    VIDEO: New York News – National Rifle Association, Tilda Swinton, Julius Genachowski

    N.R.A. Chief Says He Will Counter Bloomberg’s Gun Control Campaign. Actress Tilda Swinton sleeps in glass box for NY museum performance. Julius Genachowski, FCC Chairman, To Step Down

  • FAA To Close 149 Air Traffic Towers Because Of Budget Cuts

    FAA To Close 149 Air Traffic Towers Because Of Budget Cuts

    CHICAGO — Under orders to trim hundreds of millions of dollars from its budget, the Federal Aviation Administration released a final list Friday of 149 air traffic control towers that it will close at small airports around the country starting […]

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  • Obama Congress Joke: Hot Mic

    Obama Congress Joke: Hot Mic

    Obama Congress Joke: Hot Mic Catches President Saying ‘Good To Get Away’ In Israel (VIDEO)  

  • White House On Ryan’s Budget: Math Doesn’t Add Up

    White House On Ryan’s Budget: Math Doesn’t Add Up

    BY JOSH LEDERMAN, The White House says the new House Republican budget outlines the wrong course for the nation. White House spokesman Jay Carney says the math in Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan doesn’t add up. Carney says it will […]

  • Paul Ryan Budget Ax:

    Paul Ryan Budget Ax:

    WASHINGTON — House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) offered up his latest budget proposal, a plan that promises to balance the budget in 10 years by repealing President Barack Obama’s “Affordable Health Care Act” and slashing Medicare, Medicaid and […]

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  • Rand Paul Filibuster Delays Senate Vote On John Brennan

    Rand Paul Filibuster Delays Senate Vote On John Brennan

    WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) – Kentucky Republican Rand Paul took the floor of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday and spoke for nearly 13 hours in an attempt to block the confirmation of John Brennan as President Barack Obama’s next CIA […]

 
 

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