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McManus: Obama's IRS choice
Message to the president: Resistance is futile. There are plenty of juicy targets for investigators in the IRS scrutiny of conservative organizations that applied for tax-exempt status, but the most dangerous for President Obama is this: Did bureaucrats...
Tags: Max Baucus, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Prosecution, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Congress expands inquiry into IRS handling of conservative groups
WASHINGTON — Congressional investigators are broadening their inquiry into the Internal Revenue Service's mishandling of groups seeking tax-exempt status, indicating that they plan to examine how the agency dealt with a wide swath of nonprofit...
Tags: Max Baucus, U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Pension and Welfare, Political Fundraising
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White House officials knew of IRS audit findings weeks in advance
WASHINGTON — Top officials in the White House learned in April that an investigation of the IRS would probably end up showing that the agency targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny, the White House spokesman conceded Monday, contrary to...
Tags: Max Baucus, U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, The Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama
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Obama responds to criticism with 'fix it' strategy
WASHINGTON — At a news conference in a rainy Rose Garden on Thursday, President Obama and the Turkish prime minister had weighty matters to discuss — the bloody civil war in Syria, a disastrous Syrian refugee crisis and Turkey's strained...
Tags: Turkey, U.S. Congress, Sexual Assault, John Boehner, Benghazi
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Weekend TV Talk: Charles Schumer; Denis McDonough; Maggie Smith
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Feb. 17 - 23, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SATURDAY Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC McLaughlin Group (N) 6:30 p.m. KCET SUNDAY The Chris Matthews Show...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Australia, John Barrasso, Chuck Schumer, John Howard
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IRS officials aren't cooperating in probes at top or bottom
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Internal Revenue Service officials are not fully cooperating with efforts to learn who is responsible for targeting conservative groups, lawmakers learned Wednesday during the third and most tense, dramatic hearing on the scandal. First, the...Tags: Chuck Grassley, U.S. Department of the Treasury, This Week (tv program), U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Parties and Movements
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White House says it knew of IRS investigation a month ago
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The White House acknowledged Monday that senior aides to President Barack Obama knew a month ago that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted conservative groups, expanding on previous administration statements about who in the White House...Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Congress, This Week (tv program), John Boehner, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
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Obama urged to make economy a bigger, bolder topic
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five months into President Barack Obama's second term, allies and former top aides worry that his overarching goal of economic opportunity has been diminished, partly drowned out by controversies seized upon by Republicans in an...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Budgets and Budgeting, John Boehner, Benghazi, Congressional Budget Office
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St. Joseph News-Press, Mo., Ken Newton column
St. Joseph News-Press, Mo.Congressional history holds a forgiving spirit for the "Dry Spy" and "The Man in the Green Hat." Even the U.S. Senate's website features the story of George Cassiday, whose later career with the CIA stands as a footnote to his early infamy as a...Tags: Paul Ryan, Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Elections
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No assault weapons ban: Not in Democrat's Senate bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — An assault weapons ban won't be in the gun-control legislation that Democrats bring to the Senate floor next month, a decision that means the ban's chances of survival now are all but hopeless. The ban is the most controversial...
Tags: Lobbying, Firearms, Newspaper and Magazine, Harry Reid, Parties and Movements
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American reaction to budget cut hype? Yawn.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is pulling out all the stops to warn just what could happen if automatic budget cuts kick in. Americans are reacting with a collective yawn. They know the drill: Obama raises the alarm, Democrats and...
Tags: Peter Brown, Career and Workplace, Barack Obama, Bobby Jindal, Times Square
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In budget fight, sky is falling again
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and his officials are doing their best to drum up public concern over the shock wave of spending cuts that could strike the government in just days. So it's a good time to be alert for sky-is-falling hype....
Tags: Lobbying, Mental Health, Medicare, Career and Workplace, FBI
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