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Eric Garcetti's winning strategy took Wendy Greuel strongholds
Eric Garcetti defeated Wendy Greuel in the Los Angeles mayor's race despite Greuel’s overwhelming support in heavily African American neighborhoods. The city controller's strength among black voters in South L.A. was too little to make up for...
Tags: Wendy Greuel, Politics, Richard Riordan, Kevin James, Local Elections
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Key IRS official refuses to testify
WASHINGTON — In a contentious climax Wednesday to a series of congressional hearings, Lois Lerner, a key IRS manager, invoked her right to not testify about the agency's targeting of conservative groups, igniting howls from Republicans and...
Tags: Politics, Witnesses, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, Internal Revenue Service
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Top IRS official pleads the 5th Amendment at testy House hearing
WASHINGTON — A top Internal Revenue Service official invoked the 5th Amendment and declined to testify Wednesday before a House committee investigating the agency’s mishandling of applications by some conservative groups for tax-exempt status....
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, Internal Revenue Service, Darrell E Issa
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IRS tea party targeting "scandal" does not live up to the name
Now that more extensive, dispassionate reporting has been done about the "scandal” at the IRS, it is abundantly obvious that what is being called “targeting” of tea party organizations and other conservative groups was the result of...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Politics, Barack Obama, Internal Revenue Service, Taxation
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IRS' last two commissioners deny lying; official to take the 5th
WASHINGTON — As the Internal Revenue Service's last two directors struggled to provide answers Tuesday about the agency's improper scrutiny of conservative groups, a lawyer for another key IRS official said she would invoke the 5th Amendment...
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Internal Revenue Service, Crime, Law and Justice
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Immigration bill clears hurdle in Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation's immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, setting the stage for a debate next month that could lead to the biggest victory for...
Tags: Ted Cruz, Politics, Barack Obama, Migration, Mitch McConnell
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Hatch was the Republican to win over on immigration
WASHINGTON — When Sen. Orrin G. Hatch took his seat on the dais for the Senate Judiciary Committee's debates on the immigration reform bill, the 79-year-old was not just one of 18 senators. He was the most sought-after vote. A towering but genteel...
Tags: Interior Policy, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Politics, Jeff Flake, Career and Workplace
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Rep. Issa tested by the spotlight
WASHINGTON — During the 2010 campaign, Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat from Sherman Oaks, joked, "Every time I try to encourage the White House to do more to help us elect Democrats to the House of Representatives, I send them a picture of Darrell...
Tags: Politics, Henry A Waxman, Tom Davis, Darrell E Issa, Values
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JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon survives vote to strip him of chairmanship
A JPMorgan Chase & Co. shareholder proposal to split the bank's chairman and chief executive roles -- now both held by Jamie Dimon -- failed to win a majority's support Tuesday. The proposal to split Dimon's jobs at the nation's largest bank won only...
Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Shareholders, Jamie Dimon, California Public Employees' Retirement System
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Sen. Orrin Hatch emerges as key GOP vote on immigration
WASHINGTON – When Sen. Orrin Hatch takes his seat on the dais in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, the 79-year-old slides into his status as the most sought-after vote for immigration reform. A towering but genteel figure, Hatch is seen...
Tags: Business, Politics, Jeff Flake, Dick Durbin, Media Industry
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Disgraced ex-congressman Anthony Weiner running for New York mayor
NEW YORK — Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose career imploded in a rash of raunchy tweets two years ago, announced in a YouTube video late Tuesday that he is running for mayor of New York. “I made some big mistakes and I know I let a lot...
Tags: Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Politics, Huma Abedin, Bill Thompson, Satellite and Cable Service
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Immigration reform bill heads to full Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, but not before tilting the bill to the political right with amendments designed to...
Tags: Ted Cruz, Politics, Barack Obama, Migration, Mitch McConnell
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