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IRS manager says tea party groups not politically targeted
WASHINGTON — An Internal Revenue Service manager who described himself as a "conservative Republican" told congressional investigators that no one in the agency's Cincinnati office was trying to target tea party organizations for political reasons,...
Tags: Elijah E. Cummings, White House, Internal Revenue Service, Politics, U.S. Congress
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Stop the deficit extremists
The U.S. economy is improving, yet Congress seems still to be in the grip of the delirium that shrinking the deficit in the near term is still a matter of paramount urgency. That's what's prevented lawmakers from dealing with their real task, which is...
Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Career and Workplace, Republican Party, Budgets and Budgeting, Gross Domestic Product
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Which comes first: California's egg rule, or everyone else's?
WASHINGTON — Congress this year will deal with a host of profound issues: A confrontation over raising the nation's debt limit. Budget battles that will determine whether more cuts are made in government services. And the most ambitious attempt to...
Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Justice System, U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Humane Society of the United States, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Republican donors, RNC push in different directions
PARK CITY, Utah — After women, young voters and Latinos fled from the Republican Party in droves in 2012, some GOP leaders thought they had a chance to turn things around. They embarked on a "listening tour" and put out a report acknowledging that...
Tags: Barack Obama, Immigration, Minority Groups, CKE Restaurants Incorporated, Todd Akin
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McManus: 'Tea party' tempest brewing
The "tea party" is back and is brewing trouble for the Republican establishment. After the GOP debacle in the 2012 election, when Republicans not only failed to win the presidency but blew a chance to take over the Senate, party leaders paused to...
Tags: Barack Obama, Karl Rove, Ted Cruz, Republican Party, White House
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Tim Donnelly's a very social Assembly member
SACRAMENTO — Live from the Capitol, it's Tim Donnelly — on Facebook, on Twitter and on the Assembly floor, where he frequently denounces bills he dislikes. A two-term Republican lawmaker from San Bernardino County, he likes to be heard. Just...
Tags: Social Media, Charles M. Calderon, Twitter, Inc., Politics, Tim Donnelly
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Need a paid vacation? Then America's not the place for you
Just back from a nice long Memorial Day weekend, which, of course, put me in the mood for, you guessed it -- a vacation. Then I read this story: “U.S. is only 'advanced economy' that does not require paid vacation.” Figures. So I...
Tags: Barack Obama, Holiday Vacations, Memorial Day, Trips and Vacations, Chris Christie
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Michele Bachmann won't run for reelection
WASHINGTON — Michele Bachmann, the fiery conservative congresswoman from Minnesota, announced Wednesday she would not seek reelection, a move made in the face of a political challenge at home and several investigations into her failed run for the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Federal Election Commission, Republican Party, Politics, U.S. Congress
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Questioning the IRS
Glenn Hubbard and Tim Kane were wrong to say in their Op-Ed article Wednesday that the IRS' targeting of unorthodox political groups chills free speech, wrote reader Harrison Stephenson in a letter to the editor. He said: -------------------- FOR THE...
Tags: Interior Policy, Internal Revenue Service, Politics, Parties and Movements, Pension and Welfare
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Rubio wants stronger border security in immigration reform bill
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a key author of the bipartisan Senate immigration overhaul, is working on a proposal that would give Congress, not the Obama administration, the authority to devise a plan to bolster border security. The...
Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Dianne Feinstein, Memorial Day, Career and Workplace
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Opponents of immigration reform face changed landscape
WASHINGTON — It's not as if Republican Rep. Steve King missed the message from party leaders about how supporting an immigration overhaul could help boost the GOP's standing among Latino voters. He just isn't buying it. "I'm incredulous with the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Republican Party, Immigration, Justice System, White House
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Government dysfunction, part 1: The unaddressed 'sequester' mess
First, members of Congress set a trap that would bite hard if they failed to break the political gridlock and come up with a grand bargain on the budget. Then, having failed, they let the trap spring shut. And now, they continue to blunder and bluster...
Tags: National Institutes of Health, Smithsonian Institution, U.S. Congress, Budget Control Act of 2011
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