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GOP questions IRS scrutiny of anti-abortion groups
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the IRS asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs were...
Tags: Planned Parenthood, Parties and Movements, Employees, Family Planning, Chuck Grassley
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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: Tea Party Movement, Taxation, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013)
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Government dysfunction decried by Obama partly due to US founders and political polarization
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The works do seem to be "gummed up" on Capitol Hill. And President Barack Obama isn't the only one to say so. Yet despite years of hand-wringing in both parties, little progress has been made toward changing congressional rules on...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Tea Party Movement, Crime, Law and Justice, Lobbying, Elections
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FACTBOX-Four key questions in the unfolding IRS scandal
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Congressional and Justice Department investigators are examining the Internal Revenue Service over its inappropriate scrutiny of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. President Barack Obama, seeking...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Tea Party Movement, Taxation, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Denis R. McDonough
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IRS' Lerner says did nothing wrong, refuses to answer questions
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - The Internal Revenue Service official who this month revealed the U.S. tax agency's targeting of conservative groups asserted her constitutional right not to answer questions before a U.S. congressional committee on...Tags: Darrell E Issa, Taxation, U.S. House of Representatives, Politics, U.S. Congress
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WRAPUP 1-IRS official refuses to answer questions at scandal hearing
ReutersBy Kim Dixon and Patrick Temple-West WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a tax scandal about extra scrutiny of conservative groups told a congressional hearing on Wednesday she had done nothing wrong...Tags: Taxation, Tea Party Movement, Career and Workplace, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Congress
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IRS officials still don't have full explanation of targeting
WASHINGTON – The outgoing head of the IRS said the agency still doesn’t know which staff members were responsible for using politically loaded language to screen out nonprofit groups, as senators pressed them to explain how certain...
Tags: John Cornyn, Sherrod Brown, Patrick J. Toomey, Tea Party Movement, Taxation
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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: U.S. Senate, Elections, U.S. Congress, U.S. Army, Parties and Movements
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Lew: IRS acted alone in planted question about targeting Tea Party
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Tuesday that Internal Revenue Service employees acted alone in making public the agency's handling of tax exemptions for Tea Party groups and that he would have advised against it....Tags: Taxation, Tea Party Movement, Politics
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IRS' Miller says planting question on tax targeting was bad idea
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - The outgoing head of the Internal Revenue Service took responsibility on Tuesday for his agency's decision to expose its political targeting scandal by planting a question in the audience at a tax conference. Acting IRS...Tags: Taxation, Politics, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Former IRS chief tells lawmakers "dismayed" by targeting
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former head of the Internal Revenue Service told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday he was "dismayed" to learn that the tax agency had subjected conservative groups to extra scrutiny under his watch. At a congressional hearing, former...Tags: Taxation, Politics, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Doyle McManus: Second-term scandal plague catches up to Obama
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...Tags: Steve King, Tea Party Movement, Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Doyle McManus
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