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Arrogance, Intolerance Filters Down From Dear Leader
The Hartford Courant"Horrible customer service." That's what the newly fired IRS commissioner averred was the agency's only sin in singling out conservative political groups for discriminatory treatment. In such grim proceedings one should be grateful for unintended humor....Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Consumers, Internal Revenue Service, Tea Party Movement, News Media
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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: U.S. Congress, George W. Bush, Internal Revenue Service, Jay Carney, Denis R. McDonough
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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: U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Tea Party Movement, Jay Carney, Public Officials
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Amid rancor, a chance for U.S. action on trade bill
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major trade legislation appears increasingly likely to clear Congress this year despite an intensely partisan atmosphere made worse by scandals plaguing President Barack Obama's administration. Business groups are preparing to push...Tags: U.S. Congress, Economy, Business and Finance, Think Tanks, George W. Bush, Democratic Party
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Lawmakers grill Apple execs over tax strategy
WASHINGTON — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook was supposed to face a hostile Capitol Hill crowd but instead he wielded the company's popularity like a shield to deflect some of the most aggressive questioning over the company's...
Tags: Corporate Officers, Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Congress, Republic of Ireland, Carl Levin
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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: U.S. Congress, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Internal Revenue Service, Darrell E Issa, Tea Party Movement
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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. Congress, Internal Revenue Service, Darrell E Issa, Tea Party Movement, Jay Carney
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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: U.S. Congress, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Internal Revenue Service, Tea Party Movement, Sherrod Brown
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Former IRS commissioner 'dismayed' by inspector general's report
WASHINGTON -- The former top official of the Internal Revenue Service told senators Tuesday he was “dismayed and saddened” by an inspector general’s report detailing how, during his tenure as IRS commissioner, the agency...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Internal Revenue Service, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Senate, Orrin Hatch
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U.S. Democrats call for controls on tax-exempt groups at IRS hearing
Reuters* Senators put focus on "loophole" for political activity * "There are two scandals here," Senator Menendez says * Former IRS chief says enforcement "very, very difficult" By Gabriel Debenedetti and David Lindsey WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - As they...Tags: Elections, U.S. Congress, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Internal Revenue Service, Interior Policy
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WRAPUP 1-U.S. tax official at center of scandal won't testify -lawyer
ReutersBy Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a scandal about the targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny, plans to assert her constitutional right not to answer...Tags: U.S. Congress, Tea Party Movement, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senate
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WRAPUP 2-U.S. tax official at center of scandal won't testify -lawyer
Reuters(Adds detail on Lerner's prior statements, committee staff meeting with Paz) By Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - Lois Lerner, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a scandal about the targeting of conservative groups for...Tags: U.S. Congress, Tea Party Movement, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senate
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