By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Three days of hearings have shown that IRS scrutiny of conservative organizations extended beyond a few rogue employees in Cincinnati, that the agency staged its announcement of the bad news to try to limit the damage, and that the White House knew more, and knew it earlier, than it first admitted. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Under fire for the Justice Department’s broad investigations of the news media, President Obama said Thursday he has called on Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to review the probes and convene a meeting with media representatives. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times
The woman at the center of the IRS scandal was put on paid administrative leave Thursday, marking the second agency official to be removed over the inappropriate scrutiny of conservative groups. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Sens. Carl Levin and John McCain, who together run the Senate’s permanent investigative subcommittee, sent a letter to the IRS on Thursday calling for Lois Lerner, the woman at the center of the agency’s conservative-targeting scandal, to be suspended for dereliction of duty. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
House Speaker John A. Boehner on Thursday flatly ruled out chances of the House passing the Senate’s immigration bill, saying his chamber will debate its own bill instead. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
Donald H. Rumsfeld has created considerable buzz with his book “Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life,” which includes 400 advisories for those who would be leaders. Among those rules: American is not what’s wrong with the world. If you expect people to be on the landing, include them in the takeoff. If you’re coasting, you’re going downhill. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Senators voted 97-0 Thursday to confirm Srikanth Srinivasan to a judgeship on the vitally important U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia after Republicans relented and allowed the vote to go forward this week. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By David Eldridge - The Washington Times
President Obama’s speech on resetting the war on terror ground to a halt halfway through when an anti-Gitmo heckler repeatedly interrupted. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
The Senate on Thursday finally confirmed President Obama’s first judicial nominee to the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Commerce secretary-nominee Penny Pritzker told lawmakers Thursday that she regrets the losses suffered by customers of a failed bank she once led, but a lawyer for the depositors said the bank’s owners never fully reimbursed them or the government. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday he won’t start to pick any big fights with Republicans because he’s afraid of upsetting the momentum to pass an immigration bill — and that includes delaying President Obama’s Labor Department nominee. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times
President Obama said Thursday that al Qaeda is nearly defeated and the war on terrorism has changed since he took office, and that demands a broad rethink that includes scaling down drone attacks, transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay and revisiting the 2001 congressional resolution that set the country on perpetual war footing. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times
While some White House officials, including press secretary Jay Carney, have tried to minimize the impact of the IRS political-targeting scandal, saying the abuses ended in May 2012 and the practice is a thing of the past, victims say they are still feeling the impact. Published May 22, 2013
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
Crowds jammed onto the sidewalks in front of more than a dozen Internal Revenue Service offices nationwide Tuesday to protest the agency's targeting of conservative organizations for extra scrutiny. Published May 22, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Lois Lerner, an IRS official who reportedly tried to stop the targeting of conservative groups in July 2011 before it surfaced again, told House investigators she did nothing wrong but will not answer their questions on Wednesday. Published May 22, 2013
By Romina Boccia - Special to The Washington Times
Your family is in deep financial trouble. You're about to hit your credit limit again after raising it multiple times over just the past two years. Published May 22, 2013
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Former IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman's testimony that he deliberately kept himself in the dark about the tax service's brewing scandal runs counter to the responsibilities of agency heads regardless of whether they are political appointees, some government analysts said. Published May 22, 2013
By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
Fox News anchor Bret Baier says that in addition to seizing the phone records of Fox reporter James Rosen, the Department of Justice seized the records of his parents as well in another twist to the still-unraveling saga. Published May 22, 2013
By Luke Rosiak - The Washington Times
Representatives of "durable medical equipment" companies accused of badgering senior citizens into obtaining scooters and other equipment "at little or no cost to you" — with the rest picked up by taxpayers — hid from scrutiny by a Senate oversight committee Wednesday. Published May 22, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Sen. Mitch McConnell's "maybe" challengers for his Senate seat has moved from Ashley Judd — who decided against a run weeks ago — to Heather French Henry, Miss America for 2000. Published May 22, 2013
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
During his 2012 campaign for re-election, President Obama and his team accused Mitt Romney of "betting against America" for investing in offshore accounts. If Mr. Romney "bet against America," so did the family of Penny Pritzker, Mr. Obama's nominee for commerce secretary. Published May 22, 2013
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he will push to confirm more judges to the federal appeals court in Washington after that court ruled this year that President Obama's broad use of recess appointment powers was unconstitutional. Published May 22, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Neal S. Wolin said Wednesday his department had no hand in the IRS' targeting of conservative groups from 2010 to 2012. Published May 22, 2013
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
The Senate immigration bill's authors acknowledged Tuesday that their legislation does not require illegal immigrants to pay all back taxes, saying it would be too difficult to make them ante up everything they might owe. Published May 21, 2013
By Frederic J. Frommer - Associated Press
A federal appeals court Tuesday backed the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos. Published May 21, 2013
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
True the Vote — one of the conservative groups the IRS subjected to special scrutiny in its application for tax-exempt status — sued the federal government on Tuesday, demanding the tax agency approve its application that has now been pending for three years. Published May 21, 2013
By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times
President Obama faces mounting bipartisan pressure for the U.S. to become more deeply involved in Syria's civil war, with a key Senate panel pushing through legislation Tuesday that would clear the way for the administration to supply weapons to rebels fighters in the Mideast nation. Published May 21, 2013
