Authors: Carmen Cox
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) -- Treasury Secretary Jack Lew called the unfair scrutiny the Internal Revenue Service gave some tea party groups “outrageous methods,” adding that while the “conduct was not politically motivated it was unacceptable and inexcusable.”
“Administering...
Authors: jc
Comstock Images/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Lois Lerner, the top IRS official who is at the center of the controversy for the targeting of tea party and other conservative groups, will refuse to answer questions at a congressional hearing Wednesday and invoke her Fifth Amendment rights, ABC News has learned.
She is set to appear before the...
Authors: jc
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Douglas Shulman, the former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, said Tuesday he was “dismayed and saddened” that his agency had improperly targeted conservative groups, but declined to offer a direct apology and dismissed suggestions that he misled Congress.
The testimony from...
Authors: jc
Hemera/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The first group that claims they were unfairly scrutinized by the Internal Revenue Service filed suit Tuesday against the agency in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking damages and the granting of their long-delayed tax-exempt status application.
True the Vote, a Houston-based voter watchdog group,...
Authors: jc
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) -- A group of seven young people shared their personal struggles with the immigration system during a meeting with President Obama and Vice President Biden on Tuesday.
While senators continued to haggle over the details of a bipartisan immigration bill on Capitol Hill, Obama and Biden...
Authors: jc
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Lawmakers have pledged to send aid to tornado-devastated Oklahoma quickly, but the state's Republican lawmakers -- six of whom voted against disaster aid after Superstorm Sandy -- may be forced to reckon with their past votes against emergency disaster funding.
Oklahoma's two Republican senators,...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Offering prayers and assurances to the victims of the devastating tornado in Oklahoma, President Obama on Tuesday said he is instructing the federal government to provide the people of Moore with everything they need “right away” as they recover from “one of the...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A new version of a bill that targets fake war heroes easily passed the House of Representatives late Monday with a 390-3 vote.
The bill, H.R. 258 also known as the Stolen Valor Act of 2013, is the latest attempt by Congress to push through legislation that would punish...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama late Monday declared a state of emergency in Oklahoma after a massive tornado ripped through the city of Moore, leaving at least 51 people dead and more than 100 injured.
In a statement, the White House said the president "ordered Federal aid to...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
David De Lossy/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The "Fast and Furious" gun-walking controversy is back in the headlines.
This time, a Justice Department Inspector General's report says that a former top federal prosecutor decided to get back at whistleblower John Dodson by leaking a story that Dodson also supported allowing guns to...
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