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GOP hopes IRS scandal will snag health care law
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Despite controversies, Obama agenda marches on
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Myanmar leader, Obama to meet while reforms stall
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IRS probe ignored most influential groups
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Dems' Senate campaigns marked by internal battles
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Tea party hero Cuccinelli is Va. GOP gov nominee
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Despite sequester, high-level federal executives slated to get bonuses
An elite group of federal employees is set to receive cash bonuses despite this year’s automatic budget cuts, according to a report that a Senate subcommittee issued Friday.
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A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back
The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute.
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Obama takes Cabinet secretaries out to play golf
President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf - in the rain.
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Money tangle: The IRS and its tea party tempest
The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It's the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck.
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SPIN METER: GOP raps Dems for IRS union cash
Seeking maximum political gain from the string of controversies swirling around the White House, Republicans are on the attack against Democratic lawmakers who accepted donations from the union that represents Internal Revenue Service employees.
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Congress, fired IRS chief clash
The embattled and departing head of the IRS on Friday defended as proper the actions taken by IRS employees who selected for close scrutiny tea party groups and other conservative organizations.
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Obama talks jobs, says politics misplace focus
President Barack Obama is calling attention to his economic proposals and efforts to expand the middle class.
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Treasury says U.S. can pay its bills for months, delaying debt ceiling fight
Any confrontation over the nation’s debt ceiling is now unlikely until after Labor Day.
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Transportation nominee Anthony Foxx prepares for DC debut at confirmation hearing
Anthony Foxx appears to have a clear path to confirmation as U.S. transportation secretary next week, as virtually all of his 16 predecessors have.
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Illinois Senate approves medical marijuana bill
Illinois lawmakers agreed to legalize the use of medical marijuana on Friday under a plan that's being billed as the strictest in the nation among states that have authorized the drug's medicinal use, though it was unclear whether the Democratic governor plans to sign it.
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Colorado sheriffs sue over new gun restrictions
Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional.
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Treasury officials told of IRS probe in June 2012
Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general said Friday, disclosing that Obama administration officials knew there was a probe...
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Obama meets with new acting IRS head
The White House says President Barack Obama has met with Daniel Werfel, the new acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.
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