Lew asks Congress for debt increase, says it's 'not open to debate'
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew urged congressional leaders Friday to raise the debt limit as soon as possible, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew urged congressional leaders Friday to raise the debt limit as soon as possible, and insisted that the White House is not going to negotiate over it because Congres...
UPDATED: IRS tax exemption/Obamacare exec got $103,390 in bonuses; Did Obama OK them?
Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative Tea Party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012.More recently, Ingram was promoted to serve as director of...
Top Dem calls for public testimony on Benghazi
The top Democrat on the House Oversight panel said Monday that the authors of an independent investigation into the deadly assault in Benghazi, Libya, should answer questions about their work at a congressional hearing, not in a private...
Jim Inhofe mulls 'I-word' after Benghazi
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said the fatal attacks on American diplomats in Benghazi could lead to President Barack Obama's impeachment during a radio interview Friday. "People may be starting to use the I-word before too long," Inhofe said during a discussion of Benghazi on ...
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
Civil rights advocates are worrying that immigration reform the Senate began debating yesterday is the first step toward a national identification system that would grow into a dossier on Americans and chronicle our most every move. That's because buried in the more than 800-plus-page p...
On Benghazi probe, GOP's Issa says 'Hillary Clinton's not a target'
A top GOP critic pushed back Sunday on charges that Republican efforts to investigate last year's Benghazi attack are designed to inflict political damage on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. ...
McConnell: IRS Revelations 'Just The Beginning'
On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fired back on assertions by the IRS that its efforts to target conservative groups were relegated to low-level employees. "Of course not," he told Breitbart News. McConnell noted that he had raised the issue of IRS targeting of...
Republican expects more Benghazi 'whistle blowers'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Republican on Sunday said he expected more witnesses to step forward with information about last year's deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi and how President Barack...
Obama to Attend 3 Democratic Fundraisers
Recharged tea party demands justice in IRS targeting scandal
Tea partiers rally to condemn the IRS for subjecting conservative groups to excessive scrutiny...
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