By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times
The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday said the IRS scandal shows a “culture of cover-ups” and “political intimidation” within the Obama administration. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that President Obama violated the Constitution when he made a recess appointment to the National Labor Relations Board, marking the second panel to rebuke the administration and making the issue even more likely to draw Supreme Court scrutiny. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
States already have begun to tackle the sticky issue of drones and their effect on personal privacy. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
Mark Sanford is now a member of Congress two years after he stepped down as governor of South Carolina following a highly publicized extramarital affair. Perhaps, then, it should be no surprise to learn that disgraced former presidential candidate and North Carolina senator John Edwards is plotting his own comeback. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
The chairman of the House oversight committee on Friday subpoenaed the senior diplomat who ran the State Department’s investigation into the Benghazi attack, saying lawmakers deserve to be able to depose him before he testifies publicly. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Add to the list of IRS targets: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
While much of Washington was riveted Friday on a Republican-led congressional hearing into abuse of power by the IRS, President Obama traveled to Baltimore to promote a jobs plan and decry lawmakers for “chasing every fleeting issue.” Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
An exasperated Rep. Pat Tiberi on Friday asked the former acting chief of the IRS to explain to Congress why he would move the leader of the division that targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status to a branch that is overseeing one of the most partisan issues of recent memory — President Obama’s health care law. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times
The tragedy of Benghazi, where a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, seemed a cut-and-dried story in the days after a mob attacked the State Department’s mission in eastern Libya. Today, the public knows that those early administration pronouncements were false. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Standing in a drizzle that seemed to define his bad week, President Obama called on Congress on Thursday to boost security at U.S. embassies around the globe, seeking to deflect the issue onto lawmakers as the controversy simmers over the deadly terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in September. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
President Obama Thursday appointed Daniel Werfel as acting Commissioner of the IRS, moving swiftly to try to stem the controversy over the agency’s targeting of conservative groups. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
There’s an immeasurably deep cleavage between left and right in America, illustrated vividly in the way Americans regard the Benghazi scandal and outrage. It’s in the DNA. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times
The ousted head of the IRS on Friday said he was sorry for his agency's targeting conservative and tea party groups for special scrutiny, while a Republican leader said blame could reach as high as the White House. Published May 17, 2013
By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
Sen. Joe Manchin III, West Virginia Democrat, says the ongoing scandal surrounding the IRS certainly doesn't help his chances of winning expanded gun-purchase background checks. Published May 17, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
The woman who ran the Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt organizations division has been promoted, and now heads the agency's health care office, ABC news reported. Published May 17, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
House Republicans cheered their vote on Thursday to repeal President Obama's health care law as the triumph of reason and public opinion over false promises from the White House. Democrats called them insane. Published May 16, 2013
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Two key senators said Thursday that Homeland Security officials should face discipline for their role earlier this year in releasing 622 criminal immigrants, including 32 with multiple felony convictions, in a move the Obama administration initially blamed on the budget sequester cuts. Published May 16, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
Chris Christie's first foray into diplomacy has come at an unlikely place: the Jersey Shore boardwalk. The New Jersey governor and rumored 2016 presidential candidate doubled as a tour guide this week as he showed Britain's Prince Harry the damage done by Hurricane Sandy. Published May 16, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
On a party-line vote, a key Senate committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, a significant step forward for the controversial nominee and one that ends, at least temporarily, a bitter fight between Republicans and Democrats. Published May 16, 2013
