Immigration Services officer Norma Christian speaks with an immigrant before a naturalization ceremony held at … The president of a union that represents 12,000 United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) employees announced his opposition to the immigration reform bill in the Senate on Monday morning. “The legislation will provide legal status to millions of visa [...]
May 20 2013 | Posted in
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President Obama gives the commencement address at Morehouse College, May 19, 2013. (Jason Reed/Reuters) President Barack Obama took a break from the trifecta of controversies—IRS, Department of Justice, Benghazi—swirling around the White House on Sunday to deliver the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution in Atlanta. “What I ask of you [...]
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The IRS Building (AP/File) Republican Senators Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and Rob Portman continued Sunday to press the Obama administration on the Internal Revenue Service scandal that’s engulfed the White House. On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Paul told Candy Crowley he heard about a “written policy” that encouraged IRS officials to target “those who [...]
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issa Much has been made of the fact that senior Treasury Department officials were told about the investigation into the treatment of tea party groups in June 2012 – months before last year’s the Presidential election. Republicans who requested the investigation were also told about it at approximately the same time. In a letter dated [...]
May 19 2013 | Posted in
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obama After a week filled with political scandals, President Obama turned to promoting his jobs tour in his weekly address Saturday. “That’s why I like getting out of the Washington echo chamber whenever I can – because too often, our politics aren’t focused on the same things you are. Working hard. Supporting your family and [...]
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After a week filled with controversy and criticism for the administration, President Barack Obama leaves town Friday for a previously-scheduled trip to Baltimore, Md. to press his economic agenda. Obama will spend the day attempting to underscore White House efforts to boost the middle-class, job growth and education as he tours a Baltimore elementary school, [...]
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Today marks the one-week anniversary of the Internal Revenue Service’s disclosure that it improperly scrutinized certain conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. As an inspector general report on the practice found, groups with phrases like “tea party,” “patriots” and “9/12 project” were targeted for the , and often ended up waiting two years for notice [...]
May 18 2013 | Posted in
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(Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images)Following a rough, scandal-filled week in Washington, President Barack Obama got dressed down by a bunch of kids. During a visit to Moravia Park Elementary School in Baltimore, Md., Friday, the president was asked to do another challenging task: Draw a tiger. “I got to help with one of the lessons. We [...]
May 17 2013 | Posted in
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While applying with the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status in 2009, an Iowa-based anti-abortion group was asked to provide information about its members’ prayer meetings, show documents sent by an IRS official to the organization. On June 22, 2009, the Coalition for Life of Iowa received a letter from the IRS office in Cincinnati, [...]
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Outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller on Friday apologized on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service for unfairly targeting conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, but said “partisanship” was not the reason for the agency’s practices. “First and foremost, as acting commissioner, I want to apologize on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service,” Miller said before [...]
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