Under pressure to show who's boss, President Obama called a press conference late Wednesday to say he was “angry” that the IRS singled out conservative groups for extra vetting and to announce that the agency’s acting commissioner had been forced out.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The new Interior Department secretary, Sally Jewell, tells a panel of senators that, in her words, "Indian education is embarrassing."
Under pressure to show who's boss, President Obama called a press conference late Wednesday to say he was “angry” that the IRS singled out conservative groups for extra vetting and to announce that the agency’s acting commissioner had been forced out.
The White House, in an effort to calm the swirl of controversy about the reaction to last year’s attacks on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, late Wednesday released more than 100 pages of e-mails leading to the development of talking points that attempted to explain the violence that left four Americans dead. The e-mails had earlier been shown to members of Congress but the White House had resisted releasing them, citing the precedent of protecting internal discussions within an administration.
The White House is beginning to prioritize. Faced with answering suddenly non-stop questions about three different controversies of varying legitimacy — the Benghazi talking points, the Associated Press subpoena, and IRS audits — President Obama and his spokesman have now more or less officially shifted their public energy to dealing with the IRS targeting of "tea party" and "patriot" keywords, and more or less ignoring the other two. After all, people are getting in actual trouble with the IRS affair.
In May 2011, Drew Ryun, a conservative activist and former Republican National Committee staffer, began filling out the Internal Revenue Service application to achieve non-profit status for a new conservative watchdog group. He submitted the paperwork to the IRS in July 2011 for a news site called Media Trackers, which calls itself a "non-partisan investigative [...]
As predicted, Wednesday afternoon's testimony by Attorney General Eric Holder focused heavily on recent revelations that the Department of Justice subpoenaed phone records from the Associated Press following their publishing leaked information about a terror attack. The House Judiciary Committee had the wrong guy at the witness table, though, since Holder, who'd recused himself from the matter couldn't offer much new information. This left the committee members to fill the time by attacking their political opponents over that and other issues.
The White House, in an effort to calm the swirl of controversy about the reaction to last year’s attacks on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, late Wednesday released more than 100 pages of e-mails leading to the development of talking points that attempted to explain the violence that left four Americans dead. The e-mails had earlier been shown to members of Congress but the White House had resisted releasing them, citing the precedent of protecting internal discussions within an administration.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs says more than 10,000 workers who handle disability claims will be required to work at least 20 hours of overtime each month in an effort reduce a sizable backlog.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama will meet with Treasury officials Wednesday to discuss the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for special review. White House press secretary Jay Carney says Obama expects people to be held accountable.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel informed President Barack Obama of the latest sexual assault allegations against a soldier who was assigned to prevent such crimes — the second soldier involved in similar accusations — and the president made clear he wants that behavior stopped, officials said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A key House panel responsible for implementing sweeping cuts to agency budgets would exempt veterans and largely protect spending on border safety and other homeland security programs.
Straight up: This will only be of interest to foreign policy nerds, and people interested in the fate of U.S. relations with this particular Asian country (Shout-out: Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Republican senate minority leader, and resident expert in Congress on this issue). The White House announced Wednesday that President Barack Obama next week will [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of the House Judiciary Committee are expressing serious concerns about the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at The Associated Press.
Some time in roughly the next 15 to 25 years, immigration will become the primary driver of U.S. population growth, overtaking “natural” increases for the first time in nearly 200 years.
It only took Attorney General Eric Holder a few moments to make clear he wanted no part of congressional Republicans’ plans to turn his Capitol Hill appearance into a serious grilling about the scandals of the day.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's official prediction is that white children will become a minority in 2018 and the overall white population in the U.S. will follow suit in 2043.
