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Acting IRS commissioner resigns, Obama says
WASHINGTON – President Obama announced the resignation Wednesday evening of Steven Miller, acting commissioner of the embattled Internal Revenue Service, a move the president said was essential to restore the public’s faith following...
Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Tea Party Movement, Marco Rubio, Internal Revenue Service
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Obama Cabinet picks advance after party-line votes
WASHINGTON – Two of President Obama’s second-term Cabinet nominees inched forward Thursday, while another was poised to win final confirmation by the Senate. Thomas E. Perez, Obama’s choice to lead the Labor Department, and EPA nominee...
Tags: Career and Workplace, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Barack Obama, Labor Legislation, Politics
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Obama picks senior White House budget official to run troubled IRS as 2nd top official leaves
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the same day another top official announced plans to leave the agency amid the controversy...Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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IRS targeted conservative groups, official says
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service improperly singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny of their applications for nonprofit status, a top agency official said Friday, setting off calls for investigations into an organization...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Tea Party Movement, Darrell E Issa, Parties and Movements, Paul Ryan
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Perez vote delayed as confirmation fight intensifies
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee vote on Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez was postponed hours before it was set to take place Wednesday, highlighting what appears to be a growing partisan fight over the confirmation of the former Maryland official. ...Tags: U.S. Senate, Career and Workplace, Health and Safety at Work, Martin O'Malley, Parties and Movements
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The filibuster kills gun legislation and democracy
President Obama called it a shameful day for the Senate. A survivor of the Tucson shooting that wounded Gabby Giffords shouted from the gallery, "Shame on you." This was the response to the rejection of gun control. I was tempted to write the "voting...Tags: Democracy, Government, Religion and Belief, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama
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Ed Page On Facebook: Should Obama Press To Close Guantanamo Prison?
The following is an abridged conversation from www.facebook.com/edpagecourant. Is President Obama right to press once again to close the prison for purported terrorist combatants at Guantanamo? Mark Pappa: Close it and turn them over to Sheriff Joe in...Tags: Trials, U.S. Congress, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Elections
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Gabrielle Giffords' story a different kind of profile in courage
Gabrielle Giffords received a Profile in Courage award this weekend at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. The award is fitting, though she is displaying a different kind of courage than was celebrated by the late president in his 1957 best-selling...Tags: U.S. Senate, John McCain, Kelly Ayotte, Parties and Movements, National Rifle Association of America
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Republican senators boycott vote on EPA nominee
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans boycotted a committee vote Thursday on President Obama's nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, drawing accusations of obstructionism from Democrats. Republicans on the Senate...
Tags: U.S. Senate, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Thomas Edward Perez, Science and Technology, Jay Carney
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John David Dyche: Grimes makes her case for U.S. Senate run
If Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, a Democrat, decides to run against incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell for the U. S. Senate next year, her announcement might go something like this ... if she is completely candid. The scene: a...Tags: Lawyers, U.S. Senate, Ronald Reagan, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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For Obama, 2014 is his number
WASHINGTON -- Thirty-one months ago Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell affronted the media and other custodians of propriety by saying something common-sensical. On Oct. 23, 2010, he said: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Washington, DC, Voting, Politics
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Senate Republicans stonewall Obama's EPA nominee
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans boycotted a committee vote Thursday morning on President Obama’s nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, prompting accusations of obstructionism from Democrats and calls to...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Barack Obama, Environmental Issues, Gina McCarthy
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