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Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham on Friday offered a preemptive defense of President Obama's nominee to head European affairs at the State Department amid concerns about her role in the Benghazi talking points.

I remember back when Karl Rove was considered some sort of election-bending genius.

For the far right, dreams die hard and delusions never end. As Rep. Darrell Issa , who represents a congressional GOP with unpopularity of 75 percent, prepares to summon former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with popularity above 60 percent, to testify, the overreach of House Republicans now threatens Republican control of the House.

House Republican leaders on Thursday made it clear that their chamber would proceed with immigration reform on its own terms.

With the full Senate starting its debate on a comprehensive immigration bill, Republican lawmakers in the House have released a plan of their own.

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IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, before the House Oversight Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny IRS gave to Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.

Congressional and administration sources confirm that IRS director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner has been placed on administrative leave.

Because it's not a real scandal unless the White House is involved, those with an interest in tarnishing the president have made the new front line in the IRS controversy a question over whether the administration should have taken earlier action to stop the agency's targeting of conservative groups, even before the completion of the Treasury ... (more)

Rep. Trey Gowdy became a viral sensation on Wednesday with his tough questioning of former IRS head Doug Shulman during a House hearing on the IRS targeting of conservatives.

Three days of congressional hearings about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups have lawmakers looking for ways to widen an investigation that has so far been largely contained within the tax collection agency.

If you're a foreign student who studied for an advanced math or science degree in the United States, you might know how tough it can be to stay in the country when you're done with your studies.

House Speaker John Boehner can't imagine President Obama didn't know about the IRS investigation until it became public: House Speaker John Boehner said in an interview aired late Wednesday that it's "inconceivable" someone didn't inform President Obama about the IRS's targeting of conservative groups.

Since the appearance of three State Department whistleblowers, House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa and former Ambassador Thomas Pickering have engaged in a public war of words over the investigation into Benghazi.

Imagine the dark truth these strange days: what we do see is only a small portion of the evil operating throughout the world; what is to be revealed will be even more stunning; and what remains unseen is much worse.

Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee attend a hearing about last year's deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2013.

You can take the flack out of the DNC but you can't take the DNC out of the flack, especially it's MSNBC regular and newly-minted weekend host Karen Finney, who today said that Mitt Romney should have made a bigger deal out of the IRS scandal on the campaign trail.

Got AMMO? That should be the TV commercial that all the gun rights organizations are running! It continues to be a challenge to get various types of ammunition all across the country.

In today's hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government reform, IRS Exempt Organizations director Lois Lerner will be taking the Fifth.

At the center of a political storm, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents targeted conservative groups swore Wednesday she did nothing wrong, broke no laws and never lied to Congress.