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Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Government Oversight Committee, delivers on his promise to call committee Chairman Darrell Issa's bluff: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have just released a full transcript of testimony from a key witness in the investigation of IRS targeting of conservatives - and it appears to ... (more)

Rep. Elijah Cummings , ranking member of the committee, released interview transcripts in which an IRS manager in Cincinnati said he elevated the first tea party case that led the agency to begin singling out conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Government Oversight Committee, delivers on his promise to call committee Chairman Darrell Issa's bluff: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have just released a full transcript of testimony from a key witness in the investigation of IRS targeting of conservatives - and it appears to ... (more)

The hearing with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will be the second of its kind this year.

It's Eat Your Vegetables Day? Do you? What veggies do you love? What veggies do you hate? Where do you stand in the War on Drugs? Do you advocate for any or all legalization? Please remember: we have a government, a president, and politics, but you have a regime, a strongman, and sectarian interests.

It is hoped that Big Chuck will not be ejected from Daily Kos for suggesting that we should consider letting states opt out of Obamcare.

Internal Revenue Service director of rulings and agreements Holly Paz explained that the IRS simply used "tea party" as shorthand for politically-involved groups in profiling non-profit applicants.

Today, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste praised members of the House of Representatives for agreeing to amendment #117, the Federal IT Procurement Reform Act , to the fiscal year 2014 National Defense Authorization Act .

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa subpoenaed documents from a controversial ObamaCare program on Friday after charging that the Obama administration had denied his request several times.

President Barack Obama has shown "disdain" for Congress by not honoring its subpoenas, Sen. John McCain wrote to the president.

Over the weekend, USA Today reported on revelations that an agency executive in D.C. admitted to reviewing Tea Party applications.

The US House of Representatives took an important step last week toward the restoration of the separation of powers that was established so that Congress would check and balance presidential warmaking.

One of the best advertisements of the last 50 years was a television commercial for hamburgers.

Finally, our polarized political leaders have found their bipartisan spirit. Lloyd Green on why members of congress from both sides of the aisle like government data mining.

When front-line tax agents in Cincinnati used the term 'tea party,' they didn't just mean conservative groups.

Multiple federal investigations are probing the $2 billion Obamacare co-op loan program at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, The Washington Examiner has learned.

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough explains how the "scope and scale" of U.S. aid to Syrian rebels will expand.

The top Democrat on the House's Oversight Committee tells Ben Jacobs that Chairman Darrell Issa is "scrambling .

If House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's faltering inquisition of the IRS seems familiar, it should.

Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to meet with House Republicans in their probe into whether he misled Congress or acted inappropriately in the Justice Department's investigation of leaks to media outlets, Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia said.