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Share + Dec 2, 2009 10:30 pm US/Central 1 of 4 White House party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi are declining an invitation to testify before Congress about their caper last week at the president's first state dinner.

Secret Service officials told members of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee that human error allowed Tareq and Michaele Salahi into the Obama administration's first state dinner earlier this month.

The top Republican on the House Oversight committee on Thursday challenged Louisiana officials about what the state is doing to financially help itself and asked if Louisiana is becoming a "permanent ward of the federal government" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Happy Wednesday! The White House hosts a jobs summit on Thursday and continues to defend the economic stimulus program against charges that it's fudging the number of jobs created by the federal spending program.

Rep. Darrell Issa , on how Eric Holder is forcing Americans to finance ACORN with Laura Ingraham Laura Ingraham hosted Rep.

A plan to coax government workers to return Uncle Sam's property in return for cash incentives was put to an end Wednesday, according to a congressman.

The White House is refusing to send its social secretary to Congress on Thursday to testify about the gatecrashing at last week's state dinner - a decision that prompted complaints from the top Republican on the committee holding the hearing.

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, is in the process of changing its name and has already transferred many of its resources to several other left-wing advocacy and political groups, according to a report released Tuesday by Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

A handful of House Republicans did their best on Tuesday to shame Democrats and the Obama administration for its supposed connections to the controversial anti-poverty group ACORN.

Just when you thought it was safe to move on past the Recovery Act job reporting numbers story.

The Justice Department has instructed federal agencies to honor contracts with ACORN that were signed before Congress banned the community advocacy organization from receiving any further government funding earlier this year.

The world's attention on Tuesday will be on President Obama's speech on Afghanistan.

On the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the partisanship has gotten so bad that major investigations have been affected, including a wide-ranging inquest into the financial meltdown.

Regardless of the merits of the climate change debate, one expert warns that any data breach should put organizations on alert to shore up their defenses -- and employees to watch what they say in email.

A Housing and Urban Development Department lawyer asked the Justice Department whether the new law meant that pre-existing contracts with Acorn should be broken.

In an effort to find the truth about Inspector General Gerald Walpin's firing, some more details about the investigation into St.

A GOP congressional report accuses the White House of doing favors for Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a former NBA star and prominent ally of President Barack Obama.

Obama's sacked inspector general: CUNY's missing millions overlooked in Walpin-gate >> Posted By RTHTGakaRoland 5 hours, 22 minutes ago in Political Opinion Even as congressional investigators demolish White House explanations for its firing last summer of a key inspector general, new documents show that an entire second area of misleading ...

A few days after leaked e-mail messages appeared on the Internet, the U.S. Congress may probe whether prominent scientists who are advocates of global warming theories misrepresented the truth about climate change.

Keeping up their attack on the Obama administration's stimulus plan, top House Republicans today urged the man in charge to stop claiming jobs that haven't been confirmed.