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President Barack Obama and White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer, right, react to a reporter's question as they leave the Treasury Department in Washington, Jan.

As controversies continue to fester over the IRS, Benghazi and the Justice Department's seizure of reporters' phone records, 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney condemned the government for a "breach of trust" during an interview on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" broadcast Friday night.

The latest controversy comes in the form of Washington, D.C. organizations that are endorsed by opponents of LGBT rights in Pocatello, influencing community members.

The Treasury Department's inspector general told senior Treasury officials in June 2012 he was investigating allegations that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted conservative groups, disclosing for the first time on Friday that Obama administration officials were aware of the matter during the presidential campaign year.

The scandal surrounding the IRS' targeting of conservative groups continued to swirl Friday, and for a moment, a local organization became the focal point of a key hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Michael Beckel talked about the tax-exempt unit of the Internal Revenue Service and revelations that the agency targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.Topics included that day's Wall .. Read More Michael Beckel talked about the tax-exempt unit of the Internal Revenue Service and revelations that the agency targeted conservative ... (more)

Sen. John Valentine, the legislator behind most of the recent changes to Utah's liquor laws, said Wednesday it's too soon to say whether he will sponsor a bill next session lowering the blood alcohol level for impaired driving.

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, shown in January 2012, will headline the Ohio Republican Party's annual dinner next month in Columbus.

For a brief period on the morning of May 17, MSNBC was actually acting like a real news network.

European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn addresses the media at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels earlier this month.

U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore is the latest politician to take a political risk and appear on The Colbert Report with comedian Stephen Colbert .

ELIZABETH JACKSON: In the US, Republicans have pushed hard on Capitol Hill to get to the bottom of a tax scandal that threatens to keep dogging the White House.

President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the coming decade, using nearly $6 in higher revenues for every $1 in reduced spending to achieve it, Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst said Friday.

The Sunday morning talk shows will find a lot to talk about in the Washington controversies over the IRS , the Department of Justice and the Benghazi attack.

Irate lawmakers grilled Steven Miller on Friday, demanding to know who was responsible for the IRS' targeting of Tea-Party groups, why it continued, and why no one told Congress about it.

A huge increase in workload, rather than deliberate targeting, led to "foolish mistakes" and the political discrimination an inspector general's report found in the Internal Revenue Service, the outgoing commissioner of the agency said Friday.

Public Policy Polling, a firm generally identified with Democrats, has found former Florida Gov.

House Republicans late Thursday began circulating new spending targets for appropriations bills for the coming year with Labor, Education and Health and Human Services facing a nearly 20 percent reduction on top of the cuts already made in the March 1 sequestration order.

House Republicans voted on Thursday afternoon to repeal Obamacare - the third dead-end vote to wipe out the law entirely and the 37th vote to partially repeal or dismantle it.

A bipartisan group of congressional leaders recently introduced the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, which would give LGBT Americans the freedom to build successful careers without facing on-the-job discrimination or harassment.