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Tim Walz that explicitly banned insider trading by congressional members and government employees was hailed by watchdog groups as one of the most significant congressional reforms in more than a decade.

Despite the uproar over the Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of certain Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status, the IRS should be doing more - not less - to ensure that only those organizations that truly qualify for tax-exempt status get it.

But it is the one that matters most to IT. Don't look for a short, sweet process of H-1B reform.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday rejected a proposal requiring the government to implement the E-Verify program to combat illegal immigration 18 months after enactment of immigration reform.

Attorney General Eric Holder snapped at members of House Judiciary Committee. "I don't, frankly, think I've always been treated with respect, and it's not even a personal thing," he said.

Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday lashed out at Rep. Darrell Issa , calling his conduct "unacceptable and shameful." In a tense moment at a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Holder clashed with the lawmaker who led the successful vote in the House finding the nation's top cop in contempt of Congress.

Rep. Louise Slaughter, the top Democrat on the powerful House rules committee, has a response to Republican efforts to water-down financial reform legislation: Tie it to political intelligence.

Senators fended off changes to the immigration bill in committee on Tuesday, but the first cracks emerged in the carefully crafted compromise between business groups and labor unions, leaving even some supporters frustrated at the defensive votes they had to cast.

Half of the billion dollars allocated to cover implementation of the Affordable Care Act went to the IRS.

Here's a novel development, or least it would be if it happened in the U.S.: The U.K.'s accounting watchdog on May 9 said it had placed KPMG Audit Plc under two separate investigations in connection with its audits of a car seller and the conduct of one of the firm's partners.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday began debate on more than 300 amendments to the comprehensive immigration bill, including a number of changes to sections on H-1B visas.

Amendments proposed by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa would have put more requirements on high-tech companies seeking to bring foreign workers to the U.S. on visas.

Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle were asking questions Tuesday about the Justice Department's subpoena of telephone records involving editors and reporters at The Associated Press, with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to pass a proposal Tuesday meant to improve information-sharing on foreign students a direct influence of last month's Boston bombings on the ongoing immigration debate on Capitol Hill.

In April, Townhall reported illegal border crossings had doubled in light of amnesty talk on Capitol Hill and potential cutting of Border Patrol hours.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office of Government Relations has announced its position on 15 proposed amendments to the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013, the immigration-reform legislation proposed by a bipartisan group of eight senators in April.

So Rand Paul had his Big Day in Iowa Friday, capped by an informal but red-meaty speech at the state GOP's annual fundraising dinner that had the folks on their feet and issuing feral roars.

The researcher whose report prompted a spike in health stocks last month appears to have relied on lobbyists rather than U.S. government insiders who had direct knowledge of a pending healthcare decision, according to emails reviewed by Reuters.

Chuck Grassley remembers the makeshift court hearings in the Waterloo Cattle Congress barn.

Congress has a long road ahead on immigration reform. The Senate Judiciary Committee has started to consider some 300 amendments challenging the nearly 900-page long bill crafted by the Gang of Eight.