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The US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ronald C. Machen - the man responsible for the aggressive surveillance and phone record scrutiny at Fox News - is also a big donor to the Obama Campaigns.

The former head of the IRS said Tuesday that he was aware of some aspects of his agency's targeting of conservative groups in the spring of 2012, and took what he called the correct action of ensuring the situation would be independently reviewed.

Legislation targeting patent trolls is picking up steam in Congress. Sen. John Cornyn became the latest lawmaker to offer a solution, introducing a bill aimed at making it easier for the victims of frivolous patent suits to fight back.

A number of bills targeting Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program advanced in the US Congress.

WELCOME TO THE PRO REPORT, where we have a boatload of news for you: the latest on the IRS hearings , the Capitol Hill smackdown on Apple and the Oklahoman aid political rumblings already starting to buzz.

The mainstream media has a lousy reputation for upholding the Bill of Rights, especially when it comes to the Second Amendment's right to keep and bear arms, the Fourth Amendment's right to privacy and the Tenth Amendment's limitation on federal power.

The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status told Congress on Tuesday that he knew little about what was happening while he was still commissioner.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are focused on wooing two conservative Republican senators they consider crucial to expanding support for immigration reform beyond the Gang of Eight and maximizing pressure on the House.

The great Charles Pierce may deride it as "Tiger Beat on the Potomac," but sometimes I'm damn grateful we have Politico.

Critics of the Senate Gang of Eight's proposal say little has been done since the 9/11 terrorist attacks to plug a loophole that has allowed millions to remain in the United States illegally.

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obama's spokesman disclosed Monday, expanding the circle of top officials who knew of the audit beyond those named earlier.

Lamar Alexander has an inventive way of fending off potential primary foes, one that could be a model for GOP incumbents running in 2014.

The Associated Press' president and chief executive says the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records has already had a chilling effect on newsgathering, a week after the subpoenas were revealed publicly.

The White House may invoke it in its peculiar way, but its occupants only show contempt for the rule of law.

The latest on the Benghazi, IRS and AP leak investigations with White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer, Sen.

They are both Texans. They entered the State Legislature together in 1991. And each now serves in the United States Congress.

The American people have lost faith in U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr ., and he must be replaced, a top GOP senator said Sunday.

The White House on Sunday accused Republicans of conducting political "fishing expeditions," while Republican lawmakers showed no let up in attacking President Barack Obama's administration for a culture of what they called cover-up and "intimidation." With controversies on three fronts - the Internal Revenue Service, the administration's ... (more)

Scandals like the I.R.S. targeting the Tea Party in recent years are custom made for cable news and its network equivalents, the Sunday morning talk shows.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the 37th repeal of the Affordable Care Act up on May 17.