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The Internal Revenue Service is expected to dole out $70 million in bonuses to employees in the next several months.

Thousands of concerned Americans gathered on the Capitol lawn Wednesday to protest the IRS's targeting of conservative organizations.

Remember way back to 2010? When the Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow" was tearing up the charts and a hot new upstart political movement called the Tea Party was striking fear into socialists everywhere? What began on Tax Day in 2009 hit a high-water mark just 18 months later with a massive rally on the National Mall organized by Glenn Beck .

The Tea Party Patriots held an "Audit the IRS" rally Wednesday on the National Mall, and CBS News' Tolleah Price spoke with protesters about why they are demonstrating against the tax agency.

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Tea Party Patriots hold a rally to protest the Internal Revenue Service's abuse of power in targeting Tea Party and grassroots organizations for harassment in front of the Capitol in Washington, DC.

Backed by more than a dozen lawmakers from the House and the Senate, thousands of Tea Party activists gathered on the Capitol lawn to vent their frustration with the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups, the prospects of a comprehensive immigration reform bill passing through Congress, and the National Security Agency's ... (more)

A man holds a Don't Tread on Me sign at the rally Wednesday afternoon. While the focus was IRS scrutiny of conservative groups, speakers also called for securing the borders, repealing the health care law and limiting NSA surveillance.

Several thousand protesters poured onto the West Lawn of the Capitol Wednesday afternoon to join a tea party rally called "Audit the IRS."

More than a dozen FBI agents are assigned to a criminal probe into Internal Revenue Service scrutiny of conservative political groups, FBI Director Robert Mueller said on Wednesday.

More than a dozen FBI agents are assigned to a criminal probe into Internal Revenue Service scrutiny of conservative political groups, FBI Director Robert Mueller said on Wednesday.

Thousands of protesters staged a large rally on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday to broadcast their grievances against the Internal Revenue Service and what they described as an intrusive federal government.

ForAmerica President Brent Bozell rallied a crowd of Tea Partiers to chant "Fire Eric Holder" at Wednesday's 'Audit the IRS' rally at the Capitol.

Once the infrastructure is in place, the line between a soft tyranny and a hard one can be crossed at a moment's notice.

The Amarillo Tea Party Patriots invited president of Empower Texans, Michael Sullivan to their monthly meeting Tuesday to discuss what he discovered at the legislative session.

THIS WEEK , Arizona became the 24th state to approve Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare-but only because of the efforts of an extremely unlikely advocate: Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, a Tea Party hero who had once memorably wagged her finger in President Obama's face on an airport tarmac.

Some local members are considering abandoning Tea Party groups and instead joining Americans for Prosperity, a grassroots organization aimed at educating and mobilizing citizens around economic policy issues.

More Americans are coming to believe that the IRS 's scrutiny of conservative and Tea Party groups was ordered by the White House , according to a new national poll, CNN reported on Tuesday.

Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell swears in members of the House of Representatives on the first day of the Alaska State Legislature in Juneau, Alaska, Jan. 15, 2013.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Democratic ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, released more than 200 pages of interview transcripts Tuesday afternoon after the committee's Chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa , refused to do so.