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Obama's Last Chance to Convince Congress to Strike Syria
September 9, 2013 President Obama's best – and perhaps last – chance to convince reluctant members of Congress to support a Syria strike may be simply getting them out of their districts and back inside the Beltway bubble. With constituent phone calls and emails running overwhelming against intervention, proponents of striking Syria for ...
Post-Iraq Invasion Congress Members Demand a Vote on Syria
August 30, 2013 The push for a congressional vote ahead of any military strike in Syria is being spearheaded largely by lawmakers who were not in Congress during the run-up to the war in Iraq. As of Friday, Republican Rep. Scott Rigell had collected the signatures of at least 140 House members demanding ...
In Congress, It's the Fresher Faces Pushing for Vote on Syria Strike
August 30, 2013 The push for a congressional vote ahead of any military strike in Syria is being spearheaded largely by lawmakers who were not in Congress during the run-up to the war in Iraq. As of Wednesday, Republican Rep. Scott Rigell had collected the signatures of 140 House members demanding that President ...
Democrats: New Documents Definitively Show 'Progressive' Groups Targeted Too
August 20, 2013 The document drip in the Internal Revenue Service probe continued on Tuesday, with top congressional Democrats releasing new information that they said definitively shows the tax agency applied heightened scrutiny to both progressive and conservative groups. Democrats and Republicans have engaged in a series of strategic leaks since the probe ...
Push for a Government Shutdown Over Obamacare Falls on Hard Times
August 20, 2013 The GOP drive to defund Obamacare is leaking oil. From the leaders of the GOP establishment to usual tea-party allies, a growing number of Republicans are splitting with movement conservatives who are pushing to shut down the federal government if funding is not cut off for President Obama's health care ...
The Republican Plan to Exploit the IRS Scandal (Even Without a Smoking Gun)
July 2, 2013 Republicans still haven’t found that smoking gun tying the White house to the IRS's targeting of tea-party groups. But that won't stop them from selling the scandal to voters as evidence Democrats cannot be trusted in Washington. The public’s dislike of the IRS is so visceral and details of the ...
Nearly 1 in 5 Members of Congress Is Paid Twice
June 28, 2013 To solve the debt crisis, Americans—who are already suffering in these tough economic times—will have to make even more sacrifices, Rep. Mike Coffman told his House colleagues last year. So, leaning on his military service, the 58-year-old Colorado Republican argued that members of Congress should take the first step and ...
How Many Times Can You Retire From Government?
June 17, 2013 Texas Republican John Cornyn supplemented his Senate salary with a trio of public pensions last year from his days as a Texas judge and elected official—a practice some fiscal watchdog groups have attacked as “double dipping.” Cornyn, who is the minority whip and the No. 2 ranking Republican in the ...
Lawmakers Continue to Probe IRS
June 3, 2013 Congress returns from a weeklong recess with inquiries into the Internal Revenue Service still atop its agenda, as three more hearings have been set and a lawsuit has been filed in federal court. On Monday, President Obama’s new pick to run the embattled tax agency, Danny Werfel, will make his ...
Meet the Man Who Set Off the IRS Firestorm
May 22, 2013 J. Russell George paused for just a moment before he took his seat at the witness table. He wanted to take it all in. The Treasury inspector general whose audit of the IRS had set off a national firestorm had been in this very room before—three decades earlier. That was ...
