IRS Defends Agency ‘Obamacare’ Official
Despite her congressional testimony, the Internal Revenue Service today denied that the former commissioner of tax exempt and government entities – now running the agency’s health care office – was in charge of the unit’s day-to-day operations after Dec. 2010. Sarah Hall Ingram retained the title of… Read More »
EmailIRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office
The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation. Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations… Read More »
IRS Asks for Reading List, Tea Party Group Sends Constitution
When Marion Bower decided to start her tea party organization in 2010, she didn’t know that it would take nearly two years for the Internal Revenue Service to approve her request for tax-exempt status. The Ohio woman also did not expect that providing information about… Read More »
New NRA President Jim Porter Knocked ‘Fake President’ Obama
The NRA has a new president, Birmingham, Ala., attorney Jim Porter, and he has a knack for firing up a crowd if his old stump speeches are any indication. Porter, who until this week was first vice president at the NRA and chairman of the… Read More »
VP Biden Says He Needs Cops’ Help to Reinstate ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban and Much More
“We have to have a comprehensive way in which to respond to the mass murder of our children that we saw in Connecticut,” said Vice President Joe Biden today, meeting with the leaders of law enforcement organizations whom he said had been his “friends and… Read More »
The Benghazi Report and Parents of Children With Mental Illness: Today’s Qs for O’s WH, 12/20/12
TAPPER: Has the president read the Accountability Review Board report? CARNEY: I don’t know. I haven’t — I know he has been briefed on it. I don’t know if he’s read it word for word, but he’s a voracious reader, so he may have. TAPPPER:… Read More »
President Obama Prepares for Action Against Gun Violence
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Senior Administration Officials Tell Biz Leaders Boehner’s Plan B Could Lead Nation Off Fiscal Cliff
Senior Obama administration officials met with business leaders to argue that House Speaker John Boehner’s “Plan B” could put the nation on a path to go over the fiscal cliff, a source familiar with the meeting told ABC News this afternoon. The effort is just… Read More »
President Obama Urges GOP to ‘Take the Deal’ and Avoid Fiscal Cliff
With just 12 days until tax increases and steep spending cuts kick in, President Obama today urged Republicans to “peel off the partisan war paint” and compromise on a deal to avoid going over the “fiscal cliff.” Speaking at a White House news conference, Obama… Read More »
Where Have You Been on Gun Violence? Today’s Q for O – 12/19/12
TAPPER: It seems to a lot of observers that you made the political calculation in 2008, in your first term and in 2012 not to talk about gun violence. You had your position on renewing the ban on semiautomatic rifles that then Senator Biden put… Read More »
