Print Wynton Hall Read Full Bio EXCLUSIVE: IRS Org Chart Puts Ingram, Lerner at Center of Power An official Internal Revenue Service (IRS) organizational chart of the Tax Exempt & Government Entities division from February 2011 offers a more complete picture of the authority Lois Lerner--the now-removed IRS director of the tax-exempt unit--and Sarah Hall Ingram--presently tasked with overseeing the implementation of Obamacare--held as the IRS scheme to politically target conservative groups was hatched. 23 May 2013 Disgraced IRS Chiefs: IRS Needs More Money In their attempts to shift blame and evade clear answers to questions about the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups, disgraced former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman and disgraced former Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller both said that what the IRS really needs are more people and money to function properly. 23 May 2013 Democrats Use McCain Comments to Paint GOP as Obstructionist Senate Democrats are looking to paint a recent Republican fracas between Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) as further evidence of an obstructionist GOP whose recalcitrance is bogging down budget negotiations. 23 May 2013 Bernanke Comments, Sluggish China Data Ignite Stock Sell Off U.S. stocks were down nearly 1% in early trading as the Nikkei experienced its largest drop in two years, closing 225 down, with news that Chinese factory figures shrank for the first time in seven months. Also worrying were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments indicating that the days of printing nearly-free money—known as quantitative easing—may soon be scaled back. 23 May 2013 Labor Force Participation Rate Higher For Foreign-Born Workers than Native-Born On Wednesday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate for the 25 million foreign-born persons in the U.S. labor force dropped one percent from 9.1% in 2011 to 8.1% in 2012. 22 May 2013 Milbank: Reporter Snooping Actions 'Shatter the President's Credibility' “If Obama really is ‘a fierce defender of the First Amendment,’ as his spokesman would have it, he will move quickly to fix this,” wrote Milbank. “Otherwise, Obama is establishing an ominous precedent for future leaders whose fondness for the First Amendment may not be so fierce.” 22 May 2013 Chuck Todd: Obama Wants to 'Criminalize Journalism' Todd said individuals he now talks to are “quite uncomfortable having conversations on the phone. Maybe that’s the intent.” The NBC reporter added: “you can't look at this and see it as anything other than an attempt to basically scare anybody from ever leaking anything ever again.” 22 May 2013 Report: 'Rogue' IRS Agent Claim Unraveling An investigation by Cincinnati Fox 19 reporter Ben Swann finds that Obama Administration claims that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting of conservative groups was the work of two “rogue” low-level employees in Cincinnati, Ohio, strain credulity and are "falling apart." 22 May 2013 Federal Worker Regulations Make Firing IRS Agents Difficult The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents who politically targeted conservative and tea party groups may be able to appeal and significantly delay any attempts to fire them due to federal worker regulations. 22 May 2013 Top Dem: 'There Will Be Hell To Pay' If IRS Keeps Stonewalling Outrage was bipartisan. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) said that if witnesses today are not more forthcoming and stonewall the committee, “it will lead to a special prosecutor” in order “to get to the bottom of this” and “there will be hell to pay if that’s the route we go done.” 22 May 2013 Previous 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Next
EXCLUSIVE: IRS Org Chart Puts Ingram, Lerner at Center of Power An official Internal Revenue Service (IRS) organizational chart of the Tax Exempt & Government Entities division from February 2011 offers a more complete picture of the authority Lois Lerner--the now-removed IRS director of the tax-exempt unit--and Sarah Hall Ingram--presently tasked with overseeing the implementation of Obamacare--held as the IRS scheme to politically target conservative groups was hatched. 23 May 2013
Disgraced IRS Chiefs: IRS Needs More Money In their attempts to shift blame and evade clear answers to questions about the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups, disgraced former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman and disgraced former Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller both said that what the IRS really needs are more people and money to function properly. 23 May 2013
Democrats Use McCain Comments to Paint GOP as Obstructionist Senate Democrats are looking to paint a recent Republican fracas between Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) as further evidence of an obstructionist GOP whose recalcitrance is bogging down budget negotiations. 23 May 2013
Bernanke Comments, Sluggish China Data Ignite Stock Sell Off U.S. stocks were down nearly 1% in early trading as the Nikkei experienced its largest drop in two years, closing 225 down, with news that Chinese factory figures shrank for the first time in seven months. Also worrying were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments indicating that the days of printing nearly-free money—known as quantitative easing—may soon be scaled back. 23 May 2013
Labor Force Participation Rate Higher For Foreign-Born Workers than Native-Born On Wednesday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate for the 25 million foreign-born persons in the U.S. labor force dropped one percent from 9.1% in 2011 to 8.1% in 2012. 22 May 2013
Milbank: Reporter Snooping Actions 'Shatter the President's Credibility' “If Obama really is ‘a fierce defender of the First Amendment,’ as his spokesman would have it, he will move quickly to fix this,” wrote Milbank. “Otherwise, Obama is establishing an ominous precedent for future leaders whose fondness for the First Amendment may not be so fierce.” 22 May 2013
Chuck Todd: Obama Wants to 'Criminalize Journalism' Todd said individuals he now talks to are “quite uncomfortable having conversations on the phone. Maybe that’s the intent.” The NBC reporter added: “you can't look at this and see it as anything other than an attempt to basically scare anybody from ever leaking anything ever again.” 22 May 2013
Report: 'Rogue' IRS Agent Claim Unraveling An investigation by Cincinnati Fox 19 reporter Ben Swann finds that Obama Administration claims that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting of conservative groups was the work of two “rogue” low-level employees in Cincinnati, Ohio, strain credulity and are "falling apart." 22 May 2013
Federal Worker Regulations Make Firing IRS Agents Difficult The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents who politically targeted conservative and tea party groups may be able to appeal and significantly delay any attempts to fire them due to federal worker regulations. 22 May 2013
Top Dem: 'There Will Be Hell To Pay' If IRS Keeps Stonewalling Outrage was bipartisan. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) said that if witnesses today are not more forthcoming and stonewall the committee, “it will lead to a special prosecutor” in order “to get to the bottom of this” and “there will be hell to pay if that’s the route we go done.” 22 May 2013
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