Tony Lee

Faris Fink, the IRS official at the center of the agency’s scandal involving lavish conferences paid with taxpayer funds, gave what seemed like conflicting statements to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about when he knew about the conference’s

On Thursday, the IRS official at the center of the agency’s scandal involving a lavish 2010 conference at Disneyland that cost taxpayers $4.1 million conceded the price may have been $5 million.  Testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform

On Thursday, the IRS official at the center of the agency’s scandal involving a lavish 2010 conference at Disneyland that cost taxpayers $4.1 million said he did not think the conference was wrong. Testifying before the House Oversight and Government

Acting IRS commissioner Danny Werfel told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday that he would encourage Lois Lerner to testify before the Committee.  Lerner, the head of the tax-exempt division who has been placed on paid administrative

Testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday, the IRS Commissioner responsible for allowing the agency to spend $4.1 million on a lavish 2010 conference at Disneyland said it was not the best use of taxpayer funds

Attorney General Eric Holder missed a deadline on Wednesday to explain his May 15 testimony before Congress in which he may have perjured himself. Holder was testifying then about his role in obtaining phone records from AP reporters. Republicans on

The Heritage Foundation released a compelling video profiling a small rural Virginia business owner whose company would be threatened if Congress passes an online sales tax bill.  Catesby Jones, the owner of the Peace Frogs business that sells everything from

Owners of various local gun stores sent members of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus a letter Wednesday asking them to support the online Internet sales tax bill pending before Congress, arguing that without it they may go out of business because

A federal judge ordered Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to suspend the so-called “Under-12” rule and allow 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan onto an adult transplant list in a Wednesday ruling. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Baylson made the ruling

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said the the Supreme Court’s ruling to allow police to take DNA samples from those arrested for serious offenses just “invites abuse” from government.  Cruz made his remarks on Mark Levin’s show on Tuesday and emphasized

The Tea Party Patriots will organize a mass “Audit the IRS Rally” on June 19th in Washington, D.C. with local and national Tea Party groups to protest the IRS’s targeting of conservative organizations.   Jenny Beth Martin, the co-founder of

A founder of a South Carolina Tea Party whose group was targeted by the IRS told representatives on the House Ways and Means Committee that she was “outraged” Democrats were implying taxpayers were subsidizing her organization.  In testimony before the

On Tuesday, John Eastman, the Chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, tore into Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee defending the IRS for targeting conservative organizations like his.  In response to criticism of his organization, Eastman said

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) believes the IRS should be abolished after the institution of a simpler flat tax.  He said the tax code invites agents to abuse and use the machinery of government to target political enemies and said doing

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) not only blamed the victims of the IRS’s targeting on Tuesday–he also implied the IRS would have been justified targeting conservative and Tea Party groups if the agency did so based on what the groups stood

Kevin Kookogey, the founder and president of Linchpins of Liberty, said the IRS asked his group to submit the names of the young people his group mentors to the agency to get tax-exempt status.  He said the IRS asked him

On Tuesday, John C. Eastman, the National Organization for Marriage’s Chairman of the Board, accused the IRS of illegally leaking information about the organization’s donors to liberal organizations for political purposes.  In testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday, he

On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused the Justice Department (DOJ) of targeting reporters because they were critical of the Obama administration. According to The Hill, Cruz’s assertion is “the first time a lawmaker has suggested publicly that the White House is

J. Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General, told a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Monday that there is an ongoing audit of  bonuses IRS employees have received, and that it should be completed sometime in the fall.   “We have an