IRS Deputy Inspector General Timothy Camus testified that his office recovered an additional 424 recovery tapes used to back-up IRS e-mails “that had never been disclosed” in testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday. “Two weeks ago,
Rep. Jim Jordan is ripping the DHS secretary for skipping a hearing on the department’s processing of illegal immigrants.
The members of the new House Freedom Caucus are sending a message to senators: They ought to vote on a House-passed DHS funding bill.
A new caucus aimed at pushing “an agenda of limited, constitutional government” is up-and-running, launched by nine conservative members of the House of Representatives. “The House Freedom Caucus gives a voice to countless Americans who feel that Washington does not represent them,” the group’s mission statement reads.
House conservatives are calling on their counterparts in the Senate to finish the job of defunding President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty and pushing back against the administration’s policies. While the legislation has passed the House, the White House is already threatening to veto the bill and few expect that the effort has the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster in the Senate.
Erick Erickson at RedState says that in the conservative revolt against John Boehner, Rep. Jim Jordan is seen as a viable alternative who could actually win an election for Speaker of the House.
Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber repeatedly refused to answer how much he was paid for his lectures on Obamacare before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday. Representative Jim Jordan repeatedly asked Gruber how much he was paid, to which he was
1:26 pm – Issa’s Closing Statement — Charlie Spiering In his closing statement, Chairman Issa (R-CA) observed that additional travel restrictions and quarantines would be difficult to enforce. “It’s a great sound bite,” he admitted, but explained that “the practical
Speaker John Boehner is up for reelection to his post next year, and it seems that he could have a tough time getting the votes he needs to win. The conservative wing of the House is not happy with him,
The nefarious Homework-Eating Dog lunged from the shadows and gobbled up the email accounts of five more employees involved in the Tax Exempt Organizations voter-suppression scandal, including two of the famed “low level employees from the Cincinnati office,” according to
On Wednesday, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen was once again questioned by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Koskinen was brought before the committee this time to explain newly released emails from April 2013 which show Lois Lerner had a
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testifed before a subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today. During one exchange with Rep. Jim Jordan, Koskinen seemed to find nothing at all suspicious about Lois Lerner’s interest in whether IRS instant
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released emails Wednesday from disgraced former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner wherein she advised her colleagues that “We need to be cautious about what we say in emails”
Following the dramatic upset of Majority Leader Eric Cantor in his primary election, “the mood among the leadership of our conference was almost as if a medical accident had occurred,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said in an interview with Breitbart
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) is leading the race for House Whip, the third-ranking position in House leadership, and he’s running on his conservative bonafides. The chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the Republicans’ 170-member strong conservative caucus, Scalise is pitching
The House Oversight Committee approved contempt charges on a 21 to 12 party line vote Thursday against former IRS official Lois Lerner, moving the contempt resolution to the full House. The Hill reported: Republicans have ruled that Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment
The Office of Inspector General released a white paper in January, advocating for the United States Post Office to offer alternative financial services (AFS) such as bill payment, check cashing, and small-dollar loans. The timing of the paper’s release suggests
Speaker John Boehner will bring a clean debt ceiling bill to the floor Wednesday, marking the end of an era in which House Republicans sought spending cuts and reforms in equal or greater amount to the increase in the debt
Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law & Justice, said it was “very well possible” that the IRS’s targeting and harassment of conservatives and Tea Party groups impacted the 2012 presidential election between President Barack Obama and
The founder of a nonprofit group that focuses on election integrity said that she – and her family businesses – were targeted by the IRS and the federal government because of her political beliefs. Testifying before a House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) requested Tuesday that Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen withdraw a proposed regulation that they say stifles political speech by nonprofit organizations.
Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the Economic Growth Subcommittee, sent a harsh letter to Attorney General Holder Wednesday accusing the Department of Justice of abusing
Two top Obamacare officials, including the person who has been called one of the law’s architects, have refused to testify before Congress next week. During a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said
During a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the malfunctioning Obamacare website on Wednesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) blasted the administration’s top technology officials with “fancy titles” for not knowing who the ultimate person in charge was and
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, served Treasury Secretary Jack Lew with another subpoena relating to the IRS scandal in which the organization targeted Tea Party organizations, the committee announced on Friday.
Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Fox News Sunday’s with Chris Wallace…
Emails released Wednesday revealed that Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS’ top ObamaCare official, advised White House executive staff on legal challenges from groups claiming the HHS contraception mandate violated their religious freedom. Redactions in the emails indicate they contained confidential
During today’s congressional hearing on Benghazi, Rep. Jim Jordan asked Admiral Mullen about his decision to give Hillary Clinton’s Chief of Staff at State, Cheryl Mills, a heads up that one of the people who had been called to testify
At a House Government and Oversight Reform Committee hearing on the Benghazi Accountability Review Board (ARB) on Thursday, Admiral Mike Mullen, who was one of the heads of the ARB, admitted that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton actually saw a
On Tuesday, Darrell Issa, the Chairman of the Oversight and Reform Committee and Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan sent a strongly worded letter to acting IRS commissioner Daniel Werfel, threatening to compel the slow-to-respond IRS to cooperate with their congressional inquiry.
Amid catcalls from the Regime that they are engaging in a “witchhunt” into “phony scandals”, undeterred House Oversight and Government Reform Committee leaders are seeking a new investigation of allegations of political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service. The targeting
On Tuesday, William W. Taylor III, attorney for Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the Tea Party targeting scandal who invoked her Fifth amendment rights before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on May 22, set
House Oversight Committee members Chairman Darrell Issa, (R-CA), James Lankford (R-OK), and Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking for further information about Obamacare implementation in regards to the recent “small business mandates.” These
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
Congressman Jim Jordan questioning former IRS Chief Douglas Shulman about his White House visits at the same time his agency was targeting conservatives…
In response to Cummings Fails to Ask Shulman If He Is a Democrat: Democrats are actually asking the witnesses tough questions in today’s Oversight and Reform hearing, instead of running interference for them (like they’ve done in past scandals like
On Wednesday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s hearing on the widening Internal Revenue Service (IRS) conservative targeting scandal started with a bipartisan clash of statements blasting the IRS for its unwillingness to be forthcoming in congressional testimony thus
House members will vote Tuesday night on the Senate’s fiscal cliff bill. Republicans met in two conference meetings to discuss the bill. At the end of the first meeting, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) came out against the Senate
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy has agreed to debrief the conservative Republican Study Committee on Wednesday about his role in drafting Speaker John Boehner’s conservative purge secret scorecard criteria list, a congressman close to the situation told Breitbart News Tuesday
UPDATE II: Hensarling spokeswoman Sarah Rozier told Breitbart News he isn’t planning a Speaker run either. “The only leadership position Congressman Hensarling plans to hold in the 113th Congress is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee,” Rozier said in
