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Obama names budget official Werfel as acting IRS head
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama named top White House budget office aide Daniel Werfel to be acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, the White House said on Thursday. Obama ousted acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller late on...Tags: U.S. Congress, Washington, DC, Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama, Budget Control Act of 2011
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AP source: Obama to appoint senior budget official Daniel Werfel as acting IRS commissioner
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will appoint senior White House budget officer Daniel Werfel to be acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, a White House official says. Werfel will replace Steven Miller, ousted Wednesday amid...Tags: Washington, DC, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Tea Party Movement, Internal Revenue Service
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White House announces new IRS leadership
WASHINGTON – Continuing to move quickly to try to put the IRS controversy behind him, President Obama named a new acting commissioner Thursday to replace the one he ousted the day before. Daniel Werfel, current controller of the Office of...
Tags: John Boehner, Barack Obama, Tea Party Movement, Media Industry, Internal Revenue Service
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Tax chief forced out in IRS scandal
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's top tax official was fired on Wednesday as President Barack Obama sought to stem a rising tide of criticism over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny. With three...Tags: U.S. Congress, Washington, DC, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Jim Jordan, Republican Party
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Ouster of IRS official isn't ending investigations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the agency's acting commissioner. Three congressional committees are investigating and the FBI...Tags: U.S. Congress, Washington, DC, Mitch McConnell, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
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Obama ousts IRS chief over inquiry
WASHINGTON — President Obama forced out the head of the IRS on Wednesday, seeking to restore the public's faith in the tax agency while asserting a measure of control over a rapidly growing political problem. Making a hastily scheduled statement...
Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. Congress, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Interior Policy, Darrell E Issa
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Casey, Toomey on Senate committee that will investigate IRS next week
Call Washington BureauPennsylvania's two U.S. senators sit on the powerful tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, which will begin its investigation of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups at a hearing on Tuesday. Republicans and Democrats are...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), Patrick J. Toomey, Jim Gerlach, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
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Treasury makes first move to buy time under debt ceiling
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury on Wednesday announced the first of a potential series of emergency cash measures to allow the government to keep paying the nation's bills once a temporary suspension of the debt ceiling lapses this weekend. To...Tags: U.S. Congress, Government Debt, Barack Obama, Fannie Mae, Politics
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Asleep at the wheel
WASHINGTON — President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency. Late Monday came the breathtaking news of a full-frontal assault on the First Amendment by his administration: word that the Justice Department had gone on a...Tags: U.S. Congress, Washington, DC, Fox News Channel (tv network), The Associated Press, Barack Obama
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Attorney general orders criminal review of IRS
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department began a criminal investigation Tuesday into overzealous scrutiny by the IRS of applications for tax exemptions by conservative groups, an improper targeting that an inspector general's report blamed on a...
Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. Congress, Interior Policy, Barack Obama, Career and Workplace
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Poll: The first firing of the IRS 'tea party' scandal
The scandal over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status for special review claimed its first scalp Wednesday, when Treasury Secretary Jack Lew demanded and received the resignation of the agency's...
Tags: USA Today, Tea Party Movement, Benghazi, Internal Revenue Service, Politics
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Obama: Acting IRS commissioner has resigned over scandal
The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service was fired on Wednesday as President Barack Obama sought to stem a rising tide of criticism over the agency's targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny. Seeking to regain the...Tags: U.S. Congress, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner
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