Articles Tagged 'Tea Party'

Carney: White House aides insulated Obama from IRS scandal

by Susan Crabtree-The Washington Times  |  published on May 21, 2013

The White House admitted Monday that more officials — including top aides — knew about IRS abuses in targeting conservative groups than the administration had previously acknowledged.
White House aides first learned of a draft report detailing the IRS abuses in late April, but chose to insulate President Obama by not informing him until it exploded in the press, the…

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Virginia GOP launches tea party ticket

by JONATHAN MARTIN | Politico  |  published on May 19, 2013

RICHMOND, Va. – Rejuvenated by a Democratic scandal in Washington and a tea party conservative atop their ticket, Virginia Republicans Saturday nominated a trio of statewide candidates whose fate will be closely watched as an indicator of the health of the national GOP.
Crusading state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, facing no intra-party opposition, accepted the Republican gubernatorial nomination at the…

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White House aide: ‘Nothing that suggests’ IRS official at center of scandal ‘did anything wrong’

by Ben Wolfgang-The Washington Times
Published on May 19, 2013

The White House is standing behind the woman who led the Internal Revenue Service’s tax-exempt division while it targeted conservative groups — the same official…

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Rep. Dave Camp accuses White House of ‘cover-up’ in IRS scandal

by Sean Lengell-The Washington Times  |  published on May 18, 2013

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday said the IRS scandal shows a “culture of cover-ups” and “political intimidation” within the Obama administration.
Rep. Dave Camp, Michigan Republican, while speaking at a hearing his panel held regarding the IRS’s improper targeting of tea party and other conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, suggested the White House…

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Has IRS Probe Re-Energized the Tea Party?

by Emma Dumain, Roll Call  |  published on May 17, 2013

The tea party movement, after heating up to a roaring boil in the 2010 election cycle, diminished to a simmer over the past few years.
Some of the movement’s allies who helped Republicans retake the House in 2010 were defeated two years later, President Barack Obama was re-elected by a wide margin to serve a second term in the White…

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IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Obamacare Office

by John Parkinson & Steven Portnoy, ABCNEWS.com
Published on May 17, 2013

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…

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In wake of scandal, Obama ousts IRS chief — who was planning to resign anyway

by FoxNews.com
Published on May 16, 2013

President Obama announced Wednesday that acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller would resign in the wake of the agency scandal in which conservative groups were targeted…

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IRS audit found political bias against conservatives; groups gave up after application delay

by Sean Lengell-The Washington Times  |  published on May 15, 2013

The IRS singled out tea party and other conservative groups for “burdensome” scrutiny because of their politically charged names and delayed approving some applications for so long that the groups simply gave up, according to an official government audit, released Tuesday, that has the agency reeling.
Members of Congress said the latest revelations suggest that Internal Revenue Service officials withheld…

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NAACP’s Julian Bond: It’s OK for IRS to target ‘racist’ tea party

by Cheryl K. Chumley-The Washington Times
Published on May 15, 2013

Julian Bond, with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said during a Tuesday interview on MSNBC that it’s only right and just…

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Top IRS official didn’t reveal tea party targeting

by STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Associated Press
Published on May 14, 2013

WASHINGTON — Congress was not told tea party groups were being inappropriately targeted by the Internal Revenue Service, even after acting agency Chief Steven Miller…

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