Articles Tagged 'Tea Party'

Obama DOJ Holdovers Refuse To Prosecute Lerner
Apparently, there are no plans to charge former IRS official Lois Lerner over her role in the Tea Party targeting scandal, the Justice Department said…
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IRS finally agrees to clear last tea party case
The IRS has finally agreed to a process for deciding on the last remaining nonprofit application that was snared in the Obama administration’s tea party…
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7,000 IRS documents may detail Obama-era targeting of tea party groups
There are 7,000 previously unacknowledged IRS documents that could contain information about the targeting of tea party groups, the agency has admitted in a court…
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Dem senator: I may face 2018 primary from Tea Party-esque progressives
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) on Thursday compared a faction of Democrats calling for their party to become increasingly progressive to the Tea Party movement that…
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There’s A Push For The GOP To Postpone House Speaker Election
A conservative group affiliated with the tea party movement is urging congressional Republicans to postpone their planned election for speaker of the House so there…
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Judge orders IRS to clear tea party application backlog within month
A federal judge has ordered the IRS to finally clean up the tea party targeting mess, giving the tax agency less than a month to…
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Here we go again: IRS subjects tea party groups to new round of scrutiny, publicizes tax return data
The IRS‘ battle against holdout tea party groups is heating up again, after the tax agency promised it would begin processing their long-delayed applications, but…
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IRS boss Koskinen takes heat at impeachment hearing for faulty testimony
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen faced tough questioning Wednesday from Republicans at his Capitol Hill impeachment hearing, where he admitted “failings” in responding to congressional probes…
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IRS refuses to abandon targeting criteria used against tea party, conservative groups
The IRS is refusing to recant the targeting criteria it used to single out tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny, according to court filings made…
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IRS vows to finally begin processing applications of targeted tea party groups
The IRS is still holding up three tea party groups’ applications, Commissioner John Koskinen admitted in a letter to Congress last week — but he…
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