Elijah Cummings

Elijah Cummings

• IRS worker: No political bias against tea party

  An Internal Revenue Service manager and self-described conservative Republican said the close scrutiny of tea party groups' tax forms originated in ... 

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  IRS official contradicts claims about reviews

  Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington scrutinized the very first application from a tea party group seeking tax-exempt status — and dozens ... 

• IRS manager: White House not involved in reviews

  A self-described conservative Republican who is a manager in the Internal Revenue Service office that targeted tea party groups told investigators ... 

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  IRS official apologizes for lavish $4M conference

  An Internal Revenue Service official whose division staged a lavish $4.1 million training conference and who starred as Mr. Spock in a "Star Trek" ... 

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  House panel: Report finds $50M for IRS conferences

  A government watchdog has found that the Internal Revenue Service spent about $50 million to hold at least 220 conferences for employees between 2010 ... 

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  House chairman subpoenas documents on Benghazi

  The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued subpoenas on Tuesday for State Department documents related to the widely ... 

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  Obama slams GOP focus on Benghazi as politics

  House Republicans pushed ahead Monday with their investigation of the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year as ... 

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  Democrats: No scandal in Benghazi deaths

  Politicians love few things better than a scandal to trip up their opponents, and Republicans hope last year's fatal attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya ... 

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  Former US official describes Libya attack

  A former top diplomat in Libya on Wednesday delivered a riveting minute-by-minute account of the chaotic events during the deadly assault on the U.S. 

• Park Service chief defends handling of budget cuts

  Facing withering criticism from House Republicans, the director of the National Park Service Tuesday rejected suggestions the agency purposely hyped ... 

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  GOP lawmakers blast Labor secretary nominee

  In a blistering report, Republican lawmakers sharply criticized Labor secretary nominee Thomas Perez over what they said was a questionable deal he ... 

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  GOP pillories administration's sequester prep

  House Republicans are accusing the Obama administration of poorly preparing for the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts while at the same time ... 

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  2 NFL seasons since agreement, still no HGH tests

  Baltimore Ravens defensive end Arthur Jones is among those NFL players who want the league and the union to finally agree on a way to do blood testing ... 

• MLB to expand blood testing for HGH

  Major League Baseball will test for human growth hormone throughout the regular season and increase efforts to detect abnormal levels of testosterone, ... 

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  US banks to pay $8.5B in mortgage settlement

  Hundreds of thousands of Americans stand to benefit from the latest mortgage-abuse settlement, but consumer advocates say U.S. banks may be getting ... 

• 10 banks agree to pay $8.5B for foreclosure abuse

  Ten major banks agreed Monday to pay $8.5 billion to settle federal complaints that they wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners who should have been ...