Senate Finance Committee

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  IRS scandals threaten funding for PPACA

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  June 17, 2013

  Mounting scandals at the IRS are jeopardizing critical funding for the agency as it gears up to play a big role in PPACA.

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  “Let me be that I am…”

  By Denis Storey  |  June 11, 2013

  Don’t look now, but our friends in Congress aren’t done messing with your livelihood just yet.

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  Much ado about taxes

  By Denis Storey  |  June 10, 2013

  Tax reform’s been on the lips of politicians for years now. Yet we’re still just talking about it despite this this being one of the rare issues both parties can still agree on.

• Pennsylvanis pension debate heats up

  By Peter Jackson  |  May 31, 2013

  Pension experts, an asset manager, and a national clearinghouse for state governments fielded questions Wednesday from a legislative panel scrutinizing Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's pension-overhaul plan, providing an abundance of information but no clear direction on how to proceed barely a month before the Legislature is expected to take its...

• New Hampshire senators prep for Medicaid fight

  By Norma Love  |  May 29, 2013

  New Hampshire senators set the stage Tuesday for a fight with the House and governor over a key measure in President Barack Obama's health care law — expanding coverage to the state's poorest uninsured adults next year.

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  IRS official to take the 5th at House hearing

  By Alan Fram and Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 21, 2013

  A key figure in the IRS's targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination and decline to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

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  More Obama aides knew of IRS audit

  By Charles Babington, Julie Pace  |  May 20, 2013

  The president's chief of staff and others in the administration did not tell him the IRS was targeting conservative groups, leaving him to learn about it on news reports.

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  Obama picks budget official to run IRS

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 17, 2013

  President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the same day another top official announced plans to leave the agency amid the controversy over agents targeting tea party groups.

• IRS chief’s ouster isn’t ending investigations

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 16, 2013

  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.

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  Obama fires IRS commissioner

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 16, 2013

  President Obama ousted the acting commissioner of the IRS late Wednesday amid an outcry over the improper targeting of tea party groups.