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  Tea party storm confined to IRS, for now

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 23, 2013

  Three days of congressional hearings about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups have lawmakers looking for ways to widen an investigation that has so far been largely contained within the tax collection agency.

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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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  Working Families Flexibility Act is a win-win

  By Allen Greenberg  |  May 21, 2013

  The House passed legislation this month amending the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 by giving all private-sector employees the same flexibility government employees have enjoyed for the past three decades.

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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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  The IRS and its tea party tempest

  By Calvin Woodward  |  May 20, 2013

  The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It's the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck.

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  Obama takes Cabinet secretaries out to play golf

  By The Associated Press  |  May 20, 2013

  President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf — in the rain.

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  Ousted IRS chief regrets treatment of tea party

  By Alan Fram, Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 17, 2013

  A top House Republican charges that the IRS's improper use of tougher scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status seems part of a broader pattern of intimidation and cover-ups by the Obama administration.

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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.

• White House responds to repeal vote with new PPACA campaign

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  May 16, 2013

  The White House on Thursday launched a new campaign promoting PPACA and urging Americans to join supporters.

• 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.