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» Lawmakers demand answers from Secret Service chief
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson will be on the hot seat Tuesday morning after lawmakers rejected her request that the hearing be held in a closed, classified forum.
» IRS agents’ failure to track down delinquent taxpayers cost billions in 2012
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration or TIGTA, conducted the review and found that agents were “not always completely researching cases before closing them as uncollectible.”
» Noemie Emery: Back to the past
President Obama is going back not only to war, but a bigger and uglier war than the one that Bush had started, and worse than Iraq at its depth.
» New trial will shine light on 2008 bailout of insurance giant AIG
Mark Calabria, the director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, said, “I suspect the suspicion that AIG was assisted to help its counter-parties will be reinforced. I suspect we will also learn that the regulators were making — it all up as they went along.”
» Holder announces program on Chicago crime
Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder Monday announced a new federal program to target high-crime cities, including Chicago, Ill., where shootings and other violent crime have skyrocketed.
» Editorial: How far can Obama pass the buck?
Someone had his eye off the ball. It was probably not some “they,” but rather the guy with the pen and the phone.
» Supreme Court stops start of Ohio early voting
The Supreme Court handed Ohio Republicans an early election victory Monday when it halted the state’s early voting program hours before it was to begin.
» Watchdog: Energy group claims enviros suing more often, not less, despite 2011 deal
Two environmental nonprofits are launching more Endangered Species Act lawsuits now than they did before signing a 2011 agreement with the federal government to file fewer such actions, according to a study made public Monday by an energy industry advocacy group.
» Byron York: Ugly Senate fight could await Obama’s attorney general nominee
The White House claims there is ample precedent for a lame-duck nomination. In fact, it’s more complicated than that.
» Watchdog: One-third of ‘disadvantaged’ contracting dollars going to firms that are no longer disadvantaged
Nearly one in three dollars that the federal government uses to meet its quota for buying from “disadvantaged” businesses didn’t actually go to such firms, usually instead going to ones that were once in the training-wheels program, but have since outgrown it.
