Stephen Ohlemacher

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The IRS says Lois Lerner, the official at the center of the agency's tea party scandal, is retiring. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lois Lerner, IRS official at heart of Tea Party scandal, retires

Stephen Ohlemacher · September 23, 2013 4:00 am

John Boehner: No debt limit increase without cuts

Stephen Ohlemacher · September 19, 2013 12:04 pm

IRS targeted tea party after granting tax status

Stephen Ohlemacher · September 18, 2013 6:57 pm

House to vote on budget bill defunding health law

Stephen Ohlemacher · September 18, 2013 2:36 pm

Report: Budget cuts hurt tax collections by IRS

Stephen Ohlemacher · September 18, 2013 3:02 am

IRS collections from enforcement actions drop

Stephen Ohlemacher · September 17, 2013 6:24 pm

FILE - This Jan. 11, 2013 file photo shows the Social Security Administration's main campus in Woodlawn, Md. Congressional investigators say Social Security has made more than $1 billion in improper disability payments to people who had jobs when they were supposed to be unable to work. In a report issued Friday, the Government Accountability Office estimated that 36,000 workers got improper payments from December 2010 to January 2013. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Investigators: 36k got improper disability pay

Stephen Ohlemacher · September 14, 2013 12:34 am

FILE - This May 17, 2013 file photo shows Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House passed a bill Thursday that would ban new subsidies to help people buy health insurance until the Obama administration enacts a new verification system to ensure they only go to those who are eligible. Democrats say the bill, which has no chance in the Democrat-controlled Senate, would unnecessarily delay subsidies slated to start next year. Black, the main sponsor of the bill said: âThis bill would protect American taxpayers from the staggering amount of fraud and abuse in Obamacare exchanges,â (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

House passes bill to delay health care subsidies

Stephen Ohlemacher · September 12, 2013 5:19 pm

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, walks to join GOP House members for a caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. Some conservative Republicans want to shut down the government if that's what it takes to block the "Obamacare" health program. The fiscal year ends Sept. 30, and government agencies will start shutting down if some type of budget bill isn't enacted by then and Boehner says he wants no government shutdown or default on the debt. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Boehner skeptical of Syrian offer on weapons

Stephen Ohlemacher · September 10, 2013 2:44 pm

In this photo taken March 10, 2011, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to Congress, becomes emotional as he testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee on the extent of the radicalization of American Muslims on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democratic leaders have generally supported President Barack Obama's stance on Egypt. But Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, Ellison said, "I would cut off aid but engage in intense diplomacy in Egypt and in the region to try to say, look, we will restore aid when you stop the bloodshed in the street and set up a path towards democracy that you were on before." He said, "In my mind, there's no way to say that this was not a coup. It is. We should say so. And then follow our own law, which says we cannot fund the coup leaders." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Congress split on cutting off aid to Egypt

Stephen Ohlemacher · August 19, 2013 4:21 am

Rising tax revenue eases pressure for budget cuts

Stephen Ohlemacher · August 6, 2013 7:30 pm

FILE IN this July 17, 2013 file photo, acting Internal Revenue Service (IRS) head Daniel Werfel testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. A GOP lawmaker accused the IRS of obstructing congressional investigations into the agency's targeting of tea party groups, a charge the head of the IRS denied. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said the IRS has been slow to produce documents that are so thoroughly blacked out they are useless to investigators. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Rep. Issa accuses IRS of obstructing investigation

Stephen Ohlemacher · August 2, 2013 7:22 pm