For the third time in a week, officials from the IRS appeared before Congress to apologize for/not offer many new details on how and why the agency improperly targeted conservative groups for scrutiny — though one witness indicated others may have received the same treatment.
Acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller is testifying in front of a House committee this morning. It's one of the Congress' first opportunities to grill the agency on its use of politically loaded differentiation in assessing applicants' non-profit status.
By our count, nearly half of the standing committees of the House of Representatives are looking at some aspect of the Obama administration that offers at least some whiff of political opportunity. You can't tell the players without our handy scorecard.
The Associated Press and CNN have both called the special election for South Carolina's first congressional district for Mark Sanford, the once-disgraced former governor who's proven that even redemption has partisan leanings.
Something strange and extraordinary happened to Mark "The Comeback Kid" Sanford over the past couple of weeks: He made a comeback — and a serious one at that.
This week's discussion of the Senate vote on gun reforms is like sportscasters talking about going for it on a fourth down. If the bill fails: game over. If it passes, proponents of reform still face the daunting opposition of a ferociously conservative House.
Less than two hours after the polls closed Tuesday night, the call came in: "Disgraced former governor" Mark Sanford had secured a primary victory and set up a May 7 special election against Stephen Colbert's sister. Boy, has this man come a long way since that time he went "hiking on the Appalachian Trail."
As expected, Stephen Colbert's older sister Elizabeth won the Democratic nomination in the race for South Carolina's first congressional seat. She's now darn close to being the first Colbert in Congress.
Here we have a government agency imploring Congress to let it save money by curtailing service, and the House GOP on Wednesday afternoon rejected the idea. In nearly any other context, that would be inexplicable. But: mail!
Just three days after his husband Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes relaunched The New Republic, 26-year-old investor and activist Sean Eldridge filed papers to run for a seat in the House.
The House of Representatives has passed a $9.7 billion measure to help pay for Sandy flood insurance claims today. The measure obviously isn't as massive as the $51 billion bill that's scheduled for a vote on January 15, but it still matters. Here's why:
Paul Krugman on the post-cliff trouble, Hendrik Hertzberg on the House, Amy Butte on the stock market's opacity, Doyle McManus on drones, and Nathan Brown on Morsi.
Yesterday, the House of Representatives picked the leaders of 19 committees for the upcoming 113th Congress yesterday and every one of them is a white male.
Have you seen this man?
Arizona Rep. Ben Quayle has gone public with a complaint that an opponent's campaign mailer saying he "goes both ways" is trying to suggest he's bisexual: Mr. Quayle, meet the Streisand Effect.
Republicans held a press conference on Wednesday to protest the Obama administration's requirement that private insurers cover birth control, which goes into effect today, and Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania wins the award for most sensational rhetoric.
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter quit his job Friday, though he was already planning to retire at the end of his term after a humiliating few months during which few people paid attention to his run for president and he failed to make the ballot in his own state of Michigan.
The House of Representatives passed Rep. Paul Ryan's controversial budget proposal Thursday, voting along party lines (minus ten Republicans who defected), and though this thing won't see the light of day as a law, expect a lot about it in the coming months.
"Startup" was the word of the day on Capitol Hill, as the House of Representatives passed the JOBS Act with practically no resistance.
In a case perfectly timed for the legislative zeitgeist (as Congress just passed two versions of a bill to block insider trading) the head of the House Financial Services Committee faces an ethics probe over allegations of... wait for it... insider trading!
Now that the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (aka STOCK) Act has been passed by both the U.S. House and Senate.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that would ban insider trading by lawmakers and those in the White House (as requested by President Barack Obama), and now it'll go to the House of Representatives, which is reportedly "wasting no time" in addressing it.
Christmas passed without a fallen snowflake at Go Daddy's Arizona headquarters, as the former supporter of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) watched tens of thousands of customers flee its business.
As anybody who's visited the site will admit, the power of the Reddit crowd is impressive if it's on your side, but you don't want to get on Reddit's bad side. Just ask the bean counters at Go Daddy.
House Republicans have reversed course and agreed to pass the payroll tax cut extension for two more months under pressure from the Senate and the White House, reports National Journal, citing "Republican and Democratic sources."
After quietly scheduling a last minute markup hearing, the House Judiciary Committee quietly but definitively put the Stop Online Piracy Bill (SOPA) on hold until "early next year."
After an epically long, sometimes heated and certainly disconcerting hearing on Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee reconvened at 10 a.m. Friday morning to finish marking up the latest draft of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Members of the House Judiciary Committee have been scratching their heads all morning -- some of them with iPhones in hand -- trying to figure out exactly how far-reaching the potential for censorship in the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is as they markup the bill.
The same group of the world's largest technology companies, including Facebook and Google, that aggressively opposed the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are now throwing their weight behind the recently released and amicably named alternative: OPEN.
As lawmakers prepare to release the full details of an alternative to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Internet law expert Jonathan Zittrain remains skeptical that Congress's ability to produce a reasonable anti-piracy plan.
With Massachusetts' Barney Frank announcing he won't run for reelection to Congress next year, America will soon lose one of its few elected officials both willing and able to say rude (and often funny) things on camera.
Having invited only one of six witness voicing opposition to the bill, the House Judiciary Committee avoided digging into the dangerous details of internet censorship during and focused on piracy during its hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Wednesday, November 16 is the first ever American Censorship Day in honor of the first House hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and most of the internet seems determined not to repeat the ironic holiday next year.
The feed hands out GOP representatives' Twitter handles
He can get the bill through the House only if he makes it impossible to pass in the Senate
Four days until debt deadline and the Senate needs at least three days to pass a bill
The only bill that can pass the House will be so conservative it'll scare off some Republican senators
Michele's husband keeps bringing bad press--this time, for campaign reimbursements
The House votes on his debt plan Thursday but the Senate promises to reject it
Says foreign affairs bill would be "debilitating" to her diplomatic efforts
Their fear of helping Obama is weighing against their fear of economic catastrophe
Democrats are hoping GOP disunity will help them pass their own debt ceiling plan
A pattern of strange behavior going back to 1976
Pundits puzzle over what, exactly, either of them were trying to accomplish in their speeches
The GOP and Obama are both trying to sell a deal to their parties
Eight freshmen House members gathered last night to talk about the debt limit
Tea Partiers declare a victory for personal liberty
Pretty much everyone agrees: crisis. But the details are interesting
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