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John McCain Is the Latest Senior Senator to Have Had Enough of Junior Ted Cruz - Yahoo! News

CORALVILLE COURIER EDITOR'S NOTE: John McCain represents what is wrong with Washington, Ted Cruz represents a problem solving solution.

For two days John McCain and Ted Cruz have been fighting on the Senate floor over the rules for negotiating a budget, but, like so many fights, it's also about so much more. Cruz is being annoying about the budget, but worse, he just doesn't get the Senate. 

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Congress' Option on IRS: Testify or Lose Your Job

Lois Lerner, the IRS official who headed the division that targeted Tea Party and other conservative groups for special tax scrutiny, invoked her Fifth Amendment right to refuse questions before Congress on Wednesday.

But that doesn't mean that she won't be forced to answer questions. In fact, it's relatively easy for Congress to force her to testify.

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An embattled IRS official takes the 5th: Damning evidence of guilt? - The Week

Lois Lerner, a high-ranking IRS official, invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions in an appearance Wednesday before a House committee investigating the tax agency's improper targeting of conservatives. IRS leaders and an inspector general have said there is no evidence anyone broke any laws in the case, in which IRS employees singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status between 2010 and 2012. Conservatives disagree. Is Lerner's apparent concern that she might incriminate herself an admission of guilt, and proof that laws were in fact broken?

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Was Another Major Reporter Targeted by the DOJ? Hear What a CBS Journalist Revealed About Her Computer | TheBlaze.com

Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson, who has been ferociously investigating Benghazi and Fast and Furious, says her personal and work computers have been compromised and the matter is currently under investigation.

“I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months but I’m not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I’ve been patient and methodical about this matter,” Attkisson told Politico on Tuesday.

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Here are the 5 Most Interesting Moments from Tuesday’s Hearing on the IRS Scandal | Video | TheBlaze.com

The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday held a hearing on the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups, the second hearing of its kind on the explosive scandal that has rocked the Obama White House.

Witnesses at the four-hour hearing included former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, who headed the agency during the period when it “aggressively” discriminated against conservative groups, Treasury Department Inspector General J. Russell George, and ousted IRS interim chief Steven Miller.

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Report: More Benghazi Whistleblowers to Reveal ‘Devastating’ Details About Attack, Including WHY Chris Stevens Was in Libya | Video | TheBlaze.com

New Benghazi whistleblowers are prepared to reveal shocking details about the Sept. 11 terror attack, including why U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was in Libya to begin with, two former U.S. diplomats reportedly told PJ Media on Monday.

The unidentified whistleblowers are reportedly colleagues of former diplomats and are seeking legal counsel because they “work in areas not fully protected by whistleblower law,” the report adds.

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IRS official to take the 5th at House hearing - KTIV News 4 Sioux City IA

WASHINGTON (AP) - Summoned by Congress, a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination and decline to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

Lois Lerner heads the IRS division that singled out conservative groups for additional scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 election campaigns.

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As Obama Pledges Storm Aid, Some in Congress Talk of Budget Cuts - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — President Obama vowed Tuesday to marshal the resources of the federal government to help the victims of Oklahoma’s killer tornado as lawmakers on Capitol Hill began debating the fiscal consequences of the storm in an era of austerity.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook, Lawmakers Square Off Over Taxes - WSJ.com

CORALVILLE COURIER EDITOR'S NOTE: Another example for how we need to get rid of the income tax law in this country and go with either a flat tax or a national sales tax.

WASHINGTON—Apple Inc.'s AAPL -0.74%tax strategies came under harsh scrutiny Tuesday in the Senate, where lawmakers are finding it far easier to call for a simpler tax code than to produce one.

Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, defended the technology giant's tax practices, which Senate investigators say have led Apple to pay no corporate taxes on tens of billions of dollars in overseas income over the past four years.

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Senate Judiciary Committee approves immigration overhaul

After three long weeks of hearings and debates, spectators burst out into screams and applause Tuesday night after the Senate Judiciary Committee approved an immigration bill that would be the biggest overhaul to the nation's immigration laws in a generation.

The bill was produced by a bipartisan group of senators known as the Gang of Eight.

via www.usatoday.com