Information technology officials testified on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s HealthCare.gov Web site. The witnesses were from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,…
3,295 viewsWitnesses testified at a House Oversight Committee hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) investigation of John Beale, the former high-ranking official who has plead guilty t…
396,164 viewsSarah Hill Ingram testified about the role of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in implementing the health care law. She said that the process was going well and that systems were working w…
1,276 viewsWitnesses testified on State Department involvement before, during, and after the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11-12, 2013. Questions focused on departmental …
6,775 viewsRepublican Study Committee members spoke to reporters about the shutdown of the federal government.
176 viewsWitnesses testified on the status of state efforts to implement the health care exchange marketplaces as mandated by the Affordable Care Act.
231 viewsPatricia Smith and Charles Woods, whose sons were killed in attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, testified at a hearing on State Department involvement bef…
1,242 viewsRepresentative Tom Graves (R-GA) and other congressional Republicans talked about the provision to de-fund the Affordable Care Act included in the House continuing resolution to fund the gov…
366 viewsFormer EPA chief Lisa Jackson testified to the House Oversight & Govt. Reform Cmte. about the Obama administration’s compliance to federal transparency rules. Republicans said Jackson circum…
198 viewsWitnesses testified on the Internal Revenue Service’s power to provide subsidies and tax credits for those buying insurance on health exchanges, as well as the power to apply penalties for t…
611 viewsTreasury officials testified at a hearing on identity theft-related tax fraud at the IRS, which had grown by 413 percent over the preceding five years. Georgia State Revenue Commissioner Mac…
450 viewsInternal Revenue Service Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel and officials from the Department of Health and Human Services testified at a House joint subcommittee hearing examining information…
568 viewsWitnesses testified on the status of illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and the impact of immigration reform laws on the economy.
17,725 viewsWitnesses testified on allegations that conservative groups were wrongly targeted for closer scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service. A focus was on if senior IRS officials in Washington or…
1,005 viewsWitnesses testified on allegations that senior Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington wrongly delayed the processing of tax-exemption applications from conservative groups. Treasur…
1,320 viewsWitnesses testified on the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) contracting practices. The House Oversight Committee released a report accusing the IRS of improperly awarding contracts to the in…
954 viewsTop Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Treasury Department officials testified about practices and culture within the IRS, as well as revelations that the IRS had inappropriately scrutinized…
5,508 viewsMembers of Congress joined with tea party activists in an “Audit the IRS” rally at the West Front of the Capitol, to protest alleged abuses by the Internal Revenue Service. The opening speec…
3,183 viewsRobert Mueller testified at an FBI oversight hearing. Among the topics he addressed were the Boston Marathon bombings, the disclosure of National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs …
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