President Barack Obama today announced the resignation of Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven T. Miller, a day after an Inspector General report found that the…
Excerpts from press briefing remarks by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on the FY2014 budget proposed by President Barack Obama on…
Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wy.) and former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles are pressing Congress and the Obama administration to reduce the deficit by another…
Congress & President failed to avert sequestration, $85 billion in cuts set to take effect in FY 2013 5 key facts about sequestration Non-defense discretionary program cuts:…
The federal government will have to slash $85 billion between now and the end of September after Congress and the White House failed to reach an agreement to…
How sequestration will impact the Treasury Department: 1. Impose furloughs – or temporary unpaid leaves – on Internal Revenue Service employees. This could result in longer wait times…
Taxpayers could experience delays in getting their tax refunds this year if the Internal Revenue Service [IRS] has to furlough employees because of sequestration.
Transcript of President Barack Obama’s remarks on sequestration at a press briefing on Feb. 19, 2013: As I said in my State of the Union address last week,…
What The Folly?!
Acting IRS Commissioner resigns after IG report found “inappropriate” actions taken against conservative organizations applying for tax exempt status
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
President Barack Obama today announced the resignation of Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven T. Miller, a day after an Inspector General report found that the…
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Transcript: House GOP’s response to President Barack Obama’s FY2014 budget
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Excerpts from press briefing remarks by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on the FY2014 budget proposed by President Barack Obama on…
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Simpson-Bowles call for an additional $2.4 trillion in deficit reduction
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wy.) and former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles are pressing Congress and the Obama administration to reduce the deficit by another…
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Roundup: Impacts of sequestration on defense and non-defense programs
Monday, March 4, 2013
Congress & President failed to avert sequestration, $85 billion in cuts set to take effect in FY 2013 5 key facts about sequestration Non-defense discretionary program cuts:…
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Congress & President failed to avert sequestration, $85 billion in cuts set to take effect in FY 2013
Monday, March 4, 2013
The federal government will have to slash $85 billion between now and the end of September after Congress and the White House failed to reach an agreement to…
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Transcript: Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s remarks after the White House sequester meeting on March 1, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
Transcript of press briefing remarks by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi after the White House sequester meeting on March 1, 2013:
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Overview of Treasury Department sequester cuts
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
How sequestration will impact the Treasury Department: 1. Impose furloughs – or temporary unpaid leaves – on Internal Revenue Service employees. This could result in longer wait times…
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Sequestration-induced furlough at the IRS will delay processing of tax returns
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Taxpayers could experience delays in getting their tax refunds this year if the Internal Revenue Service [IRS] has to furlough employees because of sequestration.
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Transcript: House Speaker John Boehner’s remarks on sequestration on Feb. 14, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Partial transcript of press briefing remarks by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Feb. 14, 2013:
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Transcript: President Barack Obama blames sequestration on GOP’s “partisan recklessness and ideological rigidity”
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Transcript of President Barack Obama’s remarks on sequestration at a press briefing on Feb. 19, 2013: As I said in my State of the Union address last week,…
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