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Holder Holds Up in House Judiciary Hearing, but More Attacks Coming The face-off between Attorney General Eric Holder and some Republican House members during Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing seemed more like the opening shots of a battle than any real showdown. Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 10:15pm
You Want Angry? I'll Show You Angry. Says President Obama on IRS Scandal Under pressure to show who's boss, President Obama called a press conference late Wednesday to say he was “angry” that the IRS singled out conservative groups for extra vetting and to announce that the agency’s acting commissioner had been forced out. "Its inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it," he said. "I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives." Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 7:20pm
You Want Angry? I'll Show You Angry, Obama Says on IRS Scandal Under pressure to show who's boss, President Obama called a press conference late Wednesday to say he was “angry” that the IRS singled out conservative groups for extra vetting and to announce that the agency’s acting commissioner had been forced out. "It's inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it," he said. "I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives." Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 7:20pm
Benghazi E-Mails Reveal CIA Handling of Talking Points The White House, in an effort to calm the swirl of controversy about the reaction to last year’s attacks on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, late Wednesday released more than 100 pages of emails that led to the development of talking points that attempted to explain the violence that left four Americans dead. The emails had earlier been shown to members of Congress but the White House had resisted releasing them, citing the precedent of protecting internal discussions within an administration. Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 6:20pm
Under Pressure, the White House Releases More Than 100 Pages of Benghazi E-Mails The White House, in an effort to calm the swirl of controversy about the reaction to last year’s attacks on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, late Wednesday released more than 100 pages of e-mails leading to the development of talking points that attempted to explain the violence that left four Americans dead. The e-mails had earlier been shown to members of Congress but the White House had resisted releasing them, citing the precedent of protecting internal discussions within an administration. Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 6:20pm
Eric Cantor’s Caucus Thwarts His Push for an Alternative Agenda Readers of It’s Even Worse Than It Looks know that I have not always treated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor kindly. I have excoriated him for engineering the debt-ceiling crisis in 2011 as a hostage-taking exercise, and then blowing up the talks between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner that could have led to a grand bargain. Cantor himself recently took credit for the latter in a profile written by Ryan Lizza in The New Yorker. He told Lizza “that it was a ‘fair assessment’ that he talked Boehner out of accepting Obama’s deal. Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 5:31pm
How Obama Could Start Fixing the IRS The Internal Revenue Service needs a new leader—and fast. The agency hasn't had a commissioner since November, and now it doesn't have an acting commissioner, either. Although lawmakers had been asking about reports that conservative groups were targeted for onerous extra scrutiny, the acting commissioner, Steven Miller, didn't share the information when he later learned that to be the case. President Obama said Wednesday that Miller's resignation had been requested and accepted. Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 5:02pm
Eric Holder Offers Little Information, Much Ire for Republicans It only took Attorney General Eric Holder a few moments to make clear he wanted no part of congressional Republicans’ plans to turn his Capitol Hill appearance into a serious grilling about the scandals of the day. “I appreciated this opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the Justice Department’s recent achievements,” Holder began. His opening statement made no mention of grabbing the Associated Press’ phone records, Benghazi, or the IRS targeting conservatives for special scrutiny. That would all have to come during questioning. Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 4:50pm
Immigration Will Soon be the Biggest Population Driver—For the First Time Since 1850 Some time in roughly the next 15 to 25 years, immigration will become the primary driver of U.S. population growth, overtaking “natural” increases for the first time in nearly 200 years. Some time in roughly the next 15 to 25 years, immigration will become the primary driver of U.S. population growth, overtaking “natural” increases for the first time in nearly 200 years. Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 4:23pm
Eric Holder Calls Rep. Darrell Issa 'Unacceptable and Shameful' This much is clear: Attorney General Eric Holder and Rep. Darrell Issa don't like each other. The attorney general accused the Republican lawmaker of “unacceptable and shameful" conduct as frustrations boiled over in a heated exchange that drew gasps from a packed congressional committee room on Wednesday. "No – I'm not going to stop talking now," Holder said at one point, as Issa dismissed his answers and sought to pivot to a new line of questioning. Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 3:20pm

Holder Holds Up in House Judiciary Hearing, but More Attacks Coming

The face-off between Attorney General Eric Holder and some Republican House members during Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing seemed more like the opening shots of a battle than any real showdown.

Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 10:15pm

You Want Angry? I'll Show You Angry. Says President Obama on IRS Scandal

Under pressure to show who's boss, President Obama called a press conference late Wednesday to say he was “angry” that the IRS singled out conservative groups for extra vetting and to announce that the agency’s acting commissioner had been forced out.

"Its inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it," he said. "I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives."

Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 7:20pm

You Want Angry? I'll Show You Angry, Obama Says on IRS Scandal

"It's inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it," he said. "I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives."

Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 7:20pm

Benghazi E-Mails Reveal CIA Handling of Talking Points

The White House, in an effort to calm the swirl of controversy about the reaction to last year’s attacks on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, late Wednesday released more than 100 pages of emails that led to the development of talking points that attempted to explain the violence that left four Americans dead. The emails had earlier been shown to members of Congress but the White House had resisted releasing them, citing the precedent of protecting internal discussions within an administration.

Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 6:20pm

Under Pressure, the White House Releases More Than 100 Pages of Benghazi E-Mails

The White House, in an effort to calm the swirl of controversy about the reaction to last year’s attacks on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, late Wednesday released more than 100 pages of e-mails leading to the development of talking points that attempted to explain the violence that left four Americans dead. The e-mails had earlier been shown to members of Congress but the White House had resisted releasing them, citing the precedent of protecting internal discussions within an administration.

Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 6:20pm

Eric Cantor’s Caucus Thwarts His Push for an Alternative Agenda

Readers of It’s Even Worse Than It Looks know that I have not always treated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor kindly. I have excoriated him for engineering the debt-ceiling crisis in 2011 as a hostage-taking exercise, and then blowing up the talks between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner that could have led to a grand bargain. Cantor himself recently took credit for the latter in a profile written by Ryan Lizza in The New Yorker. He told Lizza “that it was a ‘fair assessment’ that he talked Boehner out of accepting Obama’s deal.

Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 5:31pm

How Obama Could Start Fixing the IRS

The Internal Revenue Service needs a new leader—and fast.

The agency hasn't had a commissioner since November, and now it doesn't have an acting commissioner, either. Although lawmakers had been asking about reports that conservative groups were targeted for onerous extra scrutiny, the acting commissioner, Steven Miller, didn't share the information when he later learned that to be the case. President Obama said Wednesday that Miller's resignation had been requested and accepted.

Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 5:02pm

Eric Holder Offers Little Information, Much Ire for Republicans

It only took Attorney General Eric Holder a few moments to make clear he wanted no part of congressional Republicans’ plans to turn his Capitol Hill appearance into a serious grilling about the scandals of the day.

“I appreciated this opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the Justice Department’s recent achievements,” Holder began.

His opening statement made no mention of grabbing the Associated Press’ phone records, Benghazi, or the IRS targeting conservatives for special scrutiny. That would all have to come during questioning.

Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 4:50pm

Immigration Will Soon be the Biggest Population Driver—For the First Time Since 1850

Some time in roughly the next 15 to 25 years, immigration will become the primary driver of U.S. population growth, overtaking “natural” increases for the first time in nearly 200 years.

Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 4:23pm

Eric Holder Calls Rep. Darrell Issa 'Unacceptable and Shameful'

This much is clear: Attorney General Eric Holder and Rep. Darrell Issa don't like each other.

The attorney general accused the Republican lawmaker of “unacceptable and shameful" conduct as frustrations boiled over in a heated exchange that drew gasps from a packed congressional committee room on Wednesday.

"No – I'm not going to stop talking now," Holder said at one point, as Issa dismissed his answers and sought to pivot to a new line of questioning.

Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 3:20pm

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