So, let's get this straight...Politico: Scandal politics are sweeping Capitol Hill.
Just days after news broke that the IRS targeted conservative nonprofits, Speaker John Boehner’s House committees will morph into mock courtrooms where the White House will be the defendant in what amounts to a number of high-stakes political trials.
The most recent scandal to grip the Obama administration came Monday evening, when The Associated Press disclosed that the Justice Department sought its reporters’ phone records — including those of correspondents who sit in the Capitol. Within hours, House Republicans vowed to investigate. To make things worse for President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder is scheduled to be on Capitol Hill Wednesday for a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
That’s hardly the president’s only problem.
Two separate committees — Oversight and Government Reform, and Ways and Means — will probe whether the IRS was treating right-leaning groups unfairly.
The IRS probes might be new to the public, but they’re not to House Republicans, who have long worried about politicization at the agency. The hot-button topic has come up in several committee hearings since the GOP took the majority.
There are currently five separate committee investigations into the attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, and a probe into Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius raising millions of dollars to promote Obamacare. Ways and Means is demanding answers to seven questions on this matter, as well.
All together, roughly one-third of House committees are engaged in investigating some aspect of the Obama administration.
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Benghazi, IRS: Son of Watergate?
Top Dem calls for public testimony on Benghazi
Obama’s claim he called Benghazi an ‘act of terrorism’ -- Four Pinocchios
Cheney: President Obama Involved In Ongoing Benghazi Cover-Up
IRS scandal:
In IRS scandal, echoes of Watergate
IRS head Steven Miller: 'Mistakes were made'
Top IRS official didn't reveal tea party targeting
Senior tax officials knew of extra Tea Party scrutiny
Revealed: The 55 questions the IRS asked one tea party group after more than two years of waiting – including demands for names of all its donors and volunteers
IRS employees donated over twice as much to Obama in 2012
Exclusive McConnell: IRS revelations 'just the beginning'
Obama’s IRS: Six times the IRS has been accused of punishing President Obama's political opponents
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Gov't probe obtains wide swath of AP phone records
Under sweeping subpoenas, Justice Department obtained AP phone records in leak investigation
White House responds to Justice Dept. secretly obtaining AP phone records: "We are not involved"
...and there you have it: a corrupt administration that just over a majority of voters, just a few short months ago, reinstalled in our nation's Capitol. Way to go...
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UPDATES: HHS and the EPA have joined the fray...
Sebelius joins Holder, Hillary and Obama down the rabbit hole...
Whatever it takes to kickstart that POS legislation, they'll do it.FoxNews: House Republicans are starting a probe into Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius soliciting donations from companies her agency might regulate, to help sign up uninsured Americans for ObamaCare.
Sebelius in recent weeks has asked various charitable foundations, businesses executives, churches and doctors to donate money to nonprofit organizations, such as Enroll America, that are helping to implement President Obama's health care overhaul.
And looks like the EPA has pulled an 'IRS'!
Who'd like to wager that this stuff has gone on throughout most, if not all, of the executive agencies under Mr. Transparency's administration?TheDC: The IRS may not be the only federal agency singling out conservative groups. Records suggest that the Environmental Protection Agency has made it easier for environmental groups to file Freedom of Information Act requests than conservative organizations.
According to EPA records obtained by the free market Competitive Enterprise Institute, since January 2012 the agency has granted fee waivers for 75 out of 82 Freedom of Information Act requests sent by major environmental groups, denying only seven of them — meaning green groups saw their fees waived 92 percent of the time.
At the same time, the EPA frequently denied fee waivers to conservative groups. EPA records show that the agency rejected or ignored 21 out of 26 fee waiver requests from such conservative groups as the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Institute for Energy Research, and Judicial Watch — an 81 percent rejection rate.
