Five separate House committees are investigating facets of the attack and its aftermath, and the five chairmen compared notes on Thursday at a meeting organized by House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

Roger Colinvaux says the IRS scandal is fundamentally about disclosure of donors, not tax-exempt status.

Members of the House Ways and Means Committee will take their turn Friday questioning Internal Revenue Service officials over the targeting of conservative groups by the agency.

Tea party groups describe an arduous IRS application process for tax-exempt status with probing questions and long delays.

The Internal Revenue Service has admitted that it targeted groups with "tea party" or "patriot" in their names. We've since learned that a wider array of groups concerned about spending, debt, high taxes, government growth, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights -- basically any conservative or libertarian issue you can name -- was targeted.

The image shows the contamination.Associated PressCAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were...

"Right out of the gate with this thing. Yellowhammer? C'mon. I Asked Jeeves and it told me that Yellowhammer is some backwoods name for a yellow-shafted flicker." Nicholas Lund

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The governor spoke today to the Alabama League of Municipalities in Montgomery.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, long considered by most as the authority in debates over federal spending, issued a report Friday that finds Obama's proposed budget would reduce future deficits more quickly than current law. In all, the CBO finds Obama's proposal would reduce the deficit by just over $1 trillion over the next decade.