U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

GOP lawmakers criticize Atty. Gen. Holder over leak probes

2013-06-02 11:45:00

WASHINGTON — Republicans sharply criticized Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. on Sunday for his handling of an investigation into a possible leak of classified information to a Fox News reporter, suggesting that Holder lied to Congress last month in...

IRS suspends two in controversy over conference spending

2013-06-05 14:32:00

WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service has suspended two employees for accepting free items during a conference in 2010, the first example of agency personnel facing disciplinary action connected to recent investigations of wasteful spending on...

With new revelations, outrage spreads about IRS targeting

2013-05-13 21:23:00

WASHINGTON — Top career officials in the Internal Revenue Service withheld information from Congress for months about the tax agency's targeting of conservative organizations for extra scrutiny, according to documents released Monday as a...

Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists

2013-05-13 21:33:00

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...

Obama dismisses Benghazi criticism as 'sideshow'

2013-05-13 19:20:00

WASHINGTON — A defiant President Obama dismissed as a "sideshow" the controversy over his administration's handling of last year's armed assault in Benghazi, Libya, accusing critics of trying to make political hay from the deaths of four Americans....

IRS targeted conservative groups, official says

2013-05-10 21:25:00

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service improperly singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny of their applications for nonprofit status, a top agency official said Friday, setting off calls for investigations into an organization...

Envoy describes night of Benghazi attack

2013-05-08 16:27:00

WASHINGTON — Minutes after Greg Hicks learned that the perimeter of the U.S. mission in Benghazi had been breached by men with guns, he punched a cellphone number to reach Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, his immediate boss, who was at the scene....

House committee hearing on Benghazi attack opens on partisan note

2013-05-08 10:10:00

WASHINGTON -- A hearing on the deadly September 2012 attack on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, began with sharp exchanges Wednesday morning when the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform accused the Republican...

Partisan politics, little new information at House Benghazi hearing

2013-05-08 12:38:00

WASHINGTON — Partisan politics loomed over a House hearing Wednesday� on the deadly September 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound� in Benghazi, Libya, as Republicans and Democrats clashed over the meaning of testimony from three witnesses...

Nobody died at Watergate, but it was a bigger scandal than Benghazi

2013-05-08 17:49:00

Before Wednesday's hearing into last September’s attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said: “If you link Watergate and Iran-Contra together and multiply it maybe by 10 or so, you’re going to...

IRS puts head of problem office on leave

2013-05-24 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service has replaced the head of the office under fire for improperly targeting conservative groups, a day after she invoked the 5th Amendment and refused to answer questions before a congressional committee. Lois...

IRS' last two commissioners deny lying; official to take the 5th

2013-05-21 19:13:00

WASHINGTON — As the Internal Revenue Service's last two directors struggled to provide answers Tuesday about the agency's improper scrutiny of conservative groups, a lawyer for another key IRS official said she would invoke the 5th Amendment...

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa.

2013-05-30 18:07:00

Lois Lerner, who supervises the IRS employees handling applications for nonprofit status, invoked the 5th Amendment after telling the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that she had done nothing wrong.

2013-05-22 00:00:00

Douglas Shulman, former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, left, Lois Lerner, the director of the IRS's exempt organizations office, center, and Neal Wolin, deputy secretary of the U.S.

2013-05-22 00:00:00