Oversight

Targeted Conservatives Detail IRS Delays, Requests and 'Intimidation'

Ways and Means probe of delays in tax-exempt applications surfaces agent names.

Defense

First Day of Bradley Manning's Trial: Linking Him to Bin Laden

A confused kid or a man hoping to undermine the war in Iraq?

Oversight

IRS Conference Waste Includes Speaker Who Paints, Audit Finds

TIGTA details $4.1 million gathering that took place in 2010.

Pay & Benefits

House Bill Would Give Military 1.8 Percent Pay Raise

Defense legislation includes more money for service members in 2014 than Obama proposal.

Defense

Senate Stacks Deck Against Reformers in Military Sexual Assaults Crisis

Supporters outnumbered 18-2 at hearing; no victims testify.

Oversight

Millennials Don't Hate Big Government, but They Do Hate the GOP Economic Fix

Young people don't believe cutting government will grow jobs, College National Republican Committee finds.

Oversight

Acting IRS Chief Begins Reforms, Says 'Solution is Not More Money'

House appropriators use scandal to question agency’s budget request, executive bonuses.

Management

The Lady Gaga Fix: How the U.S. Is Rethinking GDP for the 21st Century

The government will soon start counting creative endeavors like songwriting as well as research and development when it measures the economy. It's about time.

Oversight

Analysis: Issa Stirs Echoes of McCarthy in IRS Probe

Chief GOP investigator doesn't know when to let damning facts speak for themselves.

Oversight

Lawmakers Continue to Probe IRS

Congress returns from recess to three more IRS hearings and a lawsuit.

Oversight

Issa Says Washington Directed IRS Scrutiny of Conservative Groups

'We will learn the whole truth,' the Republican from California says.

Oversight

Analysis: Could Fracking Close the Budget Deficit?

A carbon levy could forestall other more painful choices.

Oversight

Will Darrell Issa Finally Find His Benghazi Smoking Gun?

Issa subpoenaed all the Benghazi talking points-related emails from 10 State Department aides.

Oversight

Congress Revs Up Resistance to a New BRAC Round

Subcommittee approves legislative language to block the base closure process.

Oversight

No Wonder Republican Criticism of Obama Isn’t Working

They’re attacking the president where he’s least vulnerable.

Defense

Analysis: A Global War on Terror by Another Name Doesn't Tell Us How to Succeed

President Obama rejected the Bush-era term Global War on Terrorism in a major speech announcing changes to his counterterrorism policies.