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A U.S. Senate panel will try on Tuesday to pry more details out of current and former officials of the Internal Revenue Service about the agency's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they sought tax-exempt status.Lawmakers are also expected to demand answers about why officials did not earlier share with lawmakers evidence that IRS workers in Cincinnati, Ohio, had inappropriately focused on search criteria that included "Tea Party" and "patriots."A Senate Finance Committee hearing will give members the first public opportunity to question former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, who headed the tax-collection agency from 2008 to late 2012, during which the targeting occurred.Senators will likely seize on Shulman's congressional testimony in late March 2012 that no groups were being targeted for extra scrutiny by the tax agency.It has since emerged that the behavior started in March or April of 2010 and continued for 18 months.A Treasury Department watchdog has said ...
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday unveiled long-awaited landmark legislation to remove the threat of deportation for millions of illegal immigrants, giv...
A popular U.S. visa program for skilled workers has hit its quota just days into the application period, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service said, triggerin...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s quarterly small business survey finds that the majority of small business owners want more certainty from Washington, as well as more action on immigration and tax reform.
Reams of new economic data that seem to dispel many of the long-held fears tied to immigration are clearly forcing Congress to stop dragging its feet on the complica...
The U.S. Senate on Saturday narrowly passed its first federal budget in four years, a move that will usher in a relative lull in Washington's fiscal wars until an an...
BGR Group chairman Ed Rogers argues Thomas Perez isn’t the right person to head the Labor Department.
To boost economic growth, policymakers must find a long-term solution for the nation's rising debt, Wells Fargo & Co Chief Executive John Stumpf wrote in his annual ...
Rep. Trey Gowdy, (R-SC), on the budget talks and immigration reform .
MetLife Inc. (MET), the largest life insurer in the U.S., named former U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez to its board of directors, the first addition since a...
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, (R-Va.), on the Dept. of Homeland Security releasing illegal immigrant detainees due to sequestration.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on the Republican Party, immigration reform and gun control.
FBN's Lou Dobbs on preparing future generations for social security, Medicare and Medicaid.
A U.S. Senate committee on Thursday launched a weeks-long effort to pass a comprehensive immigration bill with a warning from the panel's top Republican that he woul...
Biz2Credit releases ‘Fastest Growing Small Business Cities in America’ study results, based on analysis of 15,000 U.S. small businesses, defined as companies having fewer than 250 employees or less than $10 million in annual revenues.
President Barack Obama expressed confidence Tuesday that he will be able to push his agenda through Congress. "As Mark Twain said, rumors of my demise may be a littl...
Immigration reform is once again a hot-button issue in the nation's capitol, with some lawmakers urging a delay in the wake of the Boston bombings, while others like...
A fight is brewing between Washington and New Delhi over provisions in the U.S.'s draft immigration bill that could hobble Indian outsourcing firms' businesses in th...
Detractors of immigration reform say the Tsarnaev brothers’ legal residence points to huge problems in the U.S. system. But supporters argue this is just a distraction – and that the nation’s entrepreneurs need reform fast.
Some U.S. entrepreneurs say they are considering moving operations abroad in order to hire high-skilled workers. And other countries, including Canada, Australia and Chile, have put out the welcome mat.
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