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Watchdogs say IRS targeted wrong groups
A burgeoning scandal that threatens to undermine President Barack Obama's second-term agenda mushroomed over the targeting of grandmothers like Marion Bower, who counts an annual garage sale as one of her local Tea Party group's biggest fundraisers. Bower's Fremont-based American Patriots Against Government Excess, which has an estimated $800 in ...
Tea Party groups plan legal action
A prominent Ohio conservative organization and 16 other Tea Party groups from across the country may sue the Internal Revenue Service after the federal government acknowledged the tax agency targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. Such a suit, if filed, would ask for damages that could include the cost of ...
Butler County group was flagged by IRS
When Butler County’s Liberty Twp. Tea Party asked the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status as a charitable organization, IRS officials in Cincinnati last year responded with a list of 35 questions. They wanted to know the organization’s relationship with Justin Binik-Thomas, a Tea Party member in Cincinnati who had ...
Wright-Patt employees will face 11 furlough days starting in early July
Thousands of Wright-Patterson civilian employees won’t spend as much time off the job without pay after the Pentagon dropped the number of furlough days to 11 from 14 on Tuesday. The reduction cut in half the 22 furlough days that 13,000 local civil service workers originally faced earlier this year, ...
IRS mess prompts inquiries
Revelations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups because of their political beliefs provoked bipartisan fury in Washington Monday, with lawmakers demanding hearings and President Barack Obama calling the IRS targeted inquiries “outrageous.’’ Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville, introduced a bill that would make it a crime — with penalties ...
How Congress voted last week
How Congress voted last weekReaders have told us they want to know how local and Ohio members of the U.S. House and Senate are voting on major issues. In most Monday editions, we will publish a list of votes.HouseLocal southwest Ohio members in bold.H.R. 807A bill that would allow the ...
Portman admits he smoked pot
Now it can be told: Sen. Rob Portman inhaled.Portman, R-Ohio, sitting for an interview with Buzzfeed last week, admitted to smoking pot when he was younger, though he said he’s now very involved in drug prevention.The news isn’t entirely new – it was reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer in ...
Video: Portman says pot smoking ‘something I regret’
Now it can be told: Sen. Rob Portman inhaled.Portman, R-Ohio, sitting for an interview with Buzzfeed last week, admitted to smoking pot when he was younger, though he said he’s now very involved in drug prevention.A video of his interview can be seen on YouTube.The news isn’t entirely new – ...
IRS admits to targeting tea party groups
The Internal Revenue Service Friday admitted to targeting tea party groups during the 2010 and 2012 elections for extra scrutiny, saying “mistakes were made” in the handling of those organizations’ applications for tax-exempt status.The IRS apology came after complaints from tea party organizations including the Ohio Liberty Council that they ...
New details Friday in AF officer sexual battery case
In the years leading up to his weekend arrest for groping a woman in a northern Virginia parking lot, Fairfield native Jeffrey Krusinski, the head of the Air Force’s sexual assault and prevention unit, appeared to be struggling personally. When his wife of 14 years, Cheryl Masanek, filed for divorce ...
Brown, Portman behind effort to stop spread of Asian carp
A Senate amendment aimed at stopping the spread of Asian carp has been added to a bill authorizing federal water resource programs. The amendment, introduced by Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio and Pat Toomey, R-Pa, mirrors legislation Brown introduced earlier this year. Its cosponsors include Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio. The amendment, ...
New info in AF Lt. Col.'s sex assault case
Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Krusinski appeared in a Virginia courtroom Thursday after he was charged with misdemeanor sexual battery in a case that has garnered national attention because of the proliferation of sexual assault and abuse cases in the military Krusinski, who graduated from Fairfield High School, was chief of ...
Dayton congressman goes to White House today to discuss sex abuse in the military
U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, co-Chair of the Military Sexual Assault Prevention Caucus, met with White House officials today to discuss the issue of sexual assault in the military.Turner was to meet with President Barack Obama’s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and Tina Tchen, the chief of staff to first lady ...
Jordan, Turner question security in Benghazi incident
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Wednesday said that Gregory Hicks, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, had been treated well and praised for outstanding work for more than two decades only to see ...
Tax plan stirs clash of titans
An online sales-tax proposal has triggered a divisive debate among business owners and attracted a strange-bedfellows mix of supporters that includes the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce and Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown. The “Marketplace Fairness Act,” which will be voted on by the U.S. Senate as early as Monday, ...
Jordan irks party at times, but shrugs off criticism
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan’s underdog days began in high school, when he beat the odds and won a state wrestling championship as a ninth-grader. “I didn’t know some freshman from Graham High School, a redneck country boy, wasn’t supposed to win,’’ said the 49-year-old Jordan, who went on to become ...
Tax cheats could lose fed contracts
In addition to cutting the budget, some in Congress want to make sure the federal government does a better job of collecting what it is owed.The U.S. House of Representatives this month passed a measure that would ban federal agencies from giving large contracts and grants to contractors who are ...
Dayton native making her mark in Washington
U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Columbus, has been a U.S. congresswoman for about four months, and in some ways the Dayton native is still getting to know Washington, D.C. But Beatty is determined not to be underestimated — and her determination is a force in itself. This is, after all, a ...
How our members of Congress voted last week
How Ohioans voted last week Readers have told us they want to know how local and Ohio members of the U.S. House and Senate are voting on major issues. In most Monday editions, we will publish a list of votes. HOUSE Local southwest Ohio members in bold. HR 1765 – ...
How Congress voted last week
How Congress voted last weekReaders have told us they want to know how local and Ohio members of the U.S. House and Senate are voting on major issues. In most Monday editions, we will publish a list of votes.HouseLocal southwest Ohio members in bold.H.R. 882A bill that would prohibit contractors ...
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