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Taxing the tea party
Loyal readers of this page are likely aware that we have not been great supporters of the tea party movement. Too often, we have found those anti-tax crusaders who call themselves tea party patriots are simply rebranded John Birch Society members of an...
Tags: Taxation, Susan Collins, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress, Richard Nixon
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Average federal salary up, despite pay freeze
The "average" federal employee salary is nearly $78,500, an amount that has risen by about $1,800 in the past two years despite a general freeze on salary rates, according to the Office of Personnel Management. As of September, OPM reported last week,...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress, Government, Barack Obama
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Federal firefighters push for shift-swap flexibility
When city or county firefighters have a family event or unexpected obligation pop up on a workday, their solution is familiar to most shift workers: They find a colleague willing to trade hours. But for the roughly 10,000 firefighters employed by the...Tags: Tom Coburn, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, International Association of Fire Fighters, Fort Meade (military base), National Government
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Dundalk residents react to Postal Service's decision to stop Saturday delivery
At the Dundalk Post Office this week, news that the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service would stop delivering mail on Saturdays beginning in August was greeted with a mix of apathy and understanding. Twenty-four-year-old Jordan Gillis said he wasn't...
Tags: Finance, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. Congress, Dundalk, Labor Legislation
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Reactions mixed to Postal Service's decision to stop Saturday delivery
Word that the cash-strapped Postal Service would stop delivering mail on Saturdays hit Lakesha Johnson hard. "I think that's terrible," the Baltimore woman said Wednesday outside the city's Main Post Office on East Fayette Street. "When they want to...
Tags: Finance, CNBC (tv network), Government Postal Delivery, Tom Coburn, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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Benghazi attack: Time for an honest accounting
Despite this season's election-year politics, the Obama administration needs to acknowledge mistakes at the U.S. consulate in Libya, where four Americans were killed last month in an apparent terrorist attack, and to learn from them. That's the only way...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Hillary Clinton, Elections, Terrorism, Republican Party
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Cummings launches probe on voter registration challenges
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings is requesting that a group whose affiliates have challenged the legitimately of thousands of voter registrations, including some in Maryland, turn over documents to demonstrate how it determines which registrations to target. In a...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Elections, Democratic Party, Elijah E. Cummings, Republican Party
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Fast and Furious: The Second Amendment conspiracy theory
The brouhaha over Attorney General Eric Holder and the contempt of Congress charge brought by U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa is providing new evidence that the lunatics are running the Republican asylum. Mr. Issa, the California Republican who is chairman of the...
Tags: George W. Bush, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, White House, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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What would a "digital Citizens' Bill of Rights" look like for Internet users?
If you've paid attention to Internet news over the past year, you might know that the notion of a "free Internet" has been hotly debated and seen by many as under siege. Internet activists recently stopped SOPA and PIPA, two bills that would've given...
Tags: Recording Industry Association of America, PROTECT IP Act, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Talk of D.C. commuter tax finds opposition in Maryland
Talk in Congress of letting the District of Columbia tax commuters is getting a cool reception in Maryland. Officials in Washington say such a measure could raise $1.2 billion in new revenue — enough to fund nearly an eighth of the district's $9.65...
Tags: Taxation, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Maryland Area Regional Commuter Rail, Tax Credits, Georgetown
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'Furious' probe ought to focus on lax gun laws
Letter writer Larry Sturgill ("Fast & Furious probe not a partisan fishing expedition," July 2) comments that a program similar to one begun under the Bush administration and conducted by the Obama administration, Operation Fast & Furious, was...Tags: Methamphetamine (drug), Interior Policy, Mexico, National Rifle Association of America, Personal Weapon Control
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Holder contempt vote is dysfunctional Washington as usual
Most Americans probably haven't given much thought to the botched gun trafficking investigation by theBureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosivesknown as "Fast and Furious." What they do know are probably the most embarrassing details —...
Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Legal Services, Same-Sex Marriage, National Rifle Association of America
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