Lois Lerner

A new special committee chaired byÃÂ Rep. Trey GowdyÃÂ created to investigate the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, will hold its first public hearing next week, the panel announced Monday.ÃÂ (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Nine reasons Trey Gowdy was chosen to head the House Select Committee on Benghazi

Becket Adams · September 16, 2014 4:44 pm

Anti-tax hiker Grover Norquist wonders whether the Internal Revenue Service audit of Breitbart News represents a new front in the federal agency's targeting of conservative groups.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Is Breitbart audit evidence of IRS assault on conservative media outlets?

Mark Tapscott · September 12, 2014 4:17 pm

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Washington Secrets

Emails: IRS worker got $138,000 to do ‘nothing’ — and union saved her job

Paul Bedard · September 10, 2014 7:11 pm

Multiple news outlets, including the Washington Examiner, have unsuccessfully pressed IRS officials for answers on Lerner's Blackberry. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

We still don’t know why Lois Lerner’s Blackberry was wiped clean

Becket Adams · September 5, 2014 10:36 pm

IRS says it has lost emails from 5 more employees

IRS says it has lost emails from 5 more employees

Stephen Ohlemacher · September 5, 2014 7:47 pm

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, on the IRS' response to the targeting of conservative organizations. (AP Photo)

Koskinen to explain why IRS didn’t search 760 servers that may have Lerner’s email

Mark Tapscott · September 5, 2014 5:36 pm

Lois Lerner's lost emails may have been saved, thanks to budget cuts. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Budget cuts may have spared key IRS emails

Susan Ferrechio · September 5, 2014 4:25 pm

Department of Justice officials appear to be going to unusual lengths to prevent a former IRS attorney from talking to Congress about his time working for Lois Lerner, the woman at the center of the IRS scandal. (iStock)

Justice Department blocking House panel from talking to former IRS attorney

Mark Tapscott · September 5, 2014 9:00 am

Two federal judges acting within 24 hours of each other last Thursday and Friday served notice on the IRS that it's time to pay up. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

IRS scandal needs a special prosecutor

Washington Examiner · September 1, 2014 9:00 pm

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her staff apparently need a few lessons in geography and basic definitions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Nancy Pelosi wants Congress to debate next military moves on ISIS

Susan Ferrechio · August 29, 2014 11:00 pm

Voters leave a polling place on election day in Nashville, Tenn. (AP/Mark Humphrey)

No Republican wave in November election

Susan Ferrechio · August 28, 2014 9:00 am

Jeff Miller, the chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, is burrowed in his office, across the street from the Capitol, plotting the next several months of his aggressive strategy to get to the bottom of a national scandal that has enveloped the Department of Veterans Affairs. (AP Photo)

Republican veterans chairman blasts Obama speech

Susan Ferrechio · August 26, 2014 7:21 pm