Preventing Lois Lerner 2.0. Representative Peter Roskam is now chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee whose jurisdiction includes oversight of the Internal Revenue Service, and hence of Lois Lerner’s legacy. He knows how interesting her career was before she, as head of the IRS exempt-organizations division, directed the suppression ... MORE
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George Will: The House Takes On IRS Lawlessness
Preventing Lois Lerner 2.0. Representative Peter Roskam is now chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee whose jurisdiction includes oversight of the Internal Revenue Service, and hence of Lois Lerner’s legacy. He knows how interesting her career was before she, as head of the IRS exempt-organizations division, directed the suppression ... MOREDid Congress Stop Marijuana Legalization in D.C.?
by Jacob Sullum. The omnibus
spending bill that Congress approved last week includes a
rider aimed at blocking marijuana legalization in Washington, D.C.
Whether it actually will do that is a matter of debate,
and the way this provision was passed suggests that pot
prohibitionists are in a weaker position than ever before. The rider, introduced ... MORECongress Just Says No To Funding War On Medical Pot
by Ryan Burns. People pulling politicians by the ear again. When the U.S. government loses a war it does so quietly, with an utter dearth of fanfare. True to form, in the latest spending bill to pass the U.S. House of Representatives there appears to be a tiny, inconspicuous white flag signaling the end of the Justice Department's war on medical ... MORE
Congress Poised To Allow Cuts To Private Pension Payouts
by Evan Halper. More than 1 million Americans who were promised secure, predictable retirement income probably will see part of their monthly benefit checks evaporate as Congress moves to stabilize some private pension systems veering toward insolvency. The expected congressional action to allow previously promised private-sector ... MOREMeasure To Tax Internet Sales Is Dead For A Year
by Sean Higgins. Legislation to tax Internet sales is dead for the year, a key Senate aide said. No bill allowing the taxation will be taken up before Congress' lame-duck session ends, meaning that purchases made through online merchants such as Amazon will continue to be tax-free for the foreseeable future. A coalition made up of state and ... MORE4 Members of Congress Put Their Hands Up in Solidarity With Protesters But 0 Voted to Limit Police Militarization
by Ed Krayewski. Symbolism without subbstance. Michael
Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson,
Missouri, in August. Protests over the shooting yielded a
militarized response from police. Renewed protests continued in
October and again after a grand jury declined to indict Darren
Wilson, the officer who shot Brown. ... MOREAndrew Giambrone: Will Congress Let D.C. Legalize Pot?
Will national politicians allow liberty? Imagine your state just passed a law legalizing marijuana in small amounts. If you are at least 21 years old, you can possess up to two ounces, give as much as one ounce to other adults, and grow as many as six marijuana plants at home. Because you enjoy consuming pot recreationally, you plant ... MORELawmakers Should Protect Property Rights
What a conservative Congress should do. Property rights are a fundamental value of political conservatives, and the new conservative majorities in Congress and the state Legislature have early opportunities to enhance those rights. Those rights most often have become controversial in eminent domain cases, where governments ... MOREWith a Big GOP Wave, Americans Wisely Voted for Gridlock
by J.D. Tuccille. On election night, TV talking heads watching the Republican wave/surge/tidal flow across the country earnestly looked at each other and asked if the new Republican Senate majority can work with the president and overcome the gridlock that has so turned off voters. Umm...what? Yeah, I know Americans keep telling ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Waging War
The War Powers Resolution is a two-edged sword. James Madison is commonly referred to as the Father of the Constitution in large measure because, in the secrecy of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, he kept the most complete set of notes. He also had a very keen mind and a modest demeanor and an uncanny ... MOREJosh Hicks: IRS Finds More Key Hard-Drive Crashes
They say just bad luck, no tampering. The Internal Revenue Service is missing e-mails from five more employees whose records could shed light on the agency’s targeting scandal, but there are no signs that its personnel have intentionally destroyed evidence, according to an IRS review. In a report to four congressional committees on Friday, ... MORE
Sally Pipes: Obamacare's Device Tax Grows More Devious
Business is not going well at the Internal Revenue Service. The agency projected that it would collect $1.2 billion between April and September of last year from Obamacare’s medical device tax, which went into effect at the beginning of 2013. But the tax take was just three-quarters of that. Implementing the tax has proven nightmarish. ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Spying, Lying And Torture
The manifestation of lawlessness and incompetence. In some respects, the recent admission by CIA Director John Brennan that his agents and his lawyers have been spying on the senators whose job it is to monitor the agency should come as no surprise. The agency's job is to steal and keep secrets, and implicit in those tasks, Brennan ... MOREJason Snead: Civil Forfeiture Criticized in Congress
Politician comes out against legalized theft. The growing national chorus in favor of civil asset forfeiture reform
gained new allies in the halls of Congress last week. Denouncing civil
forfeiture as an “ugly development,” Representative Tim Walberg (R–MI) took to the floor of the House of Representatives to call for the practice to be ... MORE
Incumbents Should Be Tossed To The Curb, But Won't Be
by David Harsanyi. 90% will be re-elected. Even in the most catastrophic year for congressional incumbents, 90 percent of them will win re-election—and most of them will do so rather easily. Many of them, in fact, won't even have to run a campaign. This fact might be somewhat obscured lately, what with all the talk of the impending ... MORE
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