Treasury Department

The IRS backlog for freedom of info. requests grew rapidly amid its Tea Party controversy, according to a new fed. audit. Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration said in its new report that 217 information requests were stalled at the end of the '13 fiscal year: an 84% increase.

Repubs. are pointing to statements by a top Treasury Dept. official as evidence that the Obama admin. overstepped its authority in delaying Obamacare's requirement that employers offer coverage or pay a penalty.

Treasury would use incoming revenue to pay interest on the debt before it made other payments. Saying they would do anything else is just a bluff. GOP leaders and a few courageous reporters must start countering the fear-mongering with economic reality or we'll lose.

Issa wants to open up a new front in an IRS investigation, focusing on the treatment of conservative groups that were already granted tax-exempt status.

Dems are spinning a lie that we don't have a debt problem now but the real econ data doesn't lie.

Treasury admitted that confidential candidate and donor records were improperly scrutinized. Why won’t DOJ prosecute?

Cummings wants George to testify again after discovering he lied about evidence of IRS-Tea Party targeting.

The editors of The Washington Post bought the political spin from the Obama administration and congressional Democrats even when it was flatly contradicted by the Inspector General charged with actually investigating the targeting of the Tea Party for the Treasury.

Sen. Tom Coburn wants to know why the Treasury Dept. omitted lavish IRS conference spending.