DOD struggles with medical e-records system

By Laurel Adams

The Department of Defense (DOD) has struggled since 1988 to establish a comprehensive medical records database for the 9.6 million service m

"Obamabortion" group challenges FEC regs

By Marianne Lavelle

A new anti-abortion group has its sights set beyond just running ads and launching viral Internet attacks on Barack Obama. The group wants t

Mixing oil and politics is formula for Newt’s “solutions”

By Marianne Lavelle

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich isn’t running for president this year, but due to a gusher of support for his campaign to promote opening

Excerpts from this story referencing "Internal Revenue Service":

"… ical organization.” According to the group’s required filings with the Internal Revenue Service, some of its first donations came from Gingrich friends and longtime backe …"

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The paper trail behind Tom DeLay's indictment

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury Wednesday on a charge of conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws. Fol

Less clean coal lobbying? Not exactly

By Marianne Lavelle

Don’t think that the “clean coal” blitz faded in the first months of the Obama administration just because newly filed disclosure forms show

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"… lobbying?” The Lobbying Disclosure Act answers the question one way. The Internal Revenue Service, which cares about making sure businesses do not deduct lobbying expenses …"

Newt’s new money to fight climate change bill

By Marianne Lavelle

The world’s largest coal company and one of the nation’s top fossil-fueled power companies are among the leading donors so far this year to

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"… rst half of 2009, according to the nonprofit’s newly filed report at the Internal Revenue Service. Peabody also gave American Solutions the same amount in 2008. The firm’ …"

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Financial industry getting off easy on IRS audits

By Nick Schwellenbach

With a week before tax day and the nation facing a massive deficit made worse by billion-dollar bailouts of financial companies, PaperTrail

Politicking pastors

By Sarah Laskow

Everyone else is talking politics these days, and now a group of conservative pastors is challenging a tax law that says they can’t join in.

Obama nominees aren’t the only people who have trouble paying taxes

By Te-Ping Chen

Since Tom Daschle beat a hasty retreat from his Cabinet nomination this week, it seems the noise over the Obama team’s tax woes has — at lea

By the numbers

By Bill Buzenberg and David E. Kaplan

With two wars and an economy in shambles, it’s not hard to get the feeling that something’s gone terribly wrong here in Washington. “We’ll l

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