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Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the political targeting scandal plans to assert her constitutional right not to answer questions from a congressional committee.
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A policy change scheduled to go into effect this week that would have allowed passengers to carry small knives, bats and other sports equipment onto airliners will be delayed.
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Max Baucus, chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, will not seek re-election to a seventh term next year, according to a Democratic aide.
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After the 2008 financial crisis, Congress required the Federal Reserve to devise specific ways of protecting taxpayers. The Fed has not done this yet, the NYT reports.
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CNBC's Eamon Javers has the latest details on a ricin-tainted envelope sent to Sen. Roger Wicker, (R-MI) office on Tuesday. And, Sen. Jack Reed, (D-RI), and Sen. Angus King, (I-ME),discuss Tuesday's poison-laced letter sent to Capitol Hill and the Boston Marathon bombings.
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Tax-free shopping on the Internet could be in jeopardy under a bill making its way through the Senate.
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Air travelers experienced delays at some U.S. airports as staff cuts at control towers took effect, but the havoc and hour-long waits regulators had predicted largely failed to materialize.
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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney says Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will not be treated as an "enemy combatant" in the Boston Marathon bombings case.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will miss the annual Jackson Hole monetary policy symposium this year due to a scheduling conflict, skipping the prestigious event for the first time since taking the helm of the central bank in 2006.
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In a new bill expected on Monday to clear a procedural Senate vote, all online sales would be subject to state sales taxes.
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As the full identities and motives of the suspects unfold, both aisles of the immigration debate are seizing the Boston bombings as an opportunity to revamp U.S. immigration law.
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It was a tough start to the week for many air travelers as federal budget cuts led to cascading delays along the East Coast Monday morning.
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EBay CEO John Donahoe began emailing millions of users of the company's online marketplace in an unprecedented effort to change looming sales tax legislation.
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Demetrios Papademetriou, President and Co-Founder at the Migration Policy Institute, discusses key components of the U.S. immigration reform bill and how they would benefit the U.S.
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Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker told CNBC Thursday that "if you made me dictator" the Federal Reserve would stop its massive bond-buying program.
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Lawmakers told CNBC on Thursday that the question of whether international terrorism was involved in the Boston bombing argues for immigration reform.
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A day after a letter sent to a US senator tested positive for ricin, a letter sent to President Obama has tested positive for the poisonous substance.
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Authorities declined to comment on a suspect or any other aspect of the investigation, but a senator says the person under suspicion writes a lot of letters to Senate members.
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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected a bipartisan plan to expand background checks for gun buyers, dealing a sharp blow to President Barack Obama's campaign to curb gun violence.
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An envelope sent to Republican Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi tested positive for ricin, Senator Dick Durbin told reporters after a group of lawmakers were briefed by the FBI.
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The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration conceded that the agency could have been more vigilant in its oversight of a pharmacy at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak.
