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Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan on Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Friday, May 17, 2013
One day after he held a joint press conference with President Obama at the White House’s Rose Garden in the Washington spring rain, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was hosted by The Brookings Institution for a discussion on “The AK Party’s Role in the Evolution of Turkey.” Erdogan also attended a State Department luncheon in his honor on Thursday ...
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House Holds Hearing on IRS Scandal
Friday, May 17, 2013
The House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing on Friday to examine accusations that the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on their political leanings. Former Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George, will be the only witnesses at the hearing. Last week, an official ...
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Hearing on IRS Matter Scheduled for Tomorrow
Thursday, May 16, 2013
The House Ways and Means Committee will hear from Steven Miller, who was the acting Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner before being asked to resign by President Obama on Wednesday, as well as the IRS inspector general, Russell George, on Friday in what is sure to be the first of multiple hearings investigating the IRS admission last week that it ...
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Breakfast (and lunch!) is on FNS – May 21 Open House
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The go-to source for federal transcripts, legislative and regulatory tracking, media monitoring, and translation services. Join us at our Open House! Looking for options for transcripts coverage? Want the advantage of custom requests for what you wish was covered? Want to make your events more valuable? Tired of sifting through proposed federal regulations to assess the impact on existing ...
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FNS State of the Union Response Archive
Monday, February 11, 2013
The tradition of a State of the Union response by the opposition party to the president originated in 1966. The first such response, in answer to Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson’s address that year, was given by two famous Republican Party names: Senator Everett Dirksen (R-IL) and Representative Gerald Ford (R-MI). Senator Dirksen was the minority leader for the Republicans ...
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FNS State of the Union Address Archive
Monday, February 11, 2013
The State of the Union address, mandated by the U.S. Constitution (“[The president] shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient”), has taken different forms over the history of the United States. President George Washington began the tradition by ...
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The Odd Case of the Planted IRS Question
Friday, May 17, 2013
Over at The Wall Street Journal: One of the more interesting moments at the House Ways and Means hearing Friday was when several congressmen tried to unravel how the news of the IRS targeting of conservative groups came to be announced – and why lawmakers didn’t find out first. Read the full Tim Hanrahan article HERE
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Witness Hicks: How the Benghazi Attack Unfolded
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The Wall Street Journal writes: Gregory Hicks, the former deputy chief of mission in Libya, on Wednesday testified to a House committee about the night of the attacks at the Benghazi facility and how the U.S. reacted. Mr. Hicks had previously told investigators that the U.S. might have prevented the night’s second deadly attack if the military had been able to ...
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CFR President Introduces New Book on Foreign Policy
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) President Richard Haass has written a new book on foreign policy entitled Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America’s House in Order. From CFR’s overview: The biggest threat to the United States comes not from abroad but from within. This is the unexpected message of Council on Foreign Relations President Richard N. ...
