WASHINGTON -- In a rebuke to House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) has released the full transcript of a key interview with an IRS employee at the heart of the agency's scandal.

The 200-page transcript sheds additional light on the decision by the IRS to...

WASHINGTON -- Predicting the outcome of Supreme Court decisions is a bit of a fool's errand, as most people who tried to do so before last year's ruling on the Affordable Care Act can attest. But if anyone has a good sense for how the nine justices will rule, it's...

WASHINGTON -- Working to maintain gun policy reform's place in the political conversation, Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday will urge Congress to act on the White House slate of proposals.

It's unclear whether Biden will explicitly call for a vote on expanded background checks, the centerpiece of those...

WASHINGTON -- Working to maintain gun policy reform's place in the political conversation, Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday will urge Congress to act on the White House slate of proposals.

It's unclear whether Biden will explicitly call for a vote on expanded background checks, the centerpiece of those...

WASHINGTON -- Giving little relief to those skeptical of U.S. involvement in Syria’s civil war, President Barack Obama on Monday said he understands the dangers of mission creep and was determined to avoid them.

Obama, in a taped interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose, defended his decision to provide weaponry...

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has continued to release only select portions of committee interviews with key Internal Revenue Service staffers despite calls to make the full transcripts public.

In recent days, the California Republican has allowed reporters from...

Midway through Wednesday's Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on cyber security, Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) turned the conversation to the budget cuts that threaten the intelligence community.

"My staff inform me that last week we received a notice, our committee received a notice, that about half of NSA personnel in...

WASHINGTON -- Towards the end of his hearing Wednesday on cyber threats and the intelligence community’s surveillance efforts, Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the National Security Agency, was asked if he’d support making public the legal decisions justifying some of those surveillance programs.

“Do you support the...

WASHINGTON -- Joining the list of former Obama officials trying their hand in the political consulting world, two of the president’s former top advisers are launching their own communications firm.

Robert Gibbs, the president’s former press secretary, and Ben LaBolt, the press secretary for President Barack Obama's...

WASHINGTON -- One week after he released partial transcripts of interviews with IRS officials involved in the scandal surrounding the targeting of conservative groups, the chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said releasing the full transcripts would be "reckless" and "irresponsible."

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) pushed...

WASHINGTON -- Unable to move gun reform legislation through Congress, advocates are turning to video-game makers in a new campaign to persuade them to stop doing business with firearms manufacturers.

The campaign, spearheaded by the groups Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and the Gun Truth Project,...

WASHINGTON -- As the U.S. government has ramped up its surveillance programs in the years since 9/11, telecommunications companies have spent millions of dollars lobbying Congress to ensure legislation is molded to their liking.

From 2002 through 2012, officials and organizations associated with the three largest U.S. telecom companies...

WASHINGTON -- As efforts to comprehensively reform the nation’s immigration system near the first of several likely Senate votes, behind-the-scenes political machinations are becomming increasingly dramatic.

The bill put together by the bipartisan “gang of eight” faces its first test Tuesday afternoon in the form of a cloture vote,...

WASHINGTON -- Obama administration officials held 22 separate briefings or meetings for members of Congress on the law that has been used to justify the National Security Agency's controversial email monitoring program, according to data provided by a senior administration official.

According to the official, the sessions that took...

WASHINGTON -- Revelations of massive data mining by the National Security Agency have prompted a blame game between the White House and Congress over how much responsibility each has for the program.

President Barack Obama on Friday defended his administration’s broad surveillance operations by arguing that checks and balances...

WASHINGTON -- A massive email surveillance program run by the National Security Agency is not directed at Americans and is legally permissible and highly useful for anti-terror operation, a senior administration official said in a statement Thursday night.

The statement, provided on condition of anonymity, came hours after news...

WASHINGTON -- Reports that the National Security Agency is collecting the phone logs of millions of U.S. Verizon customers may have hit with a boom Wednesday night, prompting concerns of government overreach and infringements on civil liberties -- but don't expect Congress to do anything about it.

On...

WASHINGTON -- The federal government does not have the power to stop federal budget sequestration cuts to cancer treatments for certain Medicare patients, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has told Congress.

The declaration, in a June 3 letter from the federal agency to Congress and obtained by The...

WASHINGTON -- The National Institutes of Health released an updated projection of the cuts it must make to deal with spending reductions put in place by sequestration, and the picture isn't pretty.

While the National Cancer Institute received $5.06 billion in FY 2012, it is budgeted...

WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service, already under heavy fire, was subjected to another wave of outrage on Tuesday with the release of a Treasury Inspector General report showing it had spent close to $50 million on 225 employee conferences from 2010 through 2012.

Fifty. Million. Hard-Earned. Taxpayer....