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Former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli, center, leaves court with his lawyer Benjamin Brafman, left, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, in New York. Shkreli, who has become the poster child of pharmaceutical-industry greed after hiking the price of an anti-infection drug by more than 5,000 percent, is scheduled to appear at a congressional hearing on Thursday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Martin Shkreli, ‘pharma bro,’ rebuffs Congress through silence

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Reps. Elijah Cummings (left), Maryland Democrat, and Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican, talk Sept. 30 before Secret Service Director Julia Pierson, former Secret Service Director W. Ralph Basham and former Assistant Homeland Security Secretary for Infrastructure Protection Todd Keil testify in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill about a recent White House perimeter breach. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Rep. Cummings: ‘Something is awfully wrong’ with the Secret Service

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. listens to testimony regarding social security and disability benefits, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Four Social Security judges are facing accusations they rubber-stamped claims for disability benefits, approving billions of dollars in payments from the cash-strapped program. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

House panel probes problems at chemical safety board

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 22, 2013, file photo, then-IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Oversight Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny IRS gave to tea party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. The House is preparing to vote May 7, on holding Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify at a pair of committee hearings about her role in the agency's tea party controversy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

House votes to hold ex-IRS official in contempt

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER - Associated Press

Ex-agency head: I won’t testify before lawmakers

By ERIKA NIEDOWSKI - Associated Press

** FILE ** Rep. Elijah Cummings, Maryland Democrat. (Associated Press)

IRS employees deny tea party bias

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

MacBeth wants subpoenas for 38 Studios testimony

By ERIKA NIEDOWSKI - Associated Press

Cummings says Issa apologized and he accepts

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER - Associated Press

Former IRS official refuses to testify at hearing

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER - Associated Press

The attorney for former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner says his client will continue to assert her rights not to testify about the IRS targeting of conservative groups. (Associated Press)

Lawyer for IRS official denies Issa claim client will testify

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Illustration Libya by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Obama’s deadly oversight

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times