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"The president has always shown a penchant for increasing the size of government and increasing the reach of government," said House Committee on the Budget Chairman Tom Price, Georgia Republican. "It's hard to have a government that isn't as regulatory and prescriptive as the president wants without having more people." (Associated Press)

Obama budget calls for largest federal civilian workforce since Cold War

By S.A. Miller and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Mr. Obama announced the resignation of Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Senate GOP demands Obama turn over all communications with IRS

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senators are worried that Loretta Lynch, who would become the nation's first black female attorney general, has too many similarities to Eric H. Holder Jr., who has had an adversarial relationship with the legislative branch. (Associated Press)

Loretta Lynch similarities to Eric Holder a red flag for Republicans

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

TAMMY BRUCE: Payback from the IRS

By Tammy Bruce

In this Frday, Jan. 9, 2015 photo, three of several commercially available tax guides to help prepare this year's tax return are photographed in Washington. “There’s a lot to look for. It is kind of complicated. This is not easy stuff,” said Barbara Weltman, contributing editor to the tax guide &quot;J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2015.&quot; She said the good news is that most people use a paid preparer or software to do their taxes, and they’ll be walked through the questions that have to be answered for the health insurance section of the tax return. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

LEWIS UHLER AND PETER FERRARA: The rich pay more than their fair share

By Lewis Uhler and Peter Ferrara

President Barack Obama wipes his face with a cloth handed to him by White House Butler Von Everett in the Blue Room of the White House following an event with business leaders in the East Room, Jan. 28, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Obamacare penalty may come as shock at tax time

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation, and Regulatory Affairs hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington in this July 23, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo, File)

IRS warns that budget cuts could shut down operations, delay refunds

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington is seen here on March 22, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

IRS about to get worse, audit says

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The tea party targeting scandal exploded onto front pages in May 2013 after Lois G. Lerner, head of a division charged with scrutinizing applications for tax-exempt status, planted a question at a law forum so she could break news of the activity. (Associated Press)

IRS keeps Albuquerque Tea Party in limbo 5 years after tax-exempt status application

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Atul Amin sells Powerball tickets at his news stand in Philadelphia. The scores of losing players in this week’s $425 million Powerball jackpot did more than take an extremely long shot at getting rich, they also helped fund a small but increasingly important part of their states’ budgets. In all, about $20 billion out of the roughly $70 billion in overall annual lottery revenues is used by states. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

ERNEST ISTOOK: Government does not protect us from lotteries

By Ernest Istook

RICHARD RAHN: Republican Congress sizes up big government bureaucrats

By Richard W. Rahn

In this photo taken Dec. 22, 2014, Ryan Moon of Des Moines, Iowa, stands outside of his apartment in Des Moines, Iowa. The cost of being uninsured in America is going up significantly next year for millions of people as penalties under President Barack Obama’s health care law will double. Moon, a recent college graduate that has not been able to land a permanent job with good benefits, estimates he will have to pay a penalty of more than $90. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Being uninsured in America will cost you more

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press

Christine O'Donnell

Christine O’Donnell, tea party figure, says IRS mistakenly placed levy on bank account

By John Solomon - The Washington Times

Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots (Associated Press)

Message to the IRS from the tea party: ‘We will not be silenced’

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Former Internal Revenue Service official Lois G. Lerner has been at the center of a scandal involving her erased hard drive and missing emails. (Associated Press)

IRS employees biased against conservatives: report

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This June 23, 2014, file photo shows Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen testifying under subpoena before the House Oversight Committee as lawmakers continue to probe whether tea party groups were targeted by the IRS on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

John Koskinen says budget woes will force IRS to cut law enforcement

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: IRS on FOIA lawsuit

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Lois G. Lerner, who was head of the IRS division that scrutinized the tea party applications until she retired while under investigation in 2013, suffered a computer hard drive crash that cost potentially thousands of emails that should have been part of the record. (Associated Press)

IRS tea party targeting decision appealed by True the Vote

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Former Internal Revenue Service official Lois G. Lerner has been at the center of a scandal involving her erased hard drive and missing emails. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s IRS faces scrutiny with Republican-led Congress

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, joined at left by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., wraps up a meeting with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, following a House GOP caucus meeting. With time running short before Congress adjourns, Republicans and Democrats agreed Tuesday on a $1.1 trillion spending bill to avoid a government shutdown and delay a politically-charged struggle over President Barack Obama's new immigration policy until the new year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP scrambles for votes as conservatives, liberals balk at $1.1T spending bill

By Stephen Dinan and S.A. Miller - The Washington Times