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"Without a threat of a government shutdown, this sets up a direct challenge to the president's unilateral actions on immigration when we have new majorities in both chambers of Congress," House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio told reporters after meeting in a closed-door session with his Republican caucus on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers face a midnight deadline to pass a budget. (Associated Press photographs)

Spending bill: Government shutdown looms as congressional leaders court centrists

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

Illustration on the need to reform IRS by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

PAT ROBERTS: IRS targeting, missing emails investigation not over

By Pat Roberts

President Barack Obama reads a document while en route to Pittsburgh International Airport in Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 11, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

IRS accused of sharing 2,500 private taxpayer documents with White House

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2009, file photo shows the Treasury Building in Washington. The Washington Times reports that the IRS regularly lends — a nice way of saying "rents" — government workers to the National Treasury Employees Union. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

EDITORIAL: Government workers do unions business on taxpayer dime

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said in an email to employees that bonuses were an appropriate way for taxpayers to reward the agency that polices them. "I believe that rewarding our high-performing employees is a vital investment for our nation's tax system," he said. (Associated Press)

IRS paying millions in bonuses to employees who are tax scofflaws

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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

Prisoners get millions in bogus tax refunds

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. The agency has been under fire for what critics say are politically motivated attacks against conservative organizations. (Associated Press)

IRS inspector general to release files on privacy probe

By Stephen Dinan - 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)

Lois Lerner emails — as many as 30,000 — may have been found, investigators say

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, to hear a new challenge to President Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

ERNEST ISTOOK: Supreme Court can stop Obamacare subsidy deceit

By Ernest Istook

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, to hear a new challenge to President Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Supreme Court takes Obamacare case on tax credits for state health care exchanges

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Raoul Weil, former top executive at Swiss bank UBS AG, leaves federal court for a lunch break with his wife Susan Lerch Weil, right, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Monday, Nov. 2, 2014. Weil is on trial for allegedly conspiring with thousands of wealthy Americans to conceal some $20 billion in assets from the Internal Revenue Service. After the prosecution rested last week, lawyers for Raoul Weil asked a judge to acquit him, contending the U.S. has not proved him guilty of any crime.(AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Jury deliberating in tax trial of ex-UBS exec

By Curt Anderson - Associated Press

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

Pastors openly defying IRS, endorsing candidates

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

IRS Agent Confiscating Bank Account Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

MERRY: Governmental piracy by IRS

By Robert W. Merry

The Washington Times first disclosed the criminal charges against Carl Sheerer in August, which came months after IRS Commissioner John Koskinen issued a memo to agency employees describing the data breach. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

IRS employee not guilty of inadvertent disclosures

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

FILE - This Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, file photo, shows a copy of Thomas Eric Duncan's medical records from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, provided by Duncan&#8217;s family to The Associated Press. Duncan's records show that for days after he was admitted for Ebola, his caregivers were vulnerable to the deadly virus. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) **FILE**

CHRISTINE O’DONNELL: Health insurance records and medical records are the same thing

By Christine O’Donnell

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, file photo, Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker speaks at the Republican National Committee summer meetings in Chicago. Court documents released Friday, Aug. 22, 2014, show that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's recall election campaign team told him to instruct donors to give to Wisconsin Club for Growth, which would run ads for Walker and distribute money to other conservative groups backing him. The emails were part of some 1,300 pages released by a federal appeals court from a secret investigation into whether Walker's recall campaign illegally coordinated with conservative groups. (AP Photo/Kamil Krzaczynski, File)

Liberal group: Conservatives violated IRS rules

Associated Press

IRS Extinguishes Liberty Torch Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

RICHARD W. RAHN: Either liberty or the IRS

By Richard W. Rahn

(AP Photo/File)

CHRISTINE O’DONNELL: Obamacare makes medical records vulnerable to criminal, sex offenders

By Christine O’Donnell

This Sept. 15, 2014, file photo shows part of the HealthCare,gov sebsite in Washington. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Treasury IG: IRS needs to tighten up security before releasing tax data to Obamacare exchange

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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

Federal judge tosses tea party suit seeking permanent protection from IRS targeting

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times