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5/22/2013
In a surprising reversal, the Texas House allowed the clock to run out Tuesday night on Senate Bill 11, an initiative that would have created a drug testing regimen for some welfare benefits.
After a marathon debate and a night of procedural and delay tactics, just hours after it voted to require drug testing for unemployment applicants, the House failed to reach a vote on SB 11 before time ran out on a midnight deadline to approve the bill.
Senate Bill 11, by Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, would have required adults receiving benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to submit to a drug test if their responses to a screening questionnaire indicate possible drug use.
Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2013/05/22/house-gives-early-ok-drug-testing-unemployment/
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5/22/2013
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service official who revealed IRS conservative-group targeting will decline to answer lawmaker questions Wednesday, her attorney said.
Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division on tax-exempt organizations, will plead her Fifth Amendment constitutional right against compulsory self-incrimination and decline to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, attorney William Taylor told the committee in a letter.
The committee's Republican leaders accuse Lerner of lying to them.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/05/22/IRS-official-Lois-Lerner-to-plead-the-Fifth/UPI-75031369204200/#ixzz2U1qFqw2O
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5/22/2013
Voters are concerned about the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative political groups for unfair treatment, and over half think the White House either knew it was happening or -- worse yet -- was actually behind the operation.
That’s according to a Fox News poll released Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/21/fox-news-poll-majority-thinks-white-house-knew-about-irs-actions/#ixzz2U1ps5CUn
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5/22/2013
A Senate committee approved a sweeping immigration reform bill Tuesday that would provide a path to citizenship for up to 11 million illegal immigrants, setting the stage for the full Senate to consider the landmark legislation next month.
After five days of debate over dozens of amendments, the Judiciary Committee voted 13 to 5 in support of the bill, with three Republicans joining the committee’s 10 Democrats. The legislation emerged with its core provisions largely intact, including new visa programs for high-tech and low-skilled workers and new investments in strengthening border control.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-panel-approves-deal-on-foreign-workers/2013/05/21/4ac8cfe4-c228-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html
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5/22/2013
“You and others have said that no one in the White House knew about IRS actions before getting the heads up on the inspector general's report last month,” George Stephanopoulos told senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer on Sunday. “Are you absolutely sure of that?”
“Yes,” Pfeiffer replied.
Do you believe him?
Knowing the consequences that would befall the Obama administration if the White House or Obama’s reelection campaign knew in real time that the IRS was targeting conservatives, I desperately want to believe Pfeiffer. I’ve known him for years. I like him. He’s never lied to me.
But Pfeiffer is part of an institution that has demonstrated an inability and/or unwillingness to tell the full truth about the IRS scandal and a spate of other controversies. The White House can’t be trusted.
Read more: http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/why-you-can-t-trust-the-white-house-even-if-nobody-s-lying-20130521
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5/22/2013
A judge has ruled that a North Texas lesbian couple can't live together because of a morality clause in one of the women's divorce papers.
The clause is common in divorce cases in Texas and other states. It prevents a divorced parent from having a romantic partner spend the night while children are in the home. If the couple marries, they can get out from under the legal provision — but that is not an option for gay couples in Texas, where such marriages aren't recognized.
The Dallas Morning News ( http://dallasne.ws/16MlSUQ ) reported that in a divorce hearing last month for Carolyn and Joshua Compton, Collin County District Judge John Roach Jr. enforced the terms detailed in their 2011 divorce papers. He ordered Carolyn Compton's partner, Page Price, to move out of the home they shared with the Comptons' two daughters, ages 10 and 13. The judge gave Price 30 days to find another place to live.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-judge-lesbian-couple-cohabitate-19229008#.UZzJX5x06cE
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5/21/2013
“For me, it’s about collaboration.” — National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White House
Is President Obama directly implicated in the IRS scandal?
Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun?
The stunning questions are raised by the following set of new facts.
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2013/05/20/obama-and-the-irs-the-smoking
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5/21/2013
A Texas school district waited nearly two years to alert parents to the rape of a young boy on one of their elementary school campuses.
Diana Hamm's grandson was raped twice - once in a bathroom and once in the school gym - by an older boy on the campus of a Clear Creek Independent School District elementary school in Houston. The attacker was convicted of the crimes in juvenile court and he has since returned to a middle school in the same district where the assault happened.
The school district waited until May 7 - after Hamm took her story to the press and even advertised it on the windows of her car - to alert parents of the incident.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328037/Texas-school-district-waited-21-MONTHS-inform-parents-sex-assault-campus-victims-grandmother-advertised-attacks-CAR.html#ixzz2Tw2fdSOq
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5/21/2013
The NorCal Tea Party Patriots is the first group to file a lawsuit against the IRS for the agency’s alleged targeting of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, arguing in the suit that its constitutional rights were violated by the IRS’s “intensive and intrusive scrutiny.”
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Cinncinnati, accuses the IRS of violating the Privacy Act of 1974 and the First and Fifth Amendments.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/05/21/california_tea_party_group_files_first_irs_lawsuit/
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5/21/2013
Even as Apple became the nation’s most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most experts had ever seen, Congressional investigators disclosed on Monday.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/business/apple-avoided-billions-in-taxes-congressional-panel-says.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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