http://news.yahoo.com/rss-moody/ en-US Copyright (c) 2013 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:54:06 -0400 5 http://news.yahoo.com/rss-moody/ http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif In the midst of negotiations in Congress over an immigration overhaul, House Republicans are planning a series of meetings with Hispanic-Americans in the nation's capital as part of a partywide effort to woo minority voters. The House Republican Conference, chaired by Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, is planning four meetup sessions between Hispanic-Americans and Republican [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/house-gop-host-meet-ups-hispanic-voters-d-145406951.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:54:06 -0400blogs/ticket/house-gop-host-meet-ups-hispanic-voters-d-145406951The National Republican Senatorial Committee plans to use the special Senate election in Massachusetts later this month as a testing ground for a new Get-Out-The-Vote app on Facebook that will make it easier for supporters to target friends who live in the state and encourage them to go to the polls. The race pits Republican [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gop-senate-group-testing-campaign-facebook-app-massachusetts-135854001.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:58:54 -0400blogs/ticket/gop-senate-group-testing-campaign-facebook-app-massachusetts-135854001American taxpayers are paying for a "war on Christianity" at home and abroad, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said during a speech at a conservative conference Thursday. "There is a war on Christianity," Paul told an audience of mostly evangelical Christians and Jews during a luncheon at the annual Faith and Freedom Conference in Washington. [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rand-paul-says-u-taxpayers-funding-war-christianity-185908146.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:59:08 -0400blogs/ticket/rand-paul-says-u-taxpayers-funding-war-christianity-185908146Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a co-author and key proponent of the Senate immigration bill, said he will revoke his support if an amendment is added that allows gay Americans to petition for same-sex spouses living abroad to secure a green card. "If this bill has in it something that gives gay couples immigration rights [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rubio-m-done-immigration-bill-includes-gay-couple-160223193.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:02:23 -0400blogs/ticket/rubio-m-done-immigration-bill-includes-gay-couple-160223193A bipartisan group of lawmakers next week will honor Frederick Douglass, the early civil rights leader, orator and writer who escaped slavery in 1838, with a statue in the U.S. Capitol. A gift of the District of Columbia, the statue will be placed in Emancipation Hall of the Capitol Visitors Center on Wednesday, June 19. [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/frederick-douglass-honored-congress-statue-141038389.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:10:38 -0400blogs/ticket/frederick-douglass-honored-congress-statue-141038389Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn is demanding details from the Department of Justice about the agency's spending on, among other things, employee conferences under sequestration. In a letter obtained by Yahoo News that was sent to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday, Coburn pointed to the DOJ's history of spending on conferences over the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/coburn-questions-doj-conference-spending-under-sequestration-215528534.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:55:28 -0400blogs/ticket/coburn-questions-doj-conference-spending-under-sequestration-215528534Earlier this year, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul warned lawmakers not to trip over loaded phrases like "pathway to citizenship" and "amnesty" to describe the effort to overhaul immigration. Doing so, Paul said, would polarize the debate over reform—and he was right. Not surprisingly, opponents of the immigration bill regularly refer to it as an [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/paul-ryan-debate-anybody-says-immigration-bill-amnesty-195916824.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:59:16 -0400blogs/ticket/paul-ryan-debate-anybody-says-immigration-bill-amnesty-195916824Sen. Lindsey Graham would propose censoring Americans' "snail" mail if he thought it would help protect national security, the South Carolina Republican said Tuesday. But for now, he says he doesn't think it's necessary. Faced with questions about the disclosure that the National Security Agency has been collecting phone and email records of citizens, Graham [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/lindsey-graham-thought-censoring-mail-necessary-suggest-182932835.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:29:32 -0400blogs/ticket/lindsey-graham-thought-censoring-mail-necessary-suggest-182932835The Senate is expected to proceed toward a bill that would overhaul the nation's immigration system Tuesday, overcoming an early hurdle for what is expected to be a monthslong process. The chamber will take up a procedural vote that allows senators to begin voting on amendments to the immigration bill, crafted by the bipartisan Gang [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/immigration-bill-expected-overcome-early-hurdles-senate-163001150.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:30:01 -0400blogs/ticket/immigration-bill-expected-overcome-early-hurdles-senate-163001150House committees will soon begin a series of "serious" investigation into the former security contractor who leaked secret information about the National Security Agency's surveillance program, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said on Monday. During an interview on CBS' "This Morning," Cantor said there was still much unknown about the legality involving how 29-year-old former [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/cantor-says-house-investigate-edward-snowden-over-leaks-155543898.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:55:43 -0400blogs/ticket/cantor-says-house-investigate-edward-snowden-over-leaks-155543898Crossroads GPS, an advocacy group backed by Karl Rove, former senior adviser to George W. Bush, is launching a $100,000 ad campaign urging conservatives to support an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws. The full-page print ad is signed by 53 business leaders and Republicans, including former Republican National Committee Chairman Edward Gillespie, former Florida [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/karl-rove-backed-crossroads-gps-runs-pro-immigration-145420109.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:54:20 -0400blogs/ticket/karl-rove-backed-crossroads-gps-runs-pro-immigration-145420109Two Senate Republicans viewed as likely 2016 presidential contenders are scheduled to address GOP loyalists in Iowa and New Hampshire this summer. The two states traditionally kick off the first presidential electoral contests—Iowa hosts party caucuses, and New Hampshire typically follows with the first primary. The Iowa State Republican Party announced Friday that Texas Sen. [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/ted-cruz-heads-iowa-rob-portman-speak-hampshire-194011558.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:40:11 -0400blogs/ticket/ted-cruz-heads-iowa-rob-portman-speak-hampshire-194011558Kentucky Democrats may not have a candidate to run against Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, but at least they know that they don't like him. Take this comment made by Kentucky Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth at the Jefferson County party's annual Wendell Ford Dinner on Thursday night. “I can be really brief [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/kentucky-democrat-mitch-mcconnell-sucks-182212550.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:22:12 -0400blogs/ticket/kentucky-democrat-mitch-mcconnell-sucks-182212550The Senate will vote on an overhaul of the nation's immigration system before the Fourth of July, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Friday. On Thursday, Reid set in motion the lengthy process required to bring a bill to the Senate floor, giving lawmakers an opportunity to debate the issue this morning. Speaking from the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/senate-vote-immigration-bill-fourth-july-reid-154736845.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:47:36 -0400blogs/ticket/senate-vote-immigration-bill-fourth-july-reid-154736845His name is Faris Fink and, in real life, he's in charge of the Small Business and Self-Employed Division of the Internal Revenue Service. But to most Americans following the recent saga of the IRS, he's just "Mister Spock." Fink played a starring role in a "Star Trek" parody video that was played at the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/irs-spock-faces-questions-lawmakers-embarrassing-170730196.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:07:30 -0400blogs/ticket/irs-spock-faces-questions-lawmakers-embarrassing-170730196A comprehensive immigration reform bill that includes a path to citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally is "highly unlikely" to pass the Republican-majority House of Representatives, Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price, the vice chair of the House Budget Committee, said. During a Christian Science Monitor breakfast meeting Wednesday, a reporter asked Price if [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/path-citizenship-highly-unlikely-pass-house-rep-tom-160539373.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:05:39 -0400blogs/ticket/path-citizenship-highly-unlikely-pass-house-rep-tom-160539373Leaders from conservative and tea party groups told a congressional panel that the Internal Revenue Service's methods of vetting organizations seeking nonprofit status discouraged supporters from donating to their causes. Representatives from six organizations appeared before members of the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday to discuss their interactions with the IRS, a government [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/conservative-groups-irs-practices-hurt-ability-raise-money-185429718.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:54:29 -0400blogs/ticket/conservative-groups-irs-practices-hurt-ability-raise-money-185429718The newly appointed acting head of the Internal Revenue Service said Monday that the agency does not need more money to carry out the responsibility of processing applications for tax-exempt status, despite calls during the hearing for increased funding to help the embattled agency's workload. “The solution here is not more money,” IRS acting Commissioner [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/acting-head-irs-says-agency-does-not-more-210618673.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:06:18 -0400blogs/ticket/acting-head-irs-says-agency-does-not-more-210618673It will take a lot more than Facebook and Kid Rock to get young people on the Republican bandwagon. In the months since the 2012 presidential election, Republicans have acknowledged they have their work cut out for them in winning millennials—the generational tag given to those born between 1980 and 2000. On Monday, the College [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/report-college-republicans-details-ways-capture-youth-vote-192412832.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:24:12 -0400blogs/ticket/report-college-republicans-details-ways-capture-youth-vote-192412832Earlier this month, while planning a press conference with other lawmakers and tea party leaders in response to the Internal Revenue Service's unfair targeting of conservatives, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann told Tea Party Patriots national coordinator Jenny Beth Martin that she longed to travel and speak to tea party groups more often than she had [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/michele-bachmann-departure-came-surprise-tea-party-organizers-171413266.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Fri, 31 May 2013 13:14:13 -0400blogs/ticket/michele-bachmann-departure-came-surprise-tea-party-organizers-171413266The ongoing saga of the Republican effort to woo minority voters continues this week with an announcement that one party group plans to spend $6 million this election cycle to recruit and support female and minority candidates at the state level. The effort is a continuation of the Republican State Leadership Committee's Future Majority Project, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/republican-group-aggressively-seeking-minorty-candidates-run-2014-170713001.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Thu, 30 May 2013 13:07:13 -0400blogs/ticket/republican-group-aggressively-seeking-minorty-candidates-run-2014-170713001COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Democratic state Sen. Vincent Sheheen, who is planning to challenge Republican Gov. Nikki Haley in 2014, says he wants nothing to do with Washington—but not in quite the same way Haley does. "I don't keep up with what's going on nationally," Sheheen told Yahoo News in an interview earlier this [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/democrat-seeks-topple-nikki-haley-without-sounding-too-094026759.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Wed, 29 May 2013 05:40:26 -0400blogs/ticket/democrat-seeks-topple-nikki-haley-without-sounding-too-094026759A House Republican group is launching an ad campaign against four incumbent Democrats this week that aims to tie the lawmakers to the Internal Revenue Service, a government agency under scrutiny after officials admitted earlier this month to targeting conservative groups applying for nonprofit status. The National Republican Congressional Committee will dispatch trucks to drive [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/embattled-irs-makes-debut-house-gop-attack-ads-112054152.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Mon, 27 May 2013 07:20:54 -0400blogs/ticket/embattled-irs-makes-debut-house-gop-attack-ads-112054152Terry McAuliffe, a Democratic operative embroiled in a tight race to become Virginia's next governor, knows a thing or two about conservatives like his Republican opponent, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. That's in part because his older brother, Joseph McAuliffe, spent two decades as a Republican activist who worked for the evangelical leader Pat Robertson's [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/terry-mcauliffe-brother-once-abortion-clinic-protesting-conservative-100850620.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Fri, 24 May 2013 08:20:06 -0400blogs/ticket/terry-mcauliffe-brother-once-abortion-clinic-protesting-conservative-100850620So you're considering college but don't have the dough. Or maybe you're out of college now and still don't have any dough. You're not alone: In the past 30 years, the cost of a college degree has risen 1,120 percent and the number of people taking out loans to pay for it has skyrocketed. The [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/10-things-washington-could-college-more-affordable-093926557.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Thu, 23 May 2013 05:39:26 -0400blogs/lookout/10-things-washington-could-college-more-affordable-093926557Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official in charge of approving applications for tax-exempt status, denied wrongdoing in response to accusations that the IRS targeted conservative organizations seeking nonprofit status for heavier scrutiny between 2010 and 2012. "I have not done anything wrong," Lerner told the House Oversight Committee during a hearing about the IRS' [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/irs-official-lois-lerner-not-done-anything-wrong-153037583.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Wed, 22 May 2013 11:30:37 -0400blogs/ticket/irs-official-lois-lerner-not-done-anything-wrong-153037583Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner, who leads the exempt organizations division under scrutiny for targeting conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status, is refusing to testify before Congress, the Los Angeles Times reports. Lerner was supposed to appear before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday. The Times reports that Lerner's attorney, William W. Taylor III, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/irs-official-lerner-refuses-testify-congress-210326599.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Tue, 21 May 2013 17:03:26 -0400blogs/ticket/irs-official-lerner-refuses-testify-congress-210326599Former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman said that he was "not personally responsible" for the agency's practice of placing elevated scrutiny on conservative groups that applied for nonprofit status, but that he regrets it occurred during his tenure. "I certainly am not personally responsible for creating a list that had inappropriate criteria on it. [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/former-irs-commissioner-not-personally-responsible-targeting-conservative-164324385.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Tue, 21 May 2013 12:43:24 -0400blogs/ticket/former-irs-commissioner-not-personally-responsible-targeting-conservative-164324385Two top Internal Revenue Service officials knew that the agency was using a list to scrutinize applications for tax-exempt status that included the phrase "tea party" as early as the spring of 2012, but did not tell lawmakers until this year. Former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman and outgoing Commissioner Steven Miller told the Senate Finance [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/senator-accuses-irs-officials-withholding-information-2012-agency-154929004.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Tue, 21 May 2013 11:49:29 -0400blogs/ticket/senator-accuses-irs-officials-withholding-information-2012-agency-154929004The Republican Party is actively working to recruit more women to run for public office, but they still face "institutional barriers" to getting involved in GOP politics at the ground level, Republican State Leadership Committee President Chris Jankowski said on Monday. As part of the RSLC's Right Women Right Now project, the organization, which specializes [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gop-official-still-institutional-barriers-republican-women-running-205021143.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Mon, 20 May 2013 16:50:21 -0400blogs/ticket/gop-official-still-institutional-barriers-republican-women-running-205021143While applying with the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status in 2009, an Iowa-based anti-abortion group was asked to provide information about its members' prayer meetings, documents sent by an IRS official to the organization reveal. On June 22, 2009, the Coalition for Life of Iowa received a letter from the IRS office in Cincinnati, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/irs-conservative-group-2009-members-pray-193833144.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Fri, 17 May 2013 15:38:33 -0400blogs/ticket/irs-conservative-group-2009-members-pray-193833144Outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller apologized Friday on behalf of the federal tax collection agency for unfairly targeting conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. But Miller insisted the practice was "absolutely not illegal." The IRS is under fire for placing heavier scrutiny on organizations with words like "tea party" or "patriots" in their name when [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/irs-commissioner-says-partisanship-not-involved-agency-behavior-134141319.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Fri, 17 May 2013 09:41:41 -0400blogs/ticket/irs-commissioner-says-partisanship-not-involved-agency-behavior-134141319In what has become an annual tradition, the Republican-led House of Representatives on Thursday voted again to fully repeal the federal health care law passed by Democrats and signed by President Barack Obama in 2010. The House first voted for full repeal in January 2011 when Republicans took control of the chamber, and again in [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/house-republicans-repealing-obamacare-annual-tradition-222826899.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Thu, 16 May 2013 18:28:26 -0400blogs/ticket/house-republicans-repealing-obamacare-annual-tradition-222826899House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi accused Republicans of using the alleged scandals involving the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Justice and the State Department as an "evasion" from passing bills she said would increase job growth. Over the past few weeks, the IRS admitted to targeting conservative groups applying for nonprofit status and the Department [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/pelosi-gop-using-irs-benghazi-doj-issues-evasion-173845377.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Thu, 16 May 2013 13:38:45 -0400blogs/ticket/pelosi-gop-using-irs-benghazi-doj-issues-evasion-173845377In May 2011, Drew Ryun, a conservative activist and former Republican National Committee staffer, began filling out the Internal Revenue Service application to achieve nonprofit status for a new conservative watchdog group. He submitted the paperwork to the IRS in July 2011 for a research site called Media Trackers, which calls itself a "non-partisan investigative [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/conservative-activist-green-name-gets-irs-stamp-approval-193457897.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Wed, 15 May 2013 15:34:57 -0400blogs/ticket/conservative-activist-green-name-gets-irs-stamp-approval-193457897House Democrats will begin making robocalls to voters in 10 congressional districts Wednesday that target Republican lawmakers who support a new effort to repeal the 2010 federal health care law. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is paying for the calls, which according to a script obtained by Yahoo News, will warn voters that Republicans support [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/democrats-launch-robocall-effort-against-house-members-support-113353692.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Wed, 15 May 2013 07:33:53 -0400blogs/ticket/democrats-launch-robocall-effort-against-house-members-support-113353692This screen shot is taken from an official review of the Internal Revenue Service's practices for determining which groups were eligible for tax-exempt status between 2010 and 2012. The report, written by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and obtained by Yahoo News on Tuesday, details missteps the IRS took in targeting certain political [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/tea-party-group-got-added-irs-look-list-221015152.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Tue, 14 May 2013 18:10:15 -0400blogs/ticket/tea-party-group-got-added-irs-look-list-221015152While the White House remains quiet about whether the Justice Department was right to seize the phone records of Associated Press reporters, on Capitol Hill the top Democrat in the Senate was unequivocal about his opposition. In his weekly press briefing on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., blasted the DOJ for its behavior, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/top-senate-democrat-doj-action-against-ap-inexcusable-204546359.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Tue, 14 May 2013 16:45:46 -0400blogs/ticket/top-senate-democrat-doj-action-against-ap-inexcusable-204546359With the rumbling of so much scandal ripping through Washington this week—woeful stories about Benghazi, the DOJ subpoena of journalists' phone records and the IRS unfairly targeting conservative groups—it's hard to keep track of all the terrible. Even lawmakers sometimes struggle. At Rep. Steny Hoyer's weekly meeting with reporters on Tuesday, the Maryland Democrat was [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/scandal-plagued-washington-lawmaker-struggles-keep-track-issues-175311063.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Tue, 14 May 2013 13:53:11 -0400blogs/ticket/scandal-plagued-washington-lawmaker-struggles-keep-track-issues-175311063The House Ways and Means Committee has scheduled a formal hearing Friday to probe the Internal Revenue Service for placing heavier scrutiny on conservative groups that applied for nonprofit status between 2010 and 2012. IRS Commissioner Steve Miller and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George are expected to testify Friday morning during [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/house-panel-formally-irs-commissioner-friday-204016469.html?.tsrc=sun?date=10410101Mon, 13 May 2013 16:40:16 -0400blogs/ticket/house-panel-formally-irs-commissioner-friday-204016469