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Experts at AARP hearing say questions raise bigger implications about tax code

By | 04.01.11 | 5:13 pm

Two panel experts were called by the health and oversight subcommittees of the House Ways & Means Committee at Friday’s hearing to investigate whether, based on its earnings, structure and business practices, AARP deserves to retain its nonprofit 503(c)4 tax-exempt status.

The GOP witness — William Josephson (PDF), a retired partner More…

Dems say AARP investigation is politically motivated, will reveal nothing

By | 04.01.11 | 3:01 pm

Image by: Matt MahurinReminiscent of New York Rep. Peter King’s recent Homeland Security Committee hearing investigating radical Islam in the Muslim-American community, Friday’s investigation of AARP, called by the oversight and health subcommittees of the House Committee on Ways and Means, have been denounced by Democrats on the committees as a More…

AARP: If Congress wants to take away our nonprofit status, it will have to change tax code

By | 03.31.11 | 5:15 pm

Image by: Matt MahurinAARP, the GOP’s most recent scapegoat, has been preparing its defense strategy against attacks from Republicans that the nonprofit advocacy group for older Americans deserves to have its tax-exempt status stripped.

Obama Promises Tort Reform

By | 09.09.09 | 9:32 pm

Among the many facets of the broad health care reform plan that President Obama offered tonight during a speech before a joint session of Congress was a small but shiny bone for Republicans: tort reform.

“I don’t believe malpractice reform is a silver bullet, but I’ve talked to enough doctors More…

Know Your Birthers

By | 09.09.09 | 12:42 pm

When is it fair to accuse a member of Congress of being a “birther”? I’m wrestling with this a little today. Jason Linkins calls Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.) a “birther” because, in a video shot and edited by The Huffington Post, he said that President Obama’s birth records were More…