so what the i.r.s. has said, we're going to paper over the fact that congress never explicitly authorized tax dollars to subsidize the federal exchanges, even though the law clearly states that those subsidies can be issued only through the state exchanges. another example of lawlessness when it comes to obamacare. in other words, the agencie ages already shown utter contempt to the rule of law when it comes to implementing the president's most cherished accomplishment, they have already shown that contempt, and they don't deserve, nor have they shown themselves worthy of our confidence when it comes to implementing this health care law. in my view, the i.r.s. has absolutely no business playing such a huge role in the american health care system. for that market i'd ask my friends on the other side of the aisle one final question: do you still believe that obamacare will reduce health care costs? after all, it's estimated that the law will cause a dramatic spike in individual insurance premiums across th

blocking the i.r.s. from implementing provisions of the affordable care act does nothing to help our nation's small businesses. rather, today's bill will keep small employers from taking advantage of the small business health care tax credit which has already helped over 360,000 small employersed on two million workers. this bill prevents these businesses from utilizing the 50% tax credit in the new exchanges next year. that is why today's vote is irresponsible and out of touch with americans' experience. we must continue to ensure quality health coverage is available and utilized by the businesses that are the cornerstone of the american economy. i urge members to vote no. thank you and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back her time. the gentleman from georgia. mr. price: i continue toe. the speaker pro tempore: the to gentleman reserves. the gentleman from michigan. mr. he venn: it is now my special privilege to yield one minute to the person who led ou

the i.r.s. is having furlough days for heaven's sakes. i don't know any business that lays off its accounts receivable, undercutting the information, having interm nibble hearings, dragging thoughtful men and women who would like to be out doing their job implementing the law on pointless exercises to repeal a law that is not going to be repealed and thus making it hard tore have a smooth implementation, harder to give people the information, harder to work out the glitches. nobody would have designed the bill the way it is. it's a b-. but because of a complete collapse of the legislative process in the senate, we had to do it through reconciliation and ever since there has been this assault on its implementation. that is sad and unfortunate. it shortchanges men and women around the country who would like to take advantage of the provisions. and as i will illustrate from the information i'm submitting to the record from oregon there are some real advantages here. it's going to be fascinating watc

." ♪ ♪ >> uma: the i.r.s. , just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, news that one woman at the center of the scandal gets a promotion. and it comes as the agency gets blasted for now targeting small businesses. tea party attack. republican congressmen comes under fire for not promising to vote to keep obamacare at any cost. the problem is, he has voted against it a dozen times now. we will ask him what it feels like to go against many folks in his own party. a fabulous milestone for nasa. brand new pictures from the mars rover. one year after it lands on the red planet. those photos are simply amazing. all that and while the president's new nsa reform are coming under fire from both sides of the aisle. hello. i'm uma pemmaraju. america's news headquarters live from the nation's capitol starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> uma: we begin with the newscast with news of a developing story, information on that massive manhunt underway in idaho. this, after amber alerts across the west coast are raising new concerns for

the i.r.s. at this point. that conclusion is that it trusted now. mentioned, the i.r.s. has targeted groups that asking for i.r.s. tax exempt status for their political ideology. they have leaked donor information to those groups. and i think lieve it will come out the i.r.s. has targeted donors to those groups to those individual americans. mr. speaker, this is chilling internal rom the revenue service. the american people have lost he ir favorite and trust in t intern internal revenue service. this is a simple piece of legislation. that pages. all it says is what the american people believe is that the i.r.s. shouldn't be charged and have the authority to either the ment or enforce affordable care act. over 140 co-sponsors from this i want representatives to commend them for being co-sponsors. e have hundreds of citizen co-sponsors from crass -- across the country. say this is not necessary. that it is not going to accomplish anything, there is no i.r.s. would want that information anyway. the

that's the case with i.r.s. official lois lerner who took the fifth amendment in testifying before congress. she's now on paid leave while congress continues the agency's misconduct investigation. the employee accountability act, introduced by my friend, mike kelley from pennsylvania, will place employees on unpaid leave while they are under investigation for serious offenses. mr. speaker, i'm proud of the work the house is doing on behalf of the american people. we're sending a strong message to the obama administration, enough is enough, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. with that the chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota, mr. ellison, for five minutes. mr. ellison: thank you, mr. speaker, for the recognition. i want to talk today about important issues involving climate change going on all over america, all over this world. but today i want to talk about our urban communities. global warming, in fact, is expected to increase to frequency, intensity of natural disaste

. >> woodruff: then, the i.r.s. announced it will recognize all legally married same-sex couples, regardless of what state they live in. we examine the impact of this shift in federal tax law. >> brown: the n.f.l. agreed to pay $765 million to former players for concussion-related brain injuries. we get the details of the proposed settlement. >> woodruff: it's back to school time, but a number of communities face classrooms that are failing their students. we have a report on the important role principals play in education reform. >> brown: and we continue our look at the legacy of the march on washington 50 years on. tonight, reflections on the challenges ahead for martin luther king's vision for a multi-racial democracy. >> 40% of whites don't have friends outside of their own race. so in some ways we're still as segregated as we were 50 years ago and i think that king would be very concerned about that. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided b

to fulfill their law the obama you know the i.r.s. works for the executive branch i think the obama administration is going to push them to do it in the hope of course not you know quick here it is this is such a political hot bed churches should not have this tax right to begin with taxpayers pay for it it's there's no real reason for it why are we subsidizing churches my pap and tony oh well said thanks a lot for being with us tonight thank you for. coming up what's the libertarian plan for stopping pollution and saving the future of planet earth i'll ask austin peterson after the break. looking for every document in the field that we won't find it here if you're looking for relevant stories unique perspective from top class scans are easy. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figur

i rise today to support the keep the i.r.s. ur health care act and i want to congratulate the leadership for bringing this bill to the floor, not only a timely bill but essential to the health and well-being of all americans. in response to the assertions of the prior gentleman that spoke from new jersey i would simply say those scare tactics do not have a place in legitimate debate on this floor. scare tactics to say that somehow republicans on our side of the aisle don't care about people's health care are just not true. you know, we don't believe in omnibus washington-engineered health care. that's what's going on here. washington bureaucrats deciding what kind of health care you can have, which doctors you can see, how much those doctors and hospitals are going to get paid, how the insurance companies have to act. all of that is in the hands of washington bureaucrats under obama care, which is why this bill and this law is suffering so much in terms of the minds of the public. this is not the right way to go. we believe in p

the the essence of the lawsuit is to force the i.r.s. to fulfill their law the obama you know the the i.r.s. works for the executive branch of think the obama administration is going to push them to do it in the hope of course not you know quick here here it is this is such a political hot bed churches should not have this tax right to begin with taxpayers pay for it it's there's no real reason for it why are we subsidizing churches my pap and tonio well said thanks a lot for being with us tonight thank you. coming up what's the libertarian plan for stopping pollution and saving the future of planet earth i'll ask austin peterson after the break. no. the worst. white house to give it to a radio guy. to go get you never seen anything like that i'm told. the emission free accreditation free in-store charges free arrangements free. three stooges free. download free blogs just plug in video for your media projects and free media oh god r t dot com. in the best the rest of the news with the rise of the anti-government floss of the of the tea p

to avoid having to deal with the i.r.s. and let's talk a little bit more in detail about the foreign account tax compliance act does the u.s. have the only is it the u.s. that does that or do other countries kind of implement this on other citizens that go and live abroad the u.s. is the only truly developed country an economic power that institutes this on their citizens living abroad now there's three point portions within fatca that need to be addressed and the first one is it's requiring like i said before the us to disclose names account numbers account balances withdrawals etc whenever a u.s. citizen does these sort of financial things within their own financial institution that's number one number two us people with foreign bank accounts with over fifty thousand dollars in a foreign bank account need to fill out paperwork it's just a new form just incredibly long tax returns that your citizens are already subject to and it's not millions millions dollars it's yes it's a large amount of money fifty thousand dollars but

the i.r.s. bihar rasing -- the i.r.s. sing these groups will make it so the groups can't get status at all. the i.r.s. in a sense is shooting itself in the foot. why is it doing it? as near as anybody can tell, because of a general hostility toward political activity by conservative groups. also i think just by new groups and by outside groups, groups that haven't been players in the field already. >>steve: that is interesting because he's the guy who used to head up the federal election commission. you know, it is quite an eye-opener. in the meantime even though we know apparently the i.r.s. is still to this day targeting conservative groups because they don't have any other protocol to use, our president and his men and women go out there and they refer to this scandal -- and it is a scandal -- as phony. have you heard this? listen. >> endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals. >> phony scandal. >> endless parade of political posturing and phony scandals. >>steve: hold the phony. >>anna: a

program, and the i.r.s. am, admits wrongdoing, and apologizes and lies and gets caught. benghazi is a mess but these are phony? >> well, this is classic distraction. we have an economy that is having slow economic growth, tepid growth in and of itself and the labor market participation is relatively low. so the obama administration has gotten a modest case to make on the economy. the scandals are very serious. we will talk about them today in great detail particularly pat caddell. bottom line, we have dysfunction in washington. the only asset the president has is republican disarray, totally divided on the budget and the president is basically doing a divide and conquer strategy to take modest credit for modest gain but to blame the republicans, try to demonize them and above all else turn away from the so-called phony scandal. >> gregg: i play a clipthe whity jake carney because it appears to be a constant theme in the white house, scandals. what scandals? >>guest: we see as more facts known whether it is ab

consumption tax of vast improvement over what we currently have imagine not having to deal with the i.r.s. but on the poor with that rich people don't care about a consumption tax well actually i am i'm saying let's let's as a starting point take the fair tax something that has been proposed before congress and i believe there are over a hundred twenty five congressmen and women who have signed on to this but but your point is that a consumption tax is regressive and that is they go direct point the way that the fair tax deals with the fact that it is regressive is it gives everybody in the country a two hundred dollar a month pre-baked check so you and i everybody gets twenty four hundred dollars a year to be able to pay the fair tax up to the point of the poverty level it's like an unavoidable amount of fair tax. everybody is going to have to pay but that's how they deal with it is that the best way to deal with it let's have a debate and a discussion over best way to implement one federal consumption tax are you now the leader or the libertarian movement i would have to say because i w

yeah absolutely i mean the bottom line here is that the i.r.s. will consider money because you as a user of going to write file you from it if you mind but it's income the government will consider money in every way possible in terms of regulation except as legal tender so it's a very broad category from a practical perspective i can use that as a means of exchange i can use it to buy things and therefore as far as i'm concerned it's money i use it to buy things it's money simple as that. i'm going to i'm going to talk to you about the incredible computing power that's being employed no to mine bitcoins there's a cost benefit analysis going on there can you talk about some of the technology that's being employed to do this and are people actually making money on this. well some people are making money but first of all i'd like to point out that the incredible computing power which is now almost four hundred terror hashes per second worldwide is not just used to mend the coins. it's also used to secure all of the transactions on the network so in f

foreign banks are saying or we don't want to do that so the easier way instead of going up against the i.r.s. in the federal government is to not accept u.s. citizens as clients so if we have a bunch of money we want to put in a bank overseas don't want to pay all the taxes they're like no no. munda prefer to work with a french person or german person or someone else not from the us to avoid having to deal with the i.r.s. and let's talk a little bit more in detail about the foreign account tax compliance act does the us have the only is it the us that does that or do other countries kind of implement this on other citizens that go and live abroad the us is the only truly developed country an economic power that institutes this on their citizens living abroad now there's three point port portions within that need to be addressed and the first one is it's requiring like i said before the us to disclose names account numbers account balances withdrawals etc whenever a us citizen does these sort of financial things within their own financial institution that's number one number two you have peop

so the i.r.s. targeting 6 conservative groups have really revived the tea party movement.e ask you, though, are you still at war with the i.r.s.? from what i gather they're still demys tax exemptions. >> not just that they're denying it, we got another intrusive letter from them just last week. it hasn't stopped at all. it concerns me, because i don't know if it's ever going to stop. >> all right. well, you're raising good money, no question about it. there's a great chart in today's newspaper. let me ask you, what is your strategy? what are the key issues that you want to emphasize in the coming elections? >> well, we want to continue to stick to what we've done all along, when is a constitutionally limited government, ically responsible government. we want free markets to actually operate in america once again. that's what we're going to do. we're focused right now on the resolution and obama care. we'll continue to make those our two primary issues as we move into 2014. >> the creed of this show is free market capitalism, so i love that. you mentioned continuing resolut

the last thing we should do now is to allow the i.r.s. play such a central role in our health care. the irs has a role in nearly 50 different aspects of obama care. the agency's involvement is so extensive that there is a designated office within the irs just to implement obamacare. the irs will have access to the american people's protected health care information. given that this same agency has illegally disclosed protected taxpayer information, the privacy concerns raised by many are legitimate. this is nothing short of an unwelcome big government overreach into the most personal aspects of our lives. obamacare is bad for the economy and for working middle class families. it increases costs, impedes innovation, and we know is now turning full time jobs into rt time jobs. which is why so many on both sides of the political spectrum are now beginning to realize in the words of three democratic union leaders, that this law is creating nightmare scenarios in the health and well-being of millions of hard-working americans. the legislation

the i.r.s. admitted to being scandalous. f.b.i. us turn on the cell phone if they want to remotely. any question what is going on th the data they are holding? >> who knows what they are doing with it? they are evading a real war. the snooping and the spying on americans is an invasion of the actual enemy, jihad and state sponsored islam. the egyptians are denouncing it. we can't make up our mind on the muslim brotherhood? so we have to worry about our own government spying and actively working against the enemy but against americans. >> they don't want to admit there is an enemy. >> we have to admit there are causes to look in specific people and the interest instead of a blanket approach. that says everybody is a suspect. that is unconstitutional. it's uncomfort to believe know they can take it out. >> a lot of this began with the patriot act. >> when we have a crisis we pass laws quickly. the patriot act if you read it, allowed for this to happen. patriot act should go away. 9/11, i know you hate to hear this, but 9/11is a decade

the i.r.s. is policy of non enforcement of the electioneering restrictions when it comes to churches and religious organizations so isn't the real i.r.s. scandal will be start with erica this is the real scandal here with the i.r.s. that they're not enforcing the law and they haven't been you know for quite some time well i'm going to go back to the premise of the real scandal i think that it was a trumped up scandal to begin with the records show that there were a number of progressive organizations that were brought under scrutiny because of their name as well and so they don't want to lodge a history right so it wasn't just one or the other but i do think that yes there is something about churches in five zero one c three s. and the bigger issue here is that we're using the i.r.s. to police resend surely is the federal elections commission and what people can and can't do and donations and and you know political speech and political money and as we've kind of shifted towards having these poli

and quite frankly given what is happen with the i.r.s. and the a.p. the other things, i iles per hour people would believe them. that is really sad. >> david: that is a good point. the fact is this is the same government that has been using other institutions like the i.r.s. for political purposes apparently in some way. so do you trust them with our even more personal information? >> i don't. but i'll say before i get in to that for a second, i will say i think the nsa is a necessary evil. i wager in this day and age, of terrorism and cyber warfare it's more important than the nuclear arms program we have. that said, i do not trust the bigger issue here, according to the documents leaked by edward snowden, the nsa internal review in 2012 found on average each year since 2008, 2,000 episode of privacy rules broken by the nsa. that needs to change. we need more checks and balances. >> david: we're relying on the nsa to watch itself. >> it doesn't work out well if you investigate yourself. >> david: the head of the nsa, jim clapper apologized for the te

the i.r.s. trouble agency promotion executive tie to tea party targeting and now the tax man is going after small businesses, too. i'll talk to congressman who defines the tea party. roger pittenger says he will not shut down the government orve the obamacare funding. plus out of this world discoveries from nasa. keep it here. see you then. ♪ ♪ >> eric: sarah palin called them obamacare death panels and she was vilified for it. now four years later, are a growing number of democrats proving her right? like this one? democratic national committee chairman howard dean is worried about the panel set up to decide how much healthcare you and i are entitled to. so is this list of congressional democrats. they want the panel repealed. sarah palin joins us now. in the hot seat with her first reaction. governor, thank you so much. were you surprised when you see the likes of howard deep and other democrats jumping on board saying hey, the governor was right? >> it was a pleasant surprise. i don't think we

it's important to know that this union represents most of the i.r.s. workers, the 100,000 i.r.s. workers who are the ones who are going to be enforcing the health care law. and what about these i.r.s. work centers what do they say? the i.r.s. employee union said they are very concerned that they might actually have to buy their own health insurance in the exchanges, just like other americans. now these are the exact same i.r.s. agents who will collect massive amounts of data, personal data on people's individual lives and their health care choices. they will investigate whether people have the right coverage. they will apply the tax penalties to anyone who doesn't. these are the agents who now say they want no part of the health care law's exchanges for themselves. they actually have sample letters that the union has sent to the i.r.s. agents to send to members of congress to say "i am one of your constituents, and we don't want to apply to us. and we want to hear back from you." well, this health care law is bad for all americans. each of those stories demonstrates again that the

banks who cater to american customers back over choir's foreign financial institutions to report to the i.r.s. information about u.s. taxpayers accounts and even require them to withhold funds from americans the result according to forbes to avoid these complex regulations of potential issues in the future and increasing number of non us financial institutions no longer offer any services to us connected clients additionally foreign banks and foreign nationals can be subject to huge fines and bank account seizures from the i.r.s. if they don't comply these laws also make it difficult for americans to get a mortgage life insurance or other financial services overseas and us tax lawyer in zurich estimated that with increased u.s. tax reporting u.s. accounting costs alone or around two thousand dollars per year for a u.s. citizen residing abroad. this is causing more americans to weigh the cost of being an american living abroad and response the number of expatriates is rising even some of america's a favorite entrepreneurs and entertainers are taking off the red white and blue american music di

they all were quite credible but they're just so extreme these viral e-mails that talk about how the i.r.s. is a new police force that just bought a billion dollar it's these acros right they just bought a billion bullets is going to be coming to your home to deter. and whether or not you have insurance and whether or not your children are vaccinated and if you daughter they don't they're going to and i just kind of blowing this off i thought nobody would take this seriously today on our radio we do i do a three hour radio show every day as well as a t.v. show and on the radio show we did this in the last the third hour and i probably got twenty calls from people asking variations of that dead series i mean people people out there in red state america are getting this and this is the only information they have are their obamacare police is the iris going to show up at your house are there in force in provisions that can actually lead you to go to jail. no no no no i think are the short answers to that. we've certainly heard that go to jail thing a lot too there is starting on january first

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the acting i.r.s. director said as much but has that trickled down to a memo form to the people working there specifically in the cincinnati office to change their ways? they're apparently giving any kind of application that has a tea party connotation to it a second look. is that warranted? >>eric: i don't know. i don't think it's warranted because they're not doing the same thing on the liberal side. they have got key word and they all seem to be surrounding the conservative groups that are looking for tax exempt status. 501-c-4 groups are the ones they're looking at right now. 501-c-5, you know what they are? unions. they are also tax exempt and no one is looking at those. >>clayton: lois lerner, at the helm of this in the 2010 election cycle and further on, i think until 2011 and so on, during a speech that has been uncovered, she talks about the political pressure -- remember the citizens united case which opened the floodgates for all kinds of money to pour into politics. she says we were feeling

the i.r.s. says same-sex couples who are married can file joint federal tax returns even if the states do not recognize same-sex marriage. >> there will be a warning on tylenol to curb overdoses say >> covering los altos, antioch, petaluma and all the bay area this is abc7 news. >> happy friday at 4:46. we go back to the roads with our abc7 news engineer by cell 7 technology headed for the richmond-san rafael bridge. dick? >> i am on 580 and the vied looking good in both directions westbound. i will be at the toll plaza in a couple of miles. everything so far on the east side has been looking good, 580, 880, 92 was looking good 20 minutes ago. i am assuming it is still probably close to if not the limit. there is, however, some haze and fog to the deck and you can see the haze in the picture i am showing you as we get into richmond and the haze. have not used the wipers yet but i see mist accumulateing so that could be a point of caution. >> so you did the richmond san rafael bridge this morning.

. >> woodruff: then, the i.r.s. announced it will recognize all legally married same-sex couples, regardless of what state they live in. we examine the impact of this shift in federal tax law. >> brown: the n.f.l. agreed to pay $765 million to former players for concussion-related brain injuries. we get thta