Open Congress : News Articles for Sen. Mike Crapo [R, ID]

Lew: 'I Will Not Cross That Line Into the Administration of the Tax System'

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...the IRS and apart from politics.” Lew was on Capitol Hill to brief Congress on threats to U.S. financial stability, but Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) questioned him about the IRS singling out conservative groups for greater scrutiny when those groups appl

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Lew Says He Heard of IRS Audit in Mid-March

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin received the report at the same time last week. “These actions must never be tolerated,” Sen. Mike Crapo (R., Idaho) told Mr. Lew. Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) sought to pin the blame on President Barack Obama and his ad

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IRS lied by omission, Hatch said

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...for bad management. "I think what happened here was foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient." Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, said Miller’s argument that agents acted with no political motivation is "almost beyond belief" and he que

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Former IRS chief to Congress: Can't say how targeting of conservative groups happened

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...to target conservative groups was politically motivated. A lack of political motivation "is almost beyond belief," said Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho. George's report blamed ineffective management for allowing agents to inappropriately target conservative gr

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IRS chief and Treasury knew about plan to use planted question to unveil scandal

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...-- it is -- was the discretion of the IRS to decide how to manage this matter, Lew said in answer to questions from Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho. A Treasury official, demanding anonymity to speak freely, explained that agency officials had learned in April

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Bible Pathway - May 20, 2013

2013-05-20T01:00:00Z

...and Penny Swanson • Staff: Ben Wallace • Government Officials: Rep. Wally Herger (CA), Rep. John C. Carney, Jr. (DE), Sen. Mike Crapo (ID) and Rep. Nick J. Rahall II (WV) • Country:Egypt (66 million) in northeastern Africa • Major languages: Ara

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Lax control costly to Sen. Mike Crapo's campaign

2013-05-20T01:00:00Z

...a final federal elections disclosure for his boss in October 2008, he said there was something important he wasn't told. Sen. Mike Crapo's then-campaign manager, Jake Ball, shifted $250,000 from a campaign account to another account at now-defunct Washi

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Crapo's campaign suffered from poor controls

2013-05-19T01:00:00Z

...-- U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo's former treasurer says nobody told him about a $250,000 loan made in 2008 by the campaign's manager to a friend. William Corbett, who at the time was exiting as volunteer treasurer, says if he'd known, he would have reported it.

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Crapo's campaign suffered from poor controls

2013-05-19T01:00:00Z

...Idaho (AP) — As William Corbett was preparing a final federal elections disclosure for his boss, U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo, in October 2008, he said there was something important he wasn't told. Crapo's then-campaign manager, Jake Ball, shifted $250,000 fr

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Idaho Statesman Local News: Crapo throws himself at mercy of FEC

2013-05-17T01:00:00Z

...Mike Crapo is hoping to make the best of a bad situation by taking advantage of a 2007 policy that encourages campaigns to voluntarily report violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act. Last week, the Idaho Republican filed a "sua sponte" letter wi

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Crapo Seeks More Time for Comment on Trading-Glitch Rules

2013-05-17T01:00:00Z

...for public comment on proposed rules aimed at fighting trading glitches on exchanges and clearinghouses. Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo , the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, asked Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Jo White on Frida

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Tavenner approved by Senate

2013-05-15T01:00:00Z

...to her role in implementing the president’s health reform law. Continue Reading The seven who voted no are Republican Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch of Idaho, Ted Cruz of Texas, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah, and Rand Paul and Minority Le

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Crapo Campaign Cash Went to Las Vegas Company

2013-05-14T01:00:00Z

...@politicalwire Sen. Mike Crapo's (R-ID) former campaign manager "blames his friend for investing $250,000 from donors in a Las Vegas company amid the 2008 global financial crisis, part of a scheme intended to pay off within two months," the AP reports.

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Crapo's lost campaign cash went to Las Vegas firm, intended for quick profit

2013-05-14T01:00:00Z

...Resources. Crapo's campaign cash went to Las Vegas company By JOHN MILLER, Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo's former campaign manager blames his friend for investing $250,000 from donors in a Las Vegas company amid the 2008 gl

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Crapo's campaign cash went to Las Vegas company

2013-05-13T01:00:00Z

...-- U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo's ex-campaign manager blames his friend for making a "less than professional" investment of $250,000 from political donors in a Las Vegas company amid the 2008 global financial crisis. That's according to documents released Monda

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Bottom Rung: The Politics Of Increasing The Minimum Wage

2013-05-13T01:00:00Z

...stationary store to buy school supplies for their kids, to pay rent and utilities. That, in turn, feeds the economy.” Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) also voted for the 2007 bill, and doesn’t support raising the rate to $9 an hour. A spokesman for Sen. Cr

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Crapo's campaign cash went to Las Vegas company

2013-05-13T01:00:00Z

...says campaign lost $250K on 2008 loan Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo, who said he learned of the loan in 2010, two years after it was made, is amending his Federal Election Commission campaign finance reports for the third quarters of 2008 and 2009 to

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FAA to fund Felts Field - Sat, 11 May 2013 PST

2013-05-11T01:00:00Z

...can continue to grow in the region,” Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said Friday in a prepared statement. Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo, Idaho Republicans, said they thought the Federal Aviation Administration had enough money to keep airports fully st

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Felts tower to stay open

2013-05-10T01:00:00Z

...continue to grow in the region,” Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said Friday in a prepared statement. Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo, Idaho Republicans, said they thought the Federal Aviation Administration had enough money to keep airports fully staffe

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Former Crapo campaign chief made the bad loan to longtime friend

2013-05-10T01:00:00Z

...Ryan, a Washington, D.C. attorney hired by Sen. Mike Crapo’s campaign to look into the loss of $250,000 in campaign funds through a bad loan, said this afternoon that then-campaign manager Jake Ball loaned the money to Gavin McCaleb, whom he’d known

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