Open Congress : News Articles for Rep. Sander M. Levin [D, MI-9]

Congressman Sandy Levin Learns to Live on $31.50-a-Week Food Stamp

2013-06-14T01:00:00Z

...in oil, crunchy peanut butter, sharp cheddar cheese and a single box of raisin bran cereal accounted for more than half of Rep. Sandy Levin's, D-Mich., grocery bill this week. As I stood in the kitchen with him Friday, his meal wasn't what you'd expect

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Mike Thompson: Rep. Levin's food stamp protest

2013-06-12T01:00:00Z

...in the history of humankind should allow children to go hungry, and in solidarity with millions of impoverished Americans, Rep. Sandy Levin has announced that for one week, he will spend no more than $4.50 per day on food. Joined by Ferndale Mayor Dave

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Mike Thompson: Rep. Levin's food stamp protest

2013-06-12T01:00:00Z

Mike Thompson: Rep. Levin's food stamp protest

2013-06-12T01:00:00Z

Cable News Ratings for Thursday, May 30, 2013

2013-05-31T01:00:00Z

...the top tax writers in the House –Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and the committee’s leading Democrat, Rep. Sandy Levin (Mich.). Camp and Levin had asked the agency for documents on how it vetted conservative groups by May 21. Baucus an

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More trouble for the IRS

2013-05-31T01:00:00Z

...statement added. IRS officials have also not handed over documents to Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and Rep. Sandy Levin (Mich.), the panel’s top Democrat, who asked for similar information by May 21. Even so, the congressional investiga

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Latest notes from Chicago where the President is ……. guess!

2013-05-30T01:00:00Z

...per couple. Dinner at the home of Bettylu and Paul Saltzman: · Members of Congress who are attending include: Congressman Sandy Levin and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky. · Ticket prices ranged from $10,000 per person or $32,400 per couple. · Despite be

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Dems seize on CBO report to demand tax increases

2013-05-29T01:00:00Z

...interest, the deduction for charitable contributions, the child tax credit and the exclusion for pension contributions. Rep. Sandy Levin (Mich.), the top Democrat on House Ways and Means, suggested the report showed that Republicans' goals for tax refor

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OVERNIGHT MONEY: IRS scandal limps into next week

2013-05-23T01:00:00Z

...named to take her place. "The administration has taken a strong step to address serious mistakes," said Michigan Democrat Rep. Sandy Levin. "This and further corrective action are vital in restoring the confidence of the American people.” Sen. Chuck G

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Dem: IRS 'could affect everything else'

2013-05-20T01:00:00Z

...slow down legislation, including the cornerstone of President Obama’s second-term agenda. Speaking Monday on MSNBC, Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) said the multiple inquiries into the conduct of IRS employees could undermine the push for immigration refor

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Outgoing IRS chief Steven Miller testifies on tax-targeting scandal – live

2013-05-17T01:00:00Z

...does it make for Congress to keep making the tax code more and more complex without giving the IRS additional resources? Republicans have not been willing to accept this as satisfactory: IRS commissioner on agency practices: "It is absolutely not illega

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WATCH LIVE | Congressional hearings on IRS scandal

2013-05-17T01:00:00Z

...hidden to the American people just long enough to make it through an election," Camp said. The panel's top Democrat, Rep. Sandy Levin, D-Mich., said he, too, wanted to find out why the IRS targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny, and that IRS of

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IRS chief denies politics drove Tea Party screening

2013-05-17T01:00:00Z

Congressional hearing seeks to ask IRS: 'Why?'

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

...Ways and Means Committees Chairman Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., left, and ranking Democrat Rep. Sandy Levin, D-Mich.,in a hearing last year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite AP) WASHINGTON (USA TODAY) -- The nation's soon-to-

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Acting IRS commissioner out in tea party scandal

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

...the resignation of the acting commissioner of the IRS.” It was a step that had been called for earlier in the day by Sandy Levin, D-Mich., the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, in an interview with MSNBC when he called on Miller to

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Congressional hearing seeks to ask IRS: 'Why?'

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

...Ways and Means Committees Chairman Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., left, and ranking Democrat Rep. Sandy Levin, D-Mich.,in a hearing last year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)(Photo: J. Scott Applewhite AP) House tax committee holds first hearing on IRS s

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IRS controversy: What's the potential fallout?

2013-05-15T01:00:00Z

...Steve Miller over that management. In a preview of what questions they'll ask, Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., and Rep. Sandy Levin, D-Mich., the top Democrat on the committee, sent Miller a letter asking that he respond to several questions by May 21. The

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DOJ opens criminal probe into IRS’s politically biased audits

2013-05-15T01:00:00Z

...with Miller as one of two scheduled witnesses. Ahead of Friday’s hearing, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and Rep. Sandy Levin (Mich.), the committee’s top Democrat, asked for all of the IRS’s documents related to the vetting of conser

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'My Question Is Who's Going to Jail?'

2013-05-15T01:00:00Z

...D-Mich., top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday he is "troubled" by the AP phone records grab. And Rep. Sandy Levin, D-Mich., ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, told MSNBC that the acting IRS commissioner and

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IRS controversy: What's the potential fallout?

2013-05-15T01:00:00Z