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blogs.rollcall.com — The Finance Committee isn't the only place in the Senate to watch for news about the ongoing controversy over selective review of conservative groups by the IRS. Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and ranking member Orrin G.

atr.rollcall.com — Strategy Group for Media CEO Rex Elsass will announce on Tuesday that he has hired Rick Tyler as his company's new president. The announcement comes fewer than two weeks after Elsass filed a lawsuit against his company's last president, Nick Everhart. That dispute has fixated the GOP consultant class.

blogs.rollcall.com — Speaker John A. Boehner is vowing that Oklahoma tornado victims will get relief - but he demurred on when and how the House might act on a bill, and whether his conference would support it. "We'll work with the administration on making sure they have the resources they need," the Ohio Republican told reporters.

atr.rollcall.com — Missouri Speaker Pro Tem Jason Smith picked up the endorsement of the Tea Party Express on Tuesday, less than three weeks before the special election in the Show Me State's 8th District. "Jason is a promising young conservative who will bring fiscal responsibility to Washington, D.C.," Tea Party Express Chairwoman Amy Kremer said in a news release.

blogs.rollcall.com — The second congressional hearing on the IRS scandal, scheduled for Tuesday morning in the Senate Finance Committee, may offer solid clues about which of two ways the Republicans plan to play the imbroglio. One choice is to pursue the matter as a potential scandal.

blogs.rollcall.com — House Republican leadership will soon have to decide how hard to push a controversial ban on late-term abortions sought by the party's base in the wake of Pennsylvania abortion provider Kermit Gosnell's three murder convictions.

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blogs.rollcall.com — Roll Call's Hill Navigator advice column helps staffers with sticky or complicated situations they find themselves in on Capitol Hill. Each week, we take the most interesting submissions from our inbox and answer your concerns. This week: the ex-boss who wants to hang around. Q.

rollcall.com — A top GOP ad firm's split took a litigious turn earlier this month, when Rex Elsass, the CEO and founder of The Strategy Group for Media, filed suit against his company's former president, Nick Everhart. Elsass fired Everhart via email in early April, accusing his former employee of a litany of grievances ranging from stealing company computer files and "trade secrets" to erratic personal behavior.

blogs.rollcall.com — It wasn't your imagination: Sunday night's episode of "Mad Men," aptly titled "The Crash," was pretty freaking weird. It seems like other people have noticed that, once the team at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (slash Cutler Gleason and Chaough, whew!) injected some Hunter S.

atr.rollcall.com — To many on Capitol Hill, the burgeoning scandal dogging the IRS looks like a simple case of partisan political targeting by an overbearing federal agency. But the IRS controversy has laid bare a far more serious and far-reaching problem: the agency's utter failure to keep pace with drastically changing campaign finance laws.