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The House Oversight Committee will hold its latest hearing next week into how the IRS handled the applications of groups seeking tax exempt status. The hearings have morphed from a scandal over the targeting of Tea Party groups into something broader.

Even the admission of a self-described conservative Republican IRS manager that he was at the heart of the agency's targeting of Tea Party groups hasn't disrupted the partisan head-butting. Indeed, it may have intensified it.

Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings tells CNN that testimony from a key IRS official contradicts the claim that "Tea Party" and "patriot" groups were singled out for political reasons.

Gowdy's voice cracked when he pointed out that some government workers were furloughed while some IRS employees stayed in lavish hotel rooms.

It's what happens when one party holds the White House and the other at least one congressional chamber. Subpoenas are launched like rockets at an enemy camp.

The former ambassador who led a review of the Benghazi consulate attack tells NPR he offered to testify at a House hearing but wasn't invited by Republicans.

Republicans claim Thomas Perez struck a quid pro quo deal with Minnesota that may have cost the federal treasury as much as $180 million. Perez says he acted ethically.

Republicans Charles Grassley of Iowa and Darrell Issa of California want to know if a whistleblower is being punished while one of the ATF managers involved is being allowed to "double-dip."

Republican lawmakers want more information on the lead-up to the attack that killed an American ambassador.

The White House has exerted executive privilege over the documents in question. Republicans say Obama has overstepped his authority.