Lawmakers and fiscally conservative leaders are vowing to keep up the pressure on the White House to see why it may have been involved with the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups. Conservative leaders say the IRS scandal confirms their worst fears about a federal government they see as too big and too powerful.

A large number of Republican members of Congress and Tea Party leaders from across the country gathered outside the U.S. Capitol Thursday to criticize the Internal Revenue Service and the Obama administration over allegations the tax agency targeted Tea Party groups for special scrutiny. Conservative lawmakers called on Congress to dig deep to find out who made the decision to single out the groups seeking non-profit tax exempt status. Republican House Speaker John Boehner said House committees would stop at nothing to get to the truth.
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Barack Obama says Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has asked for and received the resignation of the acting director of the Internal Revenue Service. The tax collecting agency was found to have been improperly targeting conservative groups.

Obama spoke Wednesday after meeting with Lew and his top deputy to review a report from the Treasury Department inspector general. The report found that the IRS singled out for scrutiny conservative groups which were seeking tax-exempt status.
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Barack Obama welcomes Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House on Thursday for talks on the situation in Syria and other regional security and bilateral issues.

The two speak frequently on the phone. Syria has been a key topic as the death toll there continues to mount.
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Barack Obama’s administration is facing tough questions on three separate matters, most recently the government seizure of telephone records from news reporters. Reporters peppered White House Press Secretary Jay Carney with questions Tuesday about each of the three issues.
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