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Politics Who's to blame for murky regulation in IRS scandal: Agency or lawmakers?

In a Senate hearing, the two most recent IRS chiefs were grilled over why the agency failed for years to fix the law at the root of the political targeting scandal. The same could be asked of Congress, one said.

By Staff Writer / May 21, 2013

J. Scott Applewhite / AP

The IRS should move unilaterally to fix the law sitting at the root of the agency’s targeting of conservative groups, according to Senate Democrats who grilled the agency’s two most recent chiefs at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Tuesday.