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1:25 PM ET, May 30, 2013

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Carol Cratty / CNN:
Holder runs into roadblocks on off-the-record meetings on leaks  —  Washington (CNN) - Attorney General Eric Holder's plans to sit down with media representatives to discuss guidelines for handling investigations into leaks to the news media have run into trouble.
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Growing boycott of Eric Holder media meetings  —  Several news organizations have announced they will not attend this week's off the record meetings with Attorney General Eric Holder unless the sit-downs are conducted on the record.  —  CNN and McClatchy on Thursday joined The Associated Press …
USA Today:
War on leaks threatens your right to know: Our view
Discussion: Guardian
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Attorney General Holder on the ropes
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Obama to Pick Former Bush Official to Lead F.B.I.
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  May 30, 2013 - American Voters 4-1 Want Special Prosecutor For IRS, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Fixing Economy Is More Important, Voters Say 3-1  —  American voters say 76 - 17 percent, including 63 - 30 percent among Democrats, that a special prosecutor …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Obama's poll numbers hold up despite the storm of scandal  —  Obama's 7 percentage-point positive margin in Gallup is better than where he stood before the IRS scandal broke.  —  President Obama's approval ratings have increased since a trio of controversies involving his administration began dominating the news cycle.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
CBO's Publications:
The Distribution of Major Tax Expenditures in the Individual Income Tax System  —  A number of exclusions, deductions, preferential rates, and credits in the federal tax system cause revenues to be much lower than they would be otherwise for any given structure of tax rates.
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Washington ‘Spends’ More on Tax Breaks Than on Medicare, Defense, or Social Security  —  Tax spending is the $1 trillion nudge.  —  Tax expenditures are funny, They're not taxes, exactly, because they save us money.  They're not spending, exactly, because the dollars are never actually spent.
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:
Tax breaks benefit rich households the most, report says
Vince Coglianese / The Daily Caller:
IRS's Shulman had more public White House visits than any cabinet member  —  Publicly released records show that embattled former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House at least 157 times during the Obama administration, more recorded visits than even the most trusted members of the president's Cabinet.
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
MSNBC Lands In Fourth Place In May; Maddow Hits Ratings Lows  —  MSNBC got some very tough ratings news on Wednesday.  —  Another month of big crime and disaster news saw the network struggle to keep up with rivals CNN, HLN and Fox News.  MSNBC was presumably expecting some dropoff from its 2012 numbers …
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Lincoln Chafee switches affiliation to Democrat  —  Obama has returned the favor: he declined to endorse a Democrat for governor in 2010, when Chafee was running as an independent in a three-way race.  And when Chafee ran TV ads featuring archival footage of the president praising him, Obama and his aides did not object.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Jim O'Sullivan / Boston Globe:
Chafee's party switch reflects broader regional trends
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:   Mounting legal woes spurred Democratic leader's resignation
Jim Tankersley / Washington Post:
Sequester not biting District yet  —  In the months since the automatic federal spending cuts known as the sequester took effect, the Washington area has added 40,000 jobs.  Income-tax receipts have surged in Virginia, beating expectations.  Few government contractors have laid off workers.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Summary
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
McCain Wasn't Posing With Rebel Kidnapper, Spokesman Says  —  “Regrettable” if true, McCain spokesman says.  —  Via: Handout/Reuter / Reuters  —  WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain's office is pushing back against reports that while visiting Syria this week he posed in a photo with rebels who kidnapped 11 Lebanese Shi'ite pilgrims.
Anne Barnard / New York Times:
Assad Says Syria Has Received Advanced Missiles From Russia  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Bashar al-Assad of Syria said in a television interview to be broadcast on Thursday that Russia has delivered S-30 air defense missiles to his country, weapons that Israel has said present a threat …
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Rick Madonik / Toronto Star:
Rob Ford video scandal: Mayor Ford said he knew where video was, sources say  —  The mayor cited “our contacts” as the source of his information, according to insiders familiar with an unusual May 17 session in his office. … Toronto Mayor Rob Ford speaks during a press conference at City Hall …
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Tea Partying Strip Club Mogul: The IRS Targeted Me, Too  —  Meet Selim “Sam” Zherka.  New York City strip club proprietor.  Westchester county newspaper owner.  And the self-described “loudest voice” for the Tea Party in New York state.  —  In the weeks since the revelation …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Conservative Icon Calls GOP's Need To Court Hispanics A ‘Great Myth’  —  Phyllis Schlafly of the pro-family group Eagle Forum called the GOP's need to reach out to Hispanic voters a “great myth” during a conservative radio program Wednesday.  —  “The Hispanics who have come …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Right Wing Watch
Jason Lange / Reuters:
First quarter GDP revised slightly lower; austerity bites  —  (Reuters) - A drop in government spending dragged more on the U.S. economy than initially thought in the first three months of the year, a sign of increasing pain from Washington's austerity drive.
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Annals of the Security State: ‘Is Puerto Rico in America?’  —  Here are two more, from people willing to go on the record under their real names.  Previous entries here, here, here. … Now, from David Rivera, who runs a small business in San Diego: … No more “analysis” at the moment.
 
 
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CBS News:
What's going on between the IRS and True the Vote?
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Josh Kraushaar / NationalJournal.com:
Republican Red Flags All Over in Bellwether States
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Marjorie Margolies running for Congress again
John Fund / National Review:
Obama's ‘Chicago Way’  —  The scandals swirling around …
Keith Koffler / Politico:
Why Dems might reject Hillary Clinton in 2016
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 Earlier Items: 
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
With campaign in rearview, Ann Romney says there were mistakes
Discussion: Politico and Taking Note
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
IRS Crosses Green Line
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
The new Anthony Weiner, same as the old
Discussion: First Read, Politicker and BuzzFeed
Mike Spector / Wall Street Journal:
Petraeus Reboots With Private-Equity Giant
Discussion: Yahoo! News, Fortune, Gawker and DealBook
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Ted Cruz opens up on immigration
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Washington Post:
Officials: Man who knew Boston bombing suspect was unarmed when shot
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Lois Lerner state
Discussion: Pirate's Cove