INCOMING IRS COMMISH DANIEL WERFEL ASKED TO SPEARHEAD A REVIEW OF THE **

WERFEL, TAPPED BY PRES OBAMA ON THURS TO TAKE OVER THE IRS FOR THE **

THE REPORT WILL INCLUDE HOLDING THE IRS ACCOUNTABLE FOR INAPPROPRIATE **

CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT CMTE ISSUES SUBPOENA TO THE CO-CHAIR OF THE **

AMB THOMAS PICKERING HAD OFFERED TO TESTIFY PUBLICLY BEFORE THE CMTE, BUT **

ISSA HAS BECOME THE FACE OF A GROUP OF GOP LAWMAKERS DIRECTING AN **

PICKERING'S MEETING WITH ISSA IS SLATED FOR NEXT THURS **

SECOND DAY OF BOMBINGS NEAR IRAQ'S CAPITAL LEAVE AT LEAST 76 DEAD, AS **

BOMBS TORE THROUGH SUNNI AREAS OF BAGHDAD FRI AFTER TWO DAYS OF BOMBINGS **

A TOTAL OF 130 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED SINCE WED **

OUSTED IRS COMMISH APOLOGIZES FOR THE EXTRA SCRUTINY GIVEN TO CONSERVATIVE **

STEVEN MILLER, TESTIFYING BEFORE THE REPUBLICAN-RUN HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS **

BUT CMTE CHAIRMAN DAVE CAMP CALLS THE ENTIRE U.S. TAX SYSTEM "ROTTEN AT THE **

MEANWHILE, TOP DEMOCRAT ON THE COMMITTEE, REP SANDER LEVIN (MI), SAID "ALL **

BUT LEVIN WARNED AGAINST TURNING THE HEARING INTO "AN EFFORT TO SCORE **

AT THE SAME HEARING, THE TREASURY DEPT'S INSPECTOR GEN FOR TAX ADMIN SAYS **

TWO COMMUTER TRAINS COLLIDE OUTSIDE NYC DURING EVENING RUSH HOUR, INJURING **

METRO-NORTH RAILROAD COMMUTER TRAIN FROM NEW HAVEN, CT, HEADED FOR NY **

THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF FATALITIES **

FAIRFIELD POLICE SPOX SAYS AUTHORITIES ARE STILL INVESTIGATING WHAT CAUSED **

AMTRAK HAS SUSPENDED SERVICE INDEFINITELY BETWEEN NY AND BOSTON **


 

Latest White House Press Pool Report: The latest — including what the First Family is wearing!

Subject: Print pool #7 potus

 

Neil Patrick Harris welcomed the first family on stage at about 548 pm. They waved, the girls had bright colored jackets and the First Lady had a teal jacket on and white pants.

 

The president, in custom black coat and black suit, counted down from five and they hit the button. A big tree illuminated with a yellow star on top. Pooler’s view of the tree is mostly obscured by stage but it looks as thought there are baby white lighted stars, cascading down the tree vertically.

 

POTUS said ‘Merry Christmas’ and then they departed the stage.

 

Rico Rodriguez, the kid from ‘Modern Family’, is sitting with the first family and is riffing with Harris on stage.

 

 

 

Allison Sherry

The Denver Post Washington Bureau