In Today’s Times
- An inspector general blamed ineffective Internal Revenue Service management for failing to stop employees from singling out conservative groups for added scrutiny, with investigators still trying to determine if the issue branched out into other parts of the Obama administration, Jonathan Weisman reports.
- House Republicans will charge forward on a vote to repeal President Obama’s health care law this week, the 37th time they will have attempted to eliminate or curtail the legislation or take away its funding. But that figure still understates the amount of time Republicans have devoted to trying to dismantle the president’s biggest legislative accomplishment, Jeremy W. Peters reports.
- Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and his deputy, James M. Cole, on Tuesday defended the Justice Department’s sweeping seizure of telephone records of The Associated Press, saying an A.P. article “put the American people at risk,†Charlie Savage and Scott Shane report.
Happenings in Washington
- President Obama will deliver remarks at the National Peace Officers Memorial Service, an annual ceremony honoring law enforcement personnel who were killed on the job in the previous year.
- Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will meet with Prime Minister Ivica Dacic of Serbia in the White House.
