President Obama could have trouble winning Senate confirmation of two labor board members installed last year using controversial recess appointments.

It’s been a tough week for President Barack Obama, but Republicans are not passing up an opportunity to take a hit at him for what they say is a needless delay of approval for the Keystone XL pipeline.

Back in March, The Wall Street Journal’s Damian Paletta profiled Daniel Werfel -- then the controller for the White House budget office, and today the newly named acting commissioner of the IRS. Here are highlights.

President Barack Obama’s nominee to oversee mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has pledged to sell off shares he owns in of Bank of America Corp. and other financial institutions should he be confirmed by lawmakers.

President Barack Obama named the current controller of the White House budget office, Daniel Werfel, acting commissioner of the IRS.

Here is the statement from President Barack Obama announcing Daniel Werfel as the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, as released by the White House.

House Speaker Boehner said he was “concerned” that a bipartisan group of House lawmakers has been unable to reach an agreement on legislation to overhaul the country’s immigration laws, but said he was determined that the House would act in a “responsible way” on an immigration bill.

President Barack Obama and Turkey's Prime Minister Erdoğan are holding a joint press conference at the White House, scheduled to begin at noon. They are expected to discuss the crisis in Syria.

The ghost of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, the long-serving Democrat from Massachusetts, is watching over the Senate effort to overhaul the immigration system, one of its main proponents said Thursday.

President Obama has reportedly talked privately of "going Bulworth," a reference to the 1998 Warren Beatty film. Here's an explanation of what that means.

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The White House transcript of President Barack Obama’s remarks on IRS misconduct.

Senate Democrats on Thursday take up two of the labor movement’s top priorities: Tom Perez’s nomination as labor secretary and filling vacancies on the NLRB.

President Barack Obama, busy running the country over the last four years, has so far missed out on the chance to snag a lower interest rate for his Chicago home mortgage.

SEC Chairman Mary Jo White named two top agency officials Wednesday.

The IRS gave extra scrutiny starting in 2010 to conservative nonprofit groups applying to be classified as tax-exempt, according to an inspector general's report. Here are some key findings from the report.

The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a confirmation hearing next Thursday for Penny Pritzker, the Commerce secretary nominee.

David Axelrod said the Obama administration should release emails related to last year’s terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.

The IRS sought to squelch the notion that its chief counsel, William Wilkins, might have learned early on of the agency’s targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny.

Eric Holder faces questions in a hearing at the House Judiciary Committee, which is set to start at 1 pm. He will be grilled on the IRS scandal, the subpoenas of Associated Press phone records, and other issues.