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Food and other items while attending a conference. they asked tim geithner about conferences and treasury responded it spent less than $500,000. now coburn is asking questions to jack lu. >> they are incompetent what they are doing or they are deceitful. quite frankly i don't know which it is. i have asked the inspector general to look into this. i also set secretary lu a letter saying explain this. >> reporter: tomorrow the house oversight committee will focus on the irs spend nearly $50 million on conferences from 2010 through 2012. >> they have been around since 1862. you would think in tha...

>> bret: now fresh pickings from the political grapevine. the first story is brought to you by the letter t. as in terminator. which is what the federal government has done to a $20 million contract for a pakistani version of "ses tee street." the reason? allegation of fraud and abuse and taxpayer money. the state department says almost $7 million have already been spent on the project. designed to improve education and tolerance in the region. the initiative made it to tom coburn's 2011 waste book as an example of low priority government spending. now coburn says, "the fact that washington ev...

This irs mess. >> to me it's a cultural problem at the irs. one i think this you see, it is not just those two employees. think about what they go before everybody. we're now hearing this isn't just the direction of cincinnati looking over. they were now telling irs agents are telling us that washington was sending them some direction on who to investigate. >> reporter: one key law make other on the house oversight committee will try to get who beyond the irs was involved in the targeting of conservative organizations. bill: you make a great point about the spending and debt was climbing. all ...