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Jamie Dupree

Jamie Dupree is the Radio News Director of the Washington Bureau of the Cox Media Group and writes the Washington Insider blog.

A native of Washington, D.C., Jamie has covered Congress and politics in the nation’s capital since the Reagan Administration, and has been reporting for Cox since 1989. Politics and the Congress are in Jamie’s family, as both of his parents were staffers for members of Congress. He was also a page and intern in the House of Representatives. Jamie has covered 11 national political conventions, with his first being the 1988 Democratic Convention in Atlanta. His political travels have had him on the presidential campaign trail every four years since 1992, chasing candidates throughout the primary calendar.

He is heard on Cox Radio stations around the country: WSB-AM Atlanta, WDBO-AM Orlando; WOKV-AM/FM Jacksonville; WHIO-AM/FM Dayton, Ohio; and KRMG-AM Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Jamie and his wife Emily live just outside the Beltway with their three children. Some may know Jamie from his other on-air hobby, as he is a licensed amateur radio operator. When not at work or playing with his kids, you can often find him with a golf club in his hands.

Latest from Jamie Dupree

IRS official takes Fifth on political targeting

Less than two weeks after leading IRS efforts to apologize for the targeting of conservative groups, IRS official Lois Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination, refusing to answer questions about what went on at the Internal Revenue Service. "I have not done anything wrong; I have not broken ...

IRS official to take the Fifth before Congress

Back on May 10, Lois Lerner was the first IRS official to speak publicly about the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service; now it seems that she will be the first IRS official to take the Fifth Amendment in a Congressional probe of that targeting. "Pleading the ...

Senators demand information on IRS targeting

After reading dozens of stories about how the IRS demanded mounds of information from Republican-leaning groups that were seeking tax exempt status, two key Senators have turned the tables on the Internal Revenue Service, asking for detailed information on what tax agents were looking for and exactly who made the ...

Congress keeps up pressure on IRS

There will be more hearings this week in the Congress on the IRS targeting of more conservative political groups, as Republicans try to zero in on who signed off on the effort as the GOP presses the Obama Administration for answers. These hearings come after Friday's first Congressional review of ...

Lawmakers spar with outgoing IRS chief

Two days after being pushed out of his job as Acting IRS chief, Steven Miller told a House committee that no politics were involved in the IRS targeting of more conservative political groups seeking tax exempt status, as he sparred with Republican lawmakers in the first hearing on the tax ...

IRS shakeup continues as questions grow

As President Obama chose a new acting director of the Internal Revenue Service, a top agency official with links to IRS targeting of more conservative political groups suddenly decided to retire, as Republicans in Congress accused the IRS of carrying out a political vendetta against Tea Party groups. "Somebody made ...

Acting IRS chief forced out as outcry grows

With more evidence surfacing that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted more conservative groups applying for tax exempt status, President Obama announced the acting head of the IRS had offered his resignation, as Republicans in the Congress said even more changes are needed at the tax agency. "I will not ...

IRS report details targeting of conservative groups

As the U.S. Attorney General ordered a criminal probe into how the IRS targeted more conservative groups, a newly released report detailed how one unit at the tax agency created a "Be On the Lookout" list for tea party type groups applying for tax exempt status. The Inspector General that ...

AP letter to Attorney General on phone records

After being notified last week that the Justice Department had secretly seized two months of records from work, cell and home phones of various Associated Press reporters, the AP sent a stern letter on Monday to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, demanding that the information be destroyed and not used ...

Obama on IRS, Benghazi

President Obama on Monday used a joint news conference with the British Prime Minister at the White House to express his opposition to the targeting of any political groups by the Internal Revenue Service and to push back hard against Republicans in Congress who are investigating the Benghazi attacks. Here ...

 
 
 

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