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U.S. Border Patrol Senior Agent B.T. Hick and his dog Mirza, left, inspect a car at a check point outside Organ Pipe Cactus National Park in Why, Ariz., Wednesday, May 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

House calls for immigration enforcement in Central America

A House Republican task force Wednesday unveiled a $1.5 billion plan to ease the border crisis, including launching law enforcement operations in Central America and Mexico to stop illegal immigrants before they reach the U.S.

July 23, 2014
Rep. Andy Harris, Maryland Republican. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

GOP unrest growing over Obama’s border plan

Rank-and-file House Republicans warned Monday they won't back emergency spending to address unaccompanied young immigrants flooding into the U.S. until President Obama secures the border, reviving the impasse that helped doom comprehensive immigration reform.

July 21, 2014

Lois Lerner emails reveal gaping open-records loophole

The Lois G. Lerner emails released this month revealed a potentially huge loophole in federal open-records practices when an IRS tech staffer acknowledged that the agency doesn't regularly store — and never checks — instant message chats as official government records.

July 20, 2014
President Obama pauses while speaking about the situation in Ukraine in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on July 18, 2014. Obama called for immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, demands credible investigation of downed plane. (Associated Press)

Obama calls for Ukraine cease-fire, blames Russia for downed passenger jet

President Obama on Friday called for all sides to "adhere to an immediate cease-fire" in eastern Ukraine and for international investigators to receive unfettered access to the crash site of a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet that was shot down in territory held by Russian-backed separatist rebels.

July 18, 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin informed President Obama of the downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet near the end of a telephone call about U.S. sanctions. (Associated Press)

Putin moves quickly to control of Malaysia Airlines crash information

Russian President Vladimir Putin loomed over the catastrophe of a downed Malaysia Airlines passenger jet from the start Thursday, as Russian news agencies reported that he was the first to inform President Obama of the crash and he quickly placed blame on his adversaries in the Ukrainian government.

July 17, 2014
President Obama enters the White House briefing room Wednesday to announce a new series of sanctions against Russia in response to the crisis in Ukraine. The sanctions are aimed at Russian energy, financial and defense companies. (associated press)

Obama rolls out new sanctions on Russia’s energy and financial sectors

President Obama announced new economic sanctions Wednesday against Russia, hitting major energy, financial and defense companies in a bid to end fighting in eastern Ukraine at the end of a day in which the Pentagon accused the Kremlin of gathering more forces at the border and a British newspaper reported that Moscow would reactivate a Cold War era spy base in Cuba.

July 16, 2014
** FILE ** U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy makes remarks during a news conference Wednesday, May 21, 2014, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

EPA pulls back from plan to garnish paychecks

The Environmental Protection Agency bowed to fierce criticism Wednesday and announced that it had hit the breaks on a fast-tracked plan to collect fines by garnishing paychecks of accused polluters.

July 16, 2014
Rep. Tom Graves, Georgia Republican, proposed an amendment as a police rider on a $30.2 billion spending bill for natural resources agencies that would block the Environmental Protection Agency from garnishing wages to collect fines from Americans without a court order. Some Republican senators have demanded the EPA immediately withdraw the rule.

Lawmakers move to block EPA wage-garnishing rule

Lawmakers pushed back Tuesday against the Environmental Protection Agency's move to garnish the paychecks of accused polluters, advancing a bill that would block the new authority.

July 15, 2014
**FILE** Ed Royce, California Republican (Associated Press)

Rep. Ed Royce pushes for new nuke sanctions on Iran

As nuke talks with Iran faltered Tuesday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce called for the Obama administration to start working on new sanctions against the Islamic state.

July 15, 2014
"What I think would have prevented that from happening is sufficient border security on the ground," Sen. Marco Rubio says. (Associated Press)

Rubio: Senate immigration bill won’t stop border surge

Sen. Marco Rubio says the immigration bill he helped push through the Senate would not have stopped the surge of children crossing the southwestern border illegally, breaking with his "Gang of Eight" co-authors who are urging the bill's passage.

July 14, 2014
AP10ThingsToSee- Detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Brownsville,Texas. CPB provided media tours Wednesday of two locations in Brownsville and Nogales, Ariz., that have been central to processing the more than 47,000 unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally since Oct. 1. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool)

Westminster resists hosting immigrant children

Add the small town of Westminster, Maryland, to the growing list of places where the Obama administration canceled plans to send unaccompanied immigrant children pouring across the border.

July 14, 2014
Under Gina McCarthy, The EPA has been flexing its regulatory muscle, collecting more fines and hitting individuals with penalties for violating environmental rules. (Associated Press)

GOP senators knock EPA power grab

The Environmental Protection Agency's attempt to quietly assume power to garnishing paychecks of accused polluters ran into firm opposition Thursday from top Senate Republicans.

July 10, 2014
** FILE ** Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, questions Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen as lawmakers continue their probe of whether tea party groups were improperly targeted for increased scrutiny by the IRS, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ralph Nader raps Darrell Issa for ‘showboating’

Consumer crusader Ralph Nader on Wednesday chastised Rep. Darrell Issa for squandering his tenure as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee by pursuing the IRS scandal and other "fanciful allegations."

July 9, 2014