By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While Congressional Republicans pledge to fight President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, there’s little they can do, GOP leaders acknowledged Tuesday. The USA Today reports that Republicans have limited options. “We’re looking at a variety of options, both for right now and when Republicans control both houses of the Congress next…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has a tough task ahead – defending President Obama’s executive order on immigration to combative Republicans. Fox News reports that Johnson is set to appear today before the House Homeland Security Committee to discuss the executive actions. “The reality is that, given our limited resources, these people…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Although President Obama is preparing to take executive action on immigration, an incoming GOP Senate chairman has pledged to create a stronger border security bill, the Associated Press reports. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin is about to become chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. His plan is to…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Did one of the top leaders of the DEA intimidate members of Congress while discussing a prescription drug bill? That’s the claim by two Republicans – Reps. Marsha Blackburn, Tenn., and Tom Marino, Pa. – who say in a letter to the Justice Department’s inspector general that DEA Deputy Assistant Administrator Joe…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Whoever is going to succeed Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is likely to face a contentious Senate, the Washington Post reports. Some Republicans even called for a delay because of the potential of midterm elections swinging in favor of the GOP in November. “Allowing Democratic senators, many of whom will…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Libyan government is barring the FBI from arresting suspects in last year’s deadly terror attack on the U.S. that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, CNN reports. A top State Department official delivered the news to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Republicans expressed shock that…
By Michael A. Memoli Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON – B. Todd Jones is on the cusp of becoming the first Senate-confirmed director of the ATF on Thursday, after a fierce lobbying effort successfully swayed a single Republican lawmaker to change her vote. Democrats had expected a close result, but nonetheless were confident they had the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A report issued late Monday night by the Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform tries to debunk suggestions by Republicans that high level appointees at the Justice Department conceived and directed the very flawed ATF Operation Fast and Furious. It places the blame for the operation squarely…
