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Posted Feb 25, 2021, 2:56 pm
Ryan Knappenberger
/Cronkite News
A bipartisan group of lawmakers held a meeting of a House Judiciary subcommittee with oversight on the U.S. courts to consider the excessive caseloads that plague judges across the United States, particularly in the Ninth Circuit. The hearing came three years after the Judicial Conference recommended to Congress that at least five new judgeships be created for the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.... Read more»
Posted Apr 9, 2016, 4:12 pm
Madison Alder
/Cronkite News
The White House on Friday turned over documents to a House committee investigating the botched Operation Fast and Furious gun-trafficking probe, months after a federal court said executive privilege did not shield the records.... Read more»
Posted Jan 21, 2016, 10:56 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A .50-caliber rifle sold by a U.S. gun dealer during the botched law enforcement operation known as "Fast and Furious" was seized in the coastal hideout of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman following a raid by Mexican marines. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 19, 2016, 3:51 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Justice Department must release documents relating to the Operation Fast and Furious gun-smuggling investigation, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The botched federal probe allowed the trafficking of hundreds of firearms into Mexico by illegal straw purchasers.... Read more»
Posted Nov 5, 2014, 7:21 pm
Camaron Stevenson
/Cronkite News
The Justice Department released 64,280 pages of documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious on Monday night, more than two years after a House committee originally demanded records from the botched “gun-walking” probe.... Read more»
Posted Jul 8, 2014, 10:44 am
Tom K. Wong
/Center for American Progress
Based on a statistical analysis of unaccompanied children arrivals data, border security statistics, and violence levels in Central America, it is clear that violence in countries such as Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador—rather than deferred action or lax U.S. border enforcement—is driving the increase in unaccompanied children.... Read more»
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Posted Jun 19, 2013, 4:42 pm
Eugene Kiely
/Factcheck.org
The House Oversight Committee chairman and the ranking Democrat are overreaching in recent statements about the committee’s investigation of the IRS.... Read more»
Posted Apr 8, 2013, 7:52 pm
Andrew Becker
/Reveal/The Center for Investigative Reporting
The Border Patrol has caught a fraction of the border crossers spotted by a sophisticated sensor mounted on unmanned spy aircraft and flown over remote stretches of desert, casting doubts on claims that the area is more secure than ever.... Read more»
Posted Nov 30, 2012, 10:06 pm
Samantha Stainburn
/Global Post
The House has passed a bill that would replace the green card lottery with permanent residency visas for U.S.-trained math and science experts.... Read more»
Updated Oct 2, 2012, 2:11 pm
Dylan Smith & Rebekah Zemansky/TucsonSentinel.com
A U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed and another wounded in a shooting Tuesday morning near Naco, the agency said. Nicholas Ivie, 30, was killed after he and two other agents responded to a sensor hit near SR 80.... Read more»
Posted Sep 21, 2012, 9:18 am
Maryann Batlle
/Cronkite News Service
Members of a House committee called for more accountability from Justice Department officials Thursday, even as they praised an internal investigation of two botched “gun-walking” operations: operations Fast and Furious and Wide Receiver.... Read more»
Posted Sep 19, 2012, 6:58 pm
Maryann Batlle
/Cronkite News Service
Government officials in Phoenix and Washington, D.C., mishandled two “gun-walking” operations in Arizona and put the public in serious risk in the process, according to an inspector general’s report released Wednesday.... Read more»
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Posted Jun 29, 2012, 4:24 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
Matt Heinz, a state representative running against U.S. Rep. Ron Barber in the CD2 Democratic primary, said the new congressman's vote to hold U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in civil contempt "in no way helps Arizona with its border security issues."... Read more»
Posted Jun 28, 2012, 10:21 pm
Meghan McCarthy
/Cronkite News Service
Arizona lawmakers split along party lines Thursday as the House voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt in its probe of Operation Fast and Furious, the government’s botched “gun-walking” investigation in Phoenix.... Read more»
Posted Jun 28, 2012, 2:58 pm
Jimmy Zuma
/TucsonSentinel.com
On Fast and Furious, did Did Darrell Issa just make up the whole thing? Bombshell reporting in Fortune Magazine and the Washington Post sheds new light on the festering, wormy mess that is his probe of an ATF gun-smuggling investigation.... Read more»
Updated Jun 28, 2012, 2:58 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
GOP members of the U.S. House, joined by a few Democrats, voted 255-67 on Thursday to hold AG Holder in criminal contempt of Congress in the investigation into Fast and Furious. Many Democrats walked out during the vote, including U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva. Ron Barber voted against it.... Read more»