Find Out If Your Lawmaker Voted to End Operation Choke Point
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Feb. 5, 2016 |
| Good morning from Washington, where the House voted to shut down a secretive Justice Department operation aimed at killing certain businesses. Kelsey Harkness, who began investigating the program 18 months ago, has the latest. A court ordered the IRS to pay legal fees for a merchant whose savings it confiscated. Melissa Quinn reports. And Leah Jessen raises the question of why "60 Minutes" celebrates hidden-camera stings—but not of Planned Parenthood. Plus: Two lawmakers gear up to fix Congress and two Super Bowl quarterbacks look to God. |
NewsFind Out If Your Lawmaker Voted to End Operation Choke PointRep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, called Operation Choke Point an "outrage," saying, "For legally constituted businesses to have to fear that in the dark of night they're going to be shut down by the awesome power of the Obama administration is an outrage." |
NewsJudge Makes Government Pay Legal Fees to Store Owner Whose $107,700 Was Seized by IRSLyndon McLellan, who owns a convenience store in Fairmont, N.C., had won back the $107,700 the Internal Revenue Service took from him in 2014. But he hadn't been reimbursed for the more than $20,000 he spent fighting the government to get his own money back. |
NewsWhy Is This Undercover Sting Celebrated by '60 Minutes' but Not Those Planned Parenthood Videos?Investigative tactics featured on CBS News' "60 Minutes" bear an eerie resemblance to the undercover operation of a pro-life activist indicted last week for his role in secretly recorded videos in which Planned Parenthood officials talk about harvesting aborted babies for tissue and organs. |
CommentaryObama's Response to Surge of Illegal Immigrants Is Inadequate"More than 152,000 unaccompanied minors and families are projected to illegally cross our southwest border this year," writes House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. |
NewsHere's How Mike Lee and Jeb Hensarling Say Congress Can Fix the Federal Government"The federal government is broken," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said. In his view, the problem isn't just with President Obama. Instead, Congress has surrendered its own authority to the executive branch and unelected regulators. |
News14 Inspiring Quotes About Faith From 2 Quarterbacks Who Will Face Off in Super BowlQuarterbacks Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos and Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers are both men of faith. |
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