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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.

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A guard walks past the U.S. Capitol in the morning in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. (Associated Press/File)

Legislative Activity Index: House speed overcomes lagging Senate

Big-ticket items like an Obamacare repeal or tax reform may elude them, but lawmakers are still off to a fast start to the current Congress, according to The Washington Times Legislative Activity index, which shows a newly unified government in Washington passing bills at a clip not seen since the early days of the Obama administration. Published July 12, 2017

This Thursday June 15, 2017, photo provided by No More Deaths/No Más Muertes, an organization that provides care for migrants along the Mexican border, shows Border Patrol agents detaining an unidentified person in the Arizona desert. Border Patrol agents descended on the medical camp set up in the Arizona desert near the border to provide refuge and water for migrants in the scorching summer heat, arresting four men who were receiving aid after spending several days in the desert. (No More Deaths/No Más Muertes via AP)

Activists sue DHS to force more asylum claims

Immigrant-rights groups sued the Homeland Security Department on Wednesday, claiming border officers are illegally stymieing desperate migrants' attempts to seek asylum in the U.S. Published July 12, 2017

President Trump wants $1.6 billion to build 60 miles of new barriers, 500 more Border Patrol agents, 1,000 more agents and officers to handle deportations from the interior of the U.S. and enough money to maintain an average of 44,000 detention beds to hold illegal immigrants. (Associated Press)

Republicans set up border wall fight in House with homeland security bill

Republican House leaders on Tuesday earmarked $1.6 billion to begin building President Trump's border wall next year, including the money in their homeland security spending bill, setting up a fight with Democrats who have vowed to fight any funding for the wall, even if it means sending the federal government into a partial shutdown. Published July 11, 2017

A family looks towards metal bars marking the U.S. border where it meets the Pacific Ocean in Tijuana, Mexico, on March 2, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

House GOP allocates $1.6 billion for Trump border wall in 2018

House Republicans said Tuesday they've included $1.6 billion in funding for President Trump's border wall in their new homeland security spending bill, setting up fight with Democrats who have vowed to block any wall funding -- even if it means sending the government into a partial shutdown. Published July 11, 2017

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2016 file photo, a laptop is seen in Las Vegas. The Homeland Security Department is set to announce new security measures Wednesday for international flights bound to the United States, which could lead to a lifting of a ban on laptops and other electronics from passenger cabins from certain airports. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Six foreign airports earn their way off DHS’s laptop ban

Six of the 10 airports that faced the laptop ban have already improved their screening enough to earn their way off the ban list, Homeland Security announced Tuesday, as it tries to raise the global level of explosives screening. Published July 11, 2017

Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina has put a "hold" on Lee Francis Cissna, the nominee for director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, to try to pressure Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly to bend to the senator's will and quickly approve thousands of H-2B visas. (Associated Press/File)

Thom Tillis puts hold on nomination over H-2B visas

The White House complained Monday about Democratic obstruction of President Trump's nominees, but a Republican senator is the chief roadblock for Mr. Trump's pick to head the legal immigration service, hoping to use the position as leverage to force the administration to approve more foreign guest-workers this year. Published July 10, 2017

FILE - In this June 13, 2013, file photo, hands from Daniel Zambrano of Tijuana, Mexico, hold on to the bars that make up the border wall separating the U.S. and Mexico as the border meets the Pacific Ocean in San Diego. The state legislature is debating more than a dozen bills, sponsored by Democrats, to resist President Donald Trump's immigration agenda, particularly his promises to increase deportations and build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Illegal immigration spikes along U.S.-Mexico border

Illegal immigration across the southwest border rose yet again in June, according to the latest Homeland Security figures released Friday that show a noticeable jump over the past two months. Published July 7, 2017

In this April 7, 2017, file photo, former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks during a conference on policy and blacks at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Loretta Lynch says she didn’t speak to Clinton campaign on FBI probe

Emails purporting to show former Attorney General Loretta Lynch assuring Democratic operatives that the FBI would limit its investigation into the 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton are not authentic, a spokesman for Ms. Lynch told Congress late Thursday. Published July 6, 2017

FILE- In this June 30, 2017, file photo, critics of President Donald Trump's travel ban hold signs during a news conference with Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin in Honolulu. A federal judge in Hawaii on Thursday, July 6, left Trump administration rules in place for a travel ban on citizens from six majority-Muslim countries. U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson denied an emergency motion filed by Hawaii asking him to clarify what the U.S. Supreme Court meant by a "bona fide" relationship in its ruling last month. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)

Derrick Watson lets Trump travel ban rules stand

A federal judge delivered President Trump yet another legal victory on his travel ban executive order late Thursday, allowing to remain in effect the White House's revised rules that cast a fairly narrow screen on who will be admitted as refugees or from six targeted countries. Published July 6, 2017

Eric C. Conn, one unscrupulous judge, pleaded guilty to paying off a network of doctors and psychologists to write fake medical reviews, and then paying the ALJ to rubber-stamp the applications. He is now on the lam. (Associated Press/File)

Social Security finds difficulty firing bad employees

A Social Security judge has collected somewhere in the neighborhood of half a million dollars over the past three years while sitting at home on administrative leave, according to a report that details just how much trouble the agency faces in trying to fire bad employees. Published July 6, 2017

In a photo from Tuesday, June 13, 2017, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., joined by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., far right, and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., comments on health care for veterans during a news conference at Republican National Committee Headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Steve Scalise readmitted to ICU over infection fears

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise took a turn for the worse Wednesday night, according to a statement released by his congressional office that said he's been readmitted to the intensive care unit. Published July 5, 2017