
While some optimistic members of Congress have recently claimed that Operation Choke Point is winding down, out in the real world small business owners like Brian Lynn are learning otherwise.
by Michael Patrick Leahy21 Apr 2015, 5:42 AM PST0

Tuesday’s subcommittee hearing on Operation Choke Point is likely to be just the beginning of even stronger efforts by members of Congress to call executive agencies to account for their ongoing abuses of power as part of Operation Choke Point. Whether Congress will choose to exercise its constitutional authority and fire out-of-control executive bureaucrats as a first step in reasserting its legitimate powers remains to be seen.
by Michael Patrick Leahy24 Mar 2015, 7:57 AM PST0

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau seems to be playing a much larger role in the Obama administration’s Operation Choke Point these days. But you wouldn’t know that from the gentle questioning of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on Capitol Hill.
by Michael Patrick Leahy6 Mar 2015, 5:11 AM PST0

Who’s holding the watchdogs accountable? The head of the CFPB shoots down a Congressmember’s question about his agency’s lavish spending. “Why does that matter to you?”
by Michael Patrick Leahy5 Mar 2015, 1:50 PM PST0

The Obama Administration’s “Operation Choke Point” is being used to target yet another legal industry: the tobacco industry.
by Michael Patrick Leahy4 Mar 2015, 5:43 PM PST0

Senators are already lining up their questions for Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General.
by Rich Tucker27 Jan 2015, 3:16 PM PST0

The threat Operation Choke Point poses to the Second Amendment has been real on paper without being tangible for quite some time. Now, however, with at least one gun store owner talking about the pressure brought to bear against his business by
by AWR Hawkins18 Jan 2015, 8:22 AM PST0

Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) confirms that Congress will hold hearings on Operation Choke Point in February. Sources tell Breitbart News that Representative Duffy may not be the only Congressional committee chairman who will hold hearings on the Obama administration’s controversial Operation Choke Point.
by Michael Patrick Leahy17 Jan 2015, 10:38 AM PST0

The President of Heritage Credit Union is denying that the National Credit Union Administration forced it to shut down a Wisconsin gun dealer’s bank account. But Brian Wise, senior adviser to the United States Consumer Coalition, says the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of the National Credit Union Administration and the Obama administration’s Operation Choke Point.
by Michael Patrick Leahy15 Jan 2015, 6:06 AM PST0

A gun dealer in Hawkins, Wisconsin says the federal government forced the Heritage Credit Union to close his recently opened bank account because he’s in the business of legally selling guns. The United States Consumer Coalition calls this just the latest example of the extralegal overreach of Operation Choke Point, the Obama administration’s effort to put industries it doesn’t like–especially gun dealers and pay day lenders–out of business.
by Michael Patrick Leahy14 Jan 2015, 5:46 AM PST0