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Why the medical device tax needs to stay
The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides self-interested opponents a multitude of places to stick a wedge in and hammer away. But you'd be hard-pressed...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Employment Opportunities, Elizabeth Warren, Insurance, Medicaid
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'Ship them back,' says opponent of Senate immigration bill
Sharon Overholser knows what she would do with the 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally. "Ship them back," she said Tuesday morning at a rally in front of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Sawtelle office. About 15 fellow demonstrators held signs...
Tags: Michael Jackson, Migration, Immigration, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Politics
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Union of federal workers opposes immigration bill
WASHINGTON — Senators pushed forward Monday with changes to a sweeping immigration overhaul over the objections of a union of immigration officers that announced its opposition to the bill. The legislation, written by a bipartisan group of...
Tags: Orrin Hatch, Labor Legislation, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Immigration, Justice System
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Senators press forward on immigration bill
WASHINGTON – Senators are pushing forward on changes to a sweeping immigration overhaul, preparing to vote the bill out of the Judiciary Committee before Congress adjourns for the Memorial Day recess. The bill largely has withstood the assaults of...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Immigration, Interior Policy, Politics, Career and Workplace
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Immigration bill would restrict drone use in California
WASHINGTON – Concerned that border surveillance drones might fly over much of Southern California, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) successfully amended the proposed Senate immigration overhaul bill Tuesday to limit such flights to within three...
Tags: National Security, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration, Cocoa Beach
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Hunger strike, Yemeni dilemma could spur Guantanamo closure plans
A 100-day-old hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists has agitated international human rights advocates anew, prompting fresh calls worldwide for closure of the detention center that President Obama vowed to shutter more than...
Tags: Lobbying, Credit and Debt, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Human Rights
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Immigration bill survives first day of debate in Senate committee
WASHINGTON — After eight hours of debate, the bipartisan Senate immigration bill emerged mostly intact Thursday, despite Republican-led efforts to make substantial alterations in the first of what is certain to be many long committee meetings to...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Immigration, Justice System, Mexico, Republican Party
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Congress speaks with a loud, muddled voice on Syria
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein made headlines recently by demanding a forceful U.S. response to Syria's use of chemical weapons against its population. Less noticed was that the California Democrat wasn't urging deeper military involvement...
Tags: U.S. Military, Bob Menendez, Justice System, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bob Corker
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L.A. worries about immigration reform's cost to taxpayers
As Congress takes up immigration reform, Los Angeles County officials are voicing concerns that local taxpayers will be "left holding the bag" to pay for the brunt of healthcare and other services for the multitudes of immigrants who apply for...
Tags: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Migration, Don Knabe, Immigration, Jeff Sessions
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L.A. County officials worried about costs of immigration overhaul
WASHINGTON — Few regions will absorb the impact of future immigration reforms more than Los Angeles County, home to an estimated 1.1 million people in the country illegally, one-tenth of the nation's total. As the Senate Judiciary Committee...
Tags: Labor Legislation, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Barack Obama, Immigration, Health Insurance
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Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk Shows: 'The Confession'
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 12 - 18, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Orphan Black Paul (Dylan Bruce)...
Tags: Dick Durbin, Robert Gates, Adam Smith, Sherry Stringfield, Stephen Schwarzman
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Senate poised to debate gun control measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control efforts in Congress cleared a significant hurdle Wednesday as the Senate prepared to open what could be a weeks-long debate, even as opponents plotted a shift in strategy aimed at undermining a comprehensive package of...
Tags: Dan Coats, Joe Manchin III, Interior Policy, Democratic Party, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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