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Immigration bill clears hurdle in Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation's immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, setting the stage for a debate next month that could lead to the biggest victory for...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Orrin Hatch, Lindsey O. Graham, Sports, Interior Policy
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Immigration reform: Closer to reality or destined for failure?
Oh, how much things have changed in just a few months. Last May, Republicans and Democrats couldn't agree on any aspect of immigration reform. But on Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a far-reaching immigration bill, clearing the way for a...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Elections, Migration, Same-Sex Marriage
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Immigration reform bill heads to full Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, but not before tilting the bill to the political right with amendments designed to...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Orrin Hatch, Interior Policy, Jeff Sessions, Marco Rubio
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Senate panel approves immigration bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Far-reaching legislation to grant a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Orrin Hatch, Lindsey O. Graham, Minority Groups, Dick Durbin
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An Alabama senator's lost cause
WASHINGTON — Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff Sessions is taking now. Bipartisan immigration legislation is making its way inexorably through the Senate Judiciary...Tags: Christopher A. Coons, Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Dick Durbin, Jeff Sessions
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Coats defends his vote on guns
Although polls nationwide and in Indiana show overwhelming support for tightening background checks for gun purchases,Sen. Dan Coats, Indiana's Republican senior senator, voted "no." He says most constituents who contacted him wanted him to do just that....
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Dan Coats, Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Joe Manchin III
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Matthew Rozsa: Why won't 'birthers' question citizenship of Sen. Ted Cruz?
From a strictly political standpoint, the past month has been pretty good for Sen. Ted Cruz. First the tea party darling further endeared himself to grass-roots rightists by claiming he had privately told Republican senators who supported the gun-buyer...Tags: Grover Cleveland, Tea Party Movement, Republican Party, Polls, Harry Reid
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GOP overplays its hand
WASHINGTON — At the end of a truly dismal week in his presidency, President Obama remains lucky in one crucial category: his opposition. It has been only a matter of days since two scandals — the IRS harassment of conservative groups and the...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Internal Revenue Service, Human Rights, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Minority Groups
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Special session talk pervades the Capitol, but Perry isn't talking
Austin American-StatesmanThe likelihood of a special legislative session during the summer appeared to grow Thursday, as lawmakers began predicting they will return to Austin in June to address the politically touchy issue of redistricting. If they come back to affirm the...Tags: Regional Authority, Elections, Lawyers, Justice System, Parties and Movements
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Bachmann revels in 229-195 House vote to repeal Obamacare
Star TribuneFor Rep. Michele Bachmann, Thursday hearkened back to the halcyon days of 2009, when her Tea Party supporters flocked to the U.S. Capitol and she led Republican opposition to President Obama's health care law. Tea Party rally? Check. House vote to...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Internal Revenue Service, Healthcare Laws, Political Fundraising, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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New Texas senator is commercial space supporter
WASHINGTON -- The last time Congress wrote a blueprint for NASA policy, a major powerbroker in the 2010 proceedings was then-U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas. Aligned with traditional aerospace companies, Hutchison used the bill to force the White...Tags: U.S. Congress, SpaceX, Space Programs, Science, NASA
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Guillermo Martinez: Immigration currently takes back seat, but Rubio's task remains hard
The second term curse that many believe affect many presidents has kept discussion of President Barack Obama's agenda off the front pages and out of the television newscasts. Instead of covering the budget sequestration, journalists are covering what...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Tea Party Movement, Jay Carney, Marco Rubio, Migration
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