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Budget report gives key push to Senate immigration bill
WASHINGTON — The sweeping immigration overhaul bill received a boost Tuesday as senators appeared to narrow their differences on border security and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported that newly legal immigrants would provide...
Tags: Bob Corker, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, John Thune, Parties and Movements
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New abortion rules assume women are really stupid
The House Judiciary Committee, dominated by Republican men who still have not learned to avoid the subject of rape and pregnancy, took up the issue of abortion this week. Normally, the news about abortion focuses on the machinations of conservative...
Tags: Abortion, Mike Lee, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Kermit Gosnell
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Snowden smuggled out data on thumb drive, officials say
WASHINGTON — Former National Security Agency contract employee Edward Snowden used a computer thumb drive, a portable data storage device that is supposedly barred inside the spying agency, to smuggle highly classified documents out of an NSA...
Tags: China, Robert Mueller, U.S. Congress, John Conyers, Jr., Crime, Law and Justice
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FBI director defends secret surveillance programs
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller III strongly defended the government’s secret collection of millions of phone logs and emails Thursday, saying federal judges, Congress and the Department of Justice inspector general’s office...
Tags: Robert Mueller, U.S. Congress, Edward Snowden, Judges, John Conyers, Jr.
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McManus: Head-in-the-sand Congress
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) , a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal government new powers to investigate potential...
Tags: F James Jr Sensenbrenner, Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Congress, Saxby Chambliss, Judges
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Online tax cheats: Being young is no excuse
Contrary to what it claimed Thursday, the libertarian advocacy group Generation Opportunity hasn't killed a Senate-passed bill to compel most online retailers to collect sales taxes. But the group seems to have done its best to mislead and confuse the...
Tags: U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Congress, Apple iTunes, Crime, Law and Justice
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GOP lawmakers criticize Atty. Gen. Holder over leak probes
WASHINGTON — Republicans sharply criticized Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. on Sunday for his handling of an investigation into a possible leak of classified information to a Fox News reporter, suggesting that Holder lied to Congress last month in...
Tags: News Media, F James Jr Sensenbrenner, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Fox News Channel (tv network), U.S. Congress
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Holder pledges to probe IRS handling of conservative groups
WASHINGTON – Testifying on Capitol Hill, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. promised a thorough criminal investigation of the targeting of conservative organizations by the IRS that will look at potential civil rights violations and false statements that...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Steve Chabot, Taxation
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White House to renew bid for bill to protect journalists
WASHINGTON — Facing questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of reporters' phone records, the White House says that it will renew its push for legislation that would offer federal protections to journalists and their sources....
Tags: U.S. Congress, Prosecution, Government, Carney (music group), White House
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Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...
Tags: News Media, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Central Intelligence Agency, Lawyers, Police Investigations
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House feels the heat on immigration reform
WASHINGTON — Committee approval of a sweeping Senate immigration overhaul has put pressure on the House, where Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and top leaders have been pushing a bipartisan group of lawmakers to produce its own bill. House...
Tags: Immigration, Health Insurance Cost, Crime, Law and Justice, Steve King, Raul Labrador
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House Speaker Boehner unlikely to support Internet sales tax bill
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John A. Boehner said he probably won't support legislation allowing states to require that larger retailers collect sales taxes on Internet purchases. And a key House committee chairman said his panel would take a...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, E-Commerce Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Amazon.com Inc., Justice System
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