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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: Migration, John McCain, Parties and Movements, Career and Workplace, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Led by Republicans, House passes measure to limit abortions
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives passed legislation to enact stringent restrictions on abortion Tuesday, acting on an issue championed by social conservatives in the Republican majority and inviting a possible new challenge to...
Tags: Virginia Foxx, Incest, Social Issues, Jerrold Nadler, Parties and Movements
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Debt-limit fight heats up with Pay Your Bills measure
WASHINGTON — As Congress readied for a new battle over raising the debt limit, Sen. Barbara Boxer announced legislation that would prevent lawmakers from being paid if they do not increase the nation's borrowing authority. "It is an American value...
Tags: Finance, Labor Day, Economy, Business and Finance, Jack Lew, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Senate opens debate on immigration overhaul
WASHINGTON — With an overwhelming vote, the Senate on Tuesday launched debate on an ambitious overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, as Republicans, most of whom have not yet embraced the effort, declined to stand in the way of bringing it to...
Tags: Heritage Foundation, Migration, Marco Rubio, Parties and Movements, Elections
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Snowden's leak of NSA secrets reveals deeper problem
Please. Let's stop focusing on the overpaid, tormented young man who last week revealed the National Security Agency's Power Point Plan for Total Electronic World Domination. Let's focus instead on what our nation's wiretapping agency has actually...
Tags: National Government, Verizon Communications, Electronics, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Mark Zuckerberg
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Attacking Edward Snowden misses the bigger problem
Please. Let’s stop focusing on the overpaid, tormented young man who last week revealed the National Security Administration’s Power Point Plan for Total Electronic World Domination. Let’s focus instead on what our nation’s...
Tags: National Government, Verizon Communications, Electronics, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Mark Zuckerberg
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NSA leaker Edward Snowden: He's no Daniel Ellsberg
Edward J. Snowden is "a low-level disenchanted punk," says LA Observed's Marc Lacter. In the New York Times, David Brooks notes that Snowden wasn't very neighborly or much of a loving son to his mother. A front-page story Tuesday in the L.A. Times begins:...
Tags: Culture, United Kingdom, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Prisons, Dianne Feinstein
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Obama presidency, born in hope, is boxed in by unrelenting GOP
At dinner a couple of days ago, my friend Janey Ireson said how disappointed she is that Barack Obama has been hemmed in by congressional Republicans and blocked from fulfilling the high expectations of those who supported his rise to the presidency....
Tags: George W. Bush, Awards and Prizes, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Nobel Prize Awards
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Newtown families push for gun control, go back to Congress
WASHINGTON — Although the drive for tougher gun controls has faded into the background, families of victims in the Newtown school shooting returned to the Capitol on Wednesday to show they are not giving up. Advocacy groups on both sides of the...
Tags: Elections, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Jeffrey Chiesa, Jeff Flake, Joe Biden
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McManus: 'Tea party' tempest brewing
The "tea party" is back and is brewing trouble for the Republican establishment. After the GOP debacle in the 2012 election, when Republicans not only failed to win the presidency but blew a chance to take over the Senate, party leaders paused to...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Elections, Karl Rove, Republican Party, Eric Cantor
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Opponents of immigration reform face changed landscape
WASHINGTON — It's not as if Republican Rep. Steve King missed the message from party leaders about how supporting an immigration overhaul could help boost the GOP's standing among Latino voters. He just isn't buying it. "I'm incredulous with the...
Tags: Migration, Entertainment, Elections, Republican Party, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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House vote opens immigration divide
WASHINGTON — The partisan divide over immigration was exposed Thursday as House Republicans voted to stop funding the Obama administration program that has halted deportation of young immigrants who are in high school or college or have served in...
Tags: Migration, Parties and Movements, International Law, Career and Workplace, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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