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Begich Introduces Measure to Promote Tourism
U.S. Sen. Mark Begich has introduced legislation aimed at creating jobs and promoting domestic tourism.
The measure, which several other senators have signed on to, directs the U.S. Commerce secretary to establish a competitive grant program to promote...Tags: Mark Pryor, Amy Klobuchar, Mark Begich, Kirsten Gillibrand
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CBO: Senate Immigration bill would help economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sweeping immigration legislation moving toward a vote in the Senate would boost the economy and reduce federal deficits, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, at the same time it would bestow legal status on an estimated...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Jeff Sessions, Immigration, Parties and Movements, John Boehner
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Jeff Sessions, Immigration, Parties and Movements, John Boehner
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Editorial: Immigration reform is more than border security
Federal spending on border security is at a historic high. Illegal crossings are at a 40-year low. Deportations reached record numbers in President Barack Obama's first term. Let's get on with the business of fixing the rest of our dysfunctional...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Mexico, Interior Policy, Immigration, Employment Opportunities
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Sen. Sessions on immigration bill's broken promises
The so-called Gang of Eight immigration plan now being considered by the Senate fails to live up to every major promise made by its sponsors. Far from improving the immigration system, their 1,000-page proposal would exacerbate many of its flaws. It would...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Personal Data Collection, Trials, Deportation, International Law
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Amendments to immigration overhaul bill stall in Senate
WASHINGTON — Enthusiasm in the Senate for the debate over immigration gave way to reality Wednesday as party leaders quarreled to a stalemate over how to consider dozens of proposed amendments. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's move to...Tags: Chuck Grassley, Patrick Leahy, Immigration, Parties and Movements, Christianity
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Racial profiling provision of immigration bill scrutinized
A coalition of civil liberties and immigrant-rights advocates led by Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland wants to strengthen a provision in the Senate's sweeping immigration bill that would prohibit law enforcement agencies from racial profiling. The 867-page,...
Tags: Human Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration, FBI, Migration
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Sen. Sessions' do-nothing solution on immigration [Blowback]
As an attorney and a supporter of immigration reform, I read the Op-Ed article Monday by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) hoping to learn more about principled conservative opposition to the so-called Gang of Eight's plan in the Senate. Instead, I was...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Deportation, Jeff Sessions, International Law, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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As Senate takes up immigration reform, land mines lurk
WASHINGTON — Sen. Charles E. Schumer, awakened from a nap in his office, bounded to the Senate floor, staff in tow. It was approaching 2 a.m. The New Yorker joined fellow Democratic Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, who was presiding wearily...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Jeff Sessions, Immigration, Lindsey O. Graham, Migration
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Civil rights case is obstacle for Obama's Labor Department pick
WASHINGTON — It began with an odd civil rights claim, one that now threatens to derail the confirmation of President Obama's civil rights chief to lead the Labor Department. White landlords had sued the city of St. Paul, Minn., for aggressively...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Parties and Movements, Thomas Edward Perez, Minority Groups, Civil Rights
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Stewing in his own juices
WASHINGTON — Eric Holder is in a mess of his own making. Two weeks ago, the attorney general testified to the House Judiciary Committee in categorical terms: "With regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Operation Fast and Furious, The Washington Post, Freedom of the Press, Parties and Movements
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Way past time to change tax code
During the early years of the Republic, Chief Justice John Marshall noted that, "The power to tax is the power to destroy." He might have added that it's also the power to manipulate behavior, punish political enemies and reward political friends. Indeed,...Tags: Tim Cook, Environmental Pollution, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Parties and Movements, John F. Kennedy
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