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Ag stakeholders reach crucial deal on immigration reform
A bipartisan group of senators known as the “Gang of Eight” seems to have finally figured out how to fix our country's broken immigration system and provide a workable system for workers to legally perform important tasks on farms and ranches year round....Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Chuck Schumer, Michael F. Bennet, Immigration, Orrin Hatch
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Senate rejects gun background check measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...
Tags: Jeff Sessions, Max Baucus, Mark Kirk, Republican Party, Shootings
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Senate votes down Feinstein's assault weapons ban
WASHINGTON — In a final appeal to her colleagues to reinstate an assault weapons ban, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) displayed on the Senate floor Wednesday a New York Daily News front page from the day after her ban was pulled from a broader...
Tags: Interior Policy, Chuck Grassley, Mark Kirk, Weaponry, Shootings
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Senate showdown set on gun control
WASHINGTON — After four months of debate and maneuvering, the Senate headed for a showdown over gun control — a series of back-to-back votes on rival plans Wednesday afternoon that could end in the collapse of the entire effort. The...
Tags: Frank Lautenberg, Max Baucus, Mark Kirk, Republican Party, Lobbying
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Quentin Kopp, no longer on board this bullet train
There's a short piece of Bay Area freeway, Interstate 380, named for Quentin Kopp, which is ironic considering that he's beaten the drum for public transit — specifically bullet trains — for years. But then again, he's always been a...
Tags: Political Corruption, Tejon Ranch Corporation, Amtrak, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Railway Transportation
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Congress reacts to Boston Marathon bombings
WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders reflected with grief on the tragic loss of life in the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday, but had few immediate answers as to the nature of the attack. The flag over the U.S. Capitol was at half staff and...
Tags: Sports, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), U.S. Senate, John Kerry, Chris Murphy
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Obama: Unclear who is responsible for explosions
WASHINGTON (AP) — A stony-faced President Barack Obama declared that those responsible for the explosions at the Boston Marathon "will feel the full weight of justice," but he urged a nervous nation not to jump to conclusions. Top lawmakers declared...
Tags: Robert Mueller, U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Janet Napolitano, FBI, Barack Obama
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California Democrats blast efforts to overhaul schools
SACRAMENTO — California Democrats on Sunday condemned efforts led by members of their own party to overhaul the nation's schools, arguing that groups such as StudentsFirst and Democrats for Education Reform are fronts for Republicans and corporate...
Tags: Washington, DC, Students, Republican Party, Gavin Newsom, Social Issues
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Manchin's plan for explaining gun proposal: 'The longer the better'
WASHINGTON – One of the senators behind the compromise proposal to expand background checks on gun purchases will mount a Senate floor sales pitch Monday, part of a lobbying effort to ensure passage for the key piece of a larger guns bill when it...
Tags: Interior Policy, Joe Manchin III, Susan Collins, Television Industry, NBC (tv network)
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California Democrats gather in Sacramento to celebrate victories
California Democrats, gathered for their annual convention in Sacramento this weekend, are expected to celebrate their victories -- holding every statewide elected office, winning super majorities in both houses of the Legislature in November and...Tags: Interior Policy, John Burton, Barbara Boxer, Barack Obama, Gavin Newsom
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Accord reached on farmworkers for immigration bill
WASHINGTON — Agreement was reached late Friday between farm labor unions and growers on one of the last major components of a sweeping immigration bill being drafted in the Senate — a deal that would set the terms of wages, visas and working...Tags: Interior Policy, Michael F. Bennet, Immigration, Orrin Hatch, Migration
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Immigration bill clears hurdle on farmworkers
WASHINGTON — Senators writing a landmark immigration bill broke a logjam between farmworker unions and growers Thursday, reaching a tentative agreement on the number of future agricultural visas and pay scales for foreign farmworkers. Labor unions...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Agriculture, Politics, Migration, Labor Legislation
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