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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: Personal Data Collection, Lindsey O. Graham, U.S. Congress, Career and Workplace, Republican Party
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Obama exhorts Congress to act on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama prodded Congress Tuesday to send him a bill by fall remaking the nation's immigration laws, even as the Senate prepared to cast its first floor votes on the landmark measure opening a door to citizenship...
Tags: Orrin Hatch, U.S. Congress, Career and Workplace, Migration, Politics
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New Republican senator could be key vote on guns
WASHINGTON – Even before New Jersey’s new U.S. senator took the oath of office, Democrats seemed to be lobbying the Republican for his vote on a key legislative priority: expanded background checks on gun buyers. Jeffrey Chiesa, appointed...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Lobbying, Immigration, Chris Christie, Democratic Party
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John David Dyche: McConnell's half-century of hardball politics
jddyche@yahoo.comThe big news at the University of Louisville in the spring of 1963 was the school’s strong showing in the College Bowl academic quiz show. Of lesser note, but perhaps more lasting significance, Mitch McConnell was elected president of U of L’s...Tags: Parties and Movements, Teaching and Learning, Crime, Law and Justice, University of Louisville, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Obama, Congress reenact battle over student loan rates
WASHINGTON -- President Obama complained about the looming interest rate hike on student loans in a Rose Garden event Friday morning and urged Americans to call, write and tweet their Republican members of Congress to do something about it. But on...Tags: White House, Politics, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Loans
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Ehrlich distorts the facts about Obamacare
As is often his wont, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s recent column on Obamacare provided a very one-sided narrative using gross generalizations and failing to provide context for his arguments ("Lost jobs, higher costs: Obamacare hits home," May 26). Mr....Tags: John Boehner, U.S. Congress, Republican Party, Budgets and Budgeting, Health Insurance Cost
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Boxing Obama in
Greater than the risk of being accused of criminality in the three scandals now gripping the Obama administration is the peril that the president's substantive agenda is being hopelessly knocked off track. The liberal Illinois senator who entered the...Tags: Parties and Movements, Internal Revenue Service, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate
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Vote on Obama's choice to lead Labor Department delayed
WASHINGTON -- A vote on President Obama’s nominee to lead the Labor Department was delayed for an additional week, the latest roadblock for the controversial choice. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions was scheduled to...
Tags: Thomas Edward Perez, Tom Harkin, Orrin Hatch, Lamar Alexander, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Orrin Hatch, Personal Data Collection, Ted Cruz, Lindsey O. Graham, U.S. Congress
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Progress on immigration
Just when Washington looked like it was completely preoccupied with the scandals, real and imaginary, swirling around the White House, a group of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate managed the unexpected (and, these days, extraordinary): They...Tags: Demographics, Orrin Hatch, Social Issues, Lindsey O. Graham, Ted Cruz
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Oklahoma's tornado and political cheap shots
It's as predictable as it is disheartening: A red state gets hit hard by a tornado outbreak -- in this case killing at least 24 people, many of them children attending school -- and the first batch of letters from readers (most of them from Southern...
Tags: American Red Cross, Natural Disasters, Manhattan Beach (Brooklyn, New York), Mitt Romney, Career and Workplace
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