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Silicon Valley intensifies lobbying on immigration bill
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eager to secure more visas for skilled foreign workers, tech companies have stepped up their lobbying this week in support of a comprehensive U.S. immigration reform bill. Human resources executives from Adobe , Broadcom , Intel...Tags: Labor Legislation, U.S. House of Representatives, Orrin Hatch, Microsoft Corporation, Lobbying
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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: Migration, Extradition, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, The Washington Post, National Security
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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: Labor Legislation, Migration, Michael F. Bennet, Harry Reid, Patrick Leahy
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Senate Republicans grill Jones, nominee for ATF post
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)Minnesota U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones, President Barack Obama's pick to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, came under scorching criticism Tuesday from Republican senators questioning his management style and his record on gun...Tags: Operation Fast and Furious, Firearms, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Lobbying, Al Franken
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Just follow the numbers
Paul GreenbergData-mining is the sophisticated mathematical analysis of large masses of numbers in search of telltale patterns. I won't pretend to know how it works. At the first mention of algorithms, to borrow a phrase from the late great Sam Goldwyn, that master...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Manhattan (New York City), Metal and Mineral, Government, Rand Paul
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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: Labor Legislation, Washington, DC, Orrin Hatch, Republican Party, Marco Rubio
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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: Labor Legislation, Same-Sex Marriage, Migration, Extradition, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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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: Labor Legislation, Migration, Dick Durbin, Lindsey O. Graham, Republican Party
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The immigration mover and shaker you don't know
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON While Sen. Marco Rubio may be among the most prominent faces of the immigration battle in Washington, there is another Cuban-American from Miami who has been almost as critical to guiding the contentious proposal through the perils of Capitol...Tags: Dwayne Johnson, U.S. House of Representatives, Chris Kattan, Republican Party, Marco Rubio
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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, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Carl Levin, Occupy Wall Street
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Senate immigration bill teeters as it tilts rightward
WASHINGTON — The Senate immigration bill is poised to undergo a decidedly rightward shift in an attempt to attract more Republican votes, but that threatens to erode bipartisan consensus. Democratic and Republican authors of the bill have...
Tags: Joe Manchin III, Migration, Orrin Hatch, National Security, Republican Party
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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: State of the Union Address, News Media, NBC (tv network), Prosecution, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
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