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Senators press forward on immigration bill
WASHINGTON – Senators are pushing forward on changes to a sweeping immigration overhaul, preparing to vote the bill out of the Judiciary Committee before Congress adjourns for the Memorial Day recess. The bill largely has withstood the assaults of...
Tags: Interior Policy, Personal Data Collection, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Migration, Immigration
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U.S. panel votes to speed up airport fingerprinting of immigrants
Reuters* Major U.S. airports would be first to install equipment * Negotiations continue over high-tech visas By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - High-tech systems for tracking the movements of immigrants and other foreigners when leaving the...Tags: Interior Policy, Chuck Schumer, National Government, Personal Data Collection, Justice System
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Get-tough GOP now says Justice went too far
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.In virtual lockstep on topics such as guns, God and limited government, Southern Republicans in the Senate differ on how to balance national security interests with First Amendment protections. Last week, lawmakers from Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and...Tags: National Government, Justice System, Chuck Schumer, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Johnny Isakson
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An Alabama senator's lost cause
WASHINGTON — Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff Sessions is taking now. Bipartisan immigration legislation is making its way inexorably through the Senate Judiciary...Tags: Chuck Schumer, Justice System, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Parties and Movements, Christopher A. Coons
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Immigration reform bill heads to full 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, but not before tilting the bill to the political right with amendments designed to...Tags: Interior Policy, Personal Data Collection, U.S. Senate, Al Franken, Migration
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Union of federal workers opposes immigration bill
WASHINGTON — Senators pushed forward Monday with changes to a sweeping immigration overhaul over the objections of a union of immigration officers that announced its opposition to the bill. The legislation, written by a bipartisan group of...
Tags: Interior Policy, Justice System, Personal Data Collection, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Parties and Movements
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Farmers hope immigration bill yields more foreign farm workers
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Walk the aisles of any neighborhood grocery store today and you're as likely to find tomatoes picked in Sinaloa, Mexico, as Central California or oranges from Sao Paulo, Brazil, as Bradenton, Fla. Farmers across the country warn that...Tags: Interior Policy, Personal Data Collection, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Migration, Immigration
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Obama budget cuts deficit $1.1 trillion over decade: CBO
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Near-term U.S. deficits under President Barack Obama's 2014 budget plan would be higher than those forecast by the Congressional Budget Office this week but $1.1 trillion lower than what it estimates over the coming decade, CBO said...Tags: Public Finance, Weather Reports, Washington, DC, U.S. Senate, Budgets and Budgeting
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Rising revenues to shrink deficit rapidly through 2015: CBO
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The deficit is shrinking considerably more quickly than previously thought, the Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday in a report that could sap Congress' sense of urgency to find further budget savings. In one fell swoop,...Tags: Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Internal Revenue Service, Congressional Budget Office, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
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Senators tighten student visa rules in immigration bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee amended the sweeping immigration bill Tuesday to tighten student visa rules in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. The committee, which is trying to get through the 844-page bill by the end of the week, also...
Tags: Interior Policy, Heritage Foundation, Personal Data Collection, Migration, Immigration
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Column: Ghosts of Christmas past seen in immigration debate
WASHINGTON — Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol" is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment. It also is an economic manifesto that Dickens hoped would hit with "twenty thousand times the force" of a political tract. It concerned a 19th-...Tags: Heritage Foundation, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Washington, DC, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Illegal Immigrants
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Boomers need immigrants
The Senate Judiciary Committee took up comprehensive immigration reform late last week. And, as expected, opponents are already rushing to derail it, arguing that any bill that legalizes the vast majority of undocumented immigrants in the United States...
Tags: Heritage Foundation, Google Inc., Justice System, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Congressional Budget Office
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