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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: U.S. Congress, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Crime, Law and Justice, Congressional Budget Office, Labor Legislation
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EPA confirmation delay raises questions about U.S. carbon rules
ReutersBy Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - With a Senate vote on President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency still in limbo, speculation is rising about the fate of a proposed emissions rule for new power plants...Tags: U.S. Congress, Metal and Mineral, Barack Obama, Gina McCarthy, Mining
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Newtown victim's sister turns gun control 'accidental activist'
ReutersBy Edith Honan June 14 (Reuters) - Jillian Soto was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on a New England highway when she learned over Facebook that her older sister Vicky, a first-grade teacher in Newtown, Connecticut, had died in a shooting. In the...Tags: Health and Safety at School, U.S. Congress, Michael Bloomberg, Virginia Tech, U.S. Senate
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U.S. lawmakers renew push for gun control six months after Newtown
ReutersBy Paige Gance WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - Gun-control advocates renewed their push for stricter measures on Thursday, a day before the six-month anniversary of the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which horrified the public and sparked a...Tags: U.S. Congress, Elizabeth Esty, Crime, Law and Justice, Adam Lanza, Personal Weapon Control
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Lawmakers renew push for gun control six months after Newtown
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gun-control advocates renewed their push for stricter measures on Thursday, a day before the six-month anniversary of the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which horrified the public and sparked a national debate on guns....Tags: U.S. Congress, Richard Blumenthal, Elizabeth Esty, Crime, Law and Justice, Adam Lanza
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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: Michael F. Bennet, Christianity, Patrick Leahy, Religion and Belief, Labor Legislation
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Newtown families push for gun control, go back to Congress
WASHINGTON — Although the drive for tougher gun controls has faded into the background, families of victims in the Newtown school shooting returned to the Capitol on Wednesday to show they are not giving up. Advocacy groups on both sides of the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Michael Bloomberg, Lobbying
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NSA debate pits far left, right against the middle
WASHINGTON (AP) — Revelations of massive government collections of Americans' phone and email records have reinvigorated an odd-couple political alliance of the far left and right. A number of Democratic civil liberties activists, along with...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Internal Revenue Service, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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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: U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, White House, U.S. Senate
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Selective memory on judicial nominations
The Sun has developed a bad case of selective memory when it comes to judicial nominations ("Judicial profiling," June 5). When President George W. Bush nominated candidates for judgeships during the years that Republicans controlled the Senate, the...Tags: George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Elections, Politics, Republican Party
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National Journal on immigration: 'The Two Faces of Marco Rubio'
Takiing NamesLast week, I penned a piece that said Marco Rubio finally has a chance to prove his critics wrong and show that he's more than a lightweight when it comes to serious policy and meaningful legislation ("On immigration, Rubio has chance to prove his mettle"...Tags: Migration, Immigration, Justice System, Orrin Hatch, Elections
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Boehner: Congress can do immigration this year
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Senate ready to cast the first floor votes on a landmark immigration bill, House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday he thinks there's a good chance the legislation can be signed into law "by the end of the year." Ahead of...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, U.S. Senate, Career and Workplace
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