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Silicon Valley intensifies lobbying on U.S. immigration bill
Reuters* Bill boosts visa numbers for skilled foreign workers * Labor groups seek protection for U.S. workers By Rachelle Younglai and Caren Bohan WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - Eager to secure more visas for skilled foreign workers, tech companies have...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Employment Opportunities, Career and Workplace, Personal Data Collection, Justice System
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Employment Opportunities, Career and Workplace, Personal Data Collection, Justice System
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Will Minnesota make a marriage equality trifecta?
Six months after Maryland, Maine and Washington voters endorsed same-sex marriage at the ballot box, two more states have adopted laws allowing gay couples to marry, and a third is poised to join them. On Tuesday, lawmakers in Delaware adopted a same-...Tags: Minority Groups, Social Issues, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Senate
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White House fights back on IRS as GOP keeps up pressure
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON — A senior White House aide insisted Sunday that President Obama learned only from news reports that an IRS office had singled out dozens of tea party organizations and other conservative groups for questionable scrutiny, while...Tags: Prosecution, White House, Tea Party Movement, Rand Paul, Internal Revenue Service
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Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'Doctor Who'
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 19 - 25, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Doctor Who The Doctor's (Matt Smith)...
Tags: Thomas E Price, Kanye West, Guy Fieri, Afghanistan, Dennis J. Kucinich
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Mitch McConnell on 'Meet the Press'; Paul Ryan on 'Fox News Sunday'
Staff writerThe Sunday morning talk shows will find a lot to talk about in the Washington controversies over the IRS, the Department of Justice and the Benghazi attack. White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer will talk to NBC's "Meet the Press," CNN's "State of the...Tags: Thomas E Price, Fox News Channel (tv network), Dennis J. Kucinich, John Cornyn, Charles B. Rangel
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Child's play over the budget
WASHINGTON -- The budget feud on Capitol Hill is looking like those Vietnam War peace talks when negotiators bickered over the shape of the table. House Republicans, after howling for years about Senate Democrats' failure to pass a budget, are...
Tags: Harry Reid, White House, Ted Cruz, U.S. Senate, Government Health Care
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Fuming over the assault weapons ban's failure
To say that that the preponderance of letters we receive on assault weapons call for their ban wouldn't be an exaggeration. So when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Tuesday that the ban proposed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein wouldn't be brought to...
Tags: Harry Reid, Assault, Elections, Human Interest, The Happiest News!
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GOP rejects gay marriage, asks Supreme Court to uphold Prop. 8
Republican leaders unanimously approved a resolution Friday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Proposition 8, the measure under court review that forbids same-sex marriage in California. The Republican National Committee “affirms its...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Social Issues, Tea Party Movement, Reince Priebus, Mark Kirk
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Army says no to more tanks, but Congress insists
WASHINGTON (AP) — Built to dominate the enemy in combat, the Army's hulking Abrams tank is proving equally hard to beat in a budget battle. Lawmakers from both parties have devoted nearly half a billion dollars in taxpayer money over the past...
Tags: George W. Bush, Chuck Hagel, Leon Panetta, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Parties and Movements
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'Evolving' pols real hypocrites on marriage
Fingers to the wind, politicians now are falling all over themselves to declare they are no longer evolving but have evolved and support same-sex marriage, including the worst of the lot: Republicans who once used their opposition to it to rouse their...Tags: George W. Bush, Gun Control, Bill Nelson, Social Issues, Mark Kirk
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Sen. Mark Kirk announces support for same-sex marriage
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) on Tuesday announced that he supports gay marriage, joining a growing list of U.S. senators who offer such support. "When I climbed the Capitol steps in January, I promised myself that I would return to the...
Tags: Social Issues, White House, Crime, Law and Justice, Radio, NPR
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