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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: Immigration, Dianne Feinstein, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Matthew Rozsa: Why won't 'birthers' question citizenship of Sen. Ted Cruz?
From a strictly political standpoint, the past month has been pretty good for Sen. Ted Cruz. First the tea party darling further endeared himself to grass-roots rightists by claiming he had privately told Republican senators who supported the gun-buyer...Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, Lehigh University, Politics, Ted Cruz
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Tom Perez and the 'nuclear option'
Republicans accuse Thomas E. Perez, President Barack Obama's nominee for labor secretary, of twisting the legal process in three cases in St. Paul, Minn., to suit his political purposes. But it is they who are twisting the Senate's role to "advise and...
Tags: Rental Service, Barack Obama, U.S. Cabinet, Personal Income, Career and Workplace
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Farm Bill cultivated in Congress
While farmers are struggling to get seeds in the ground and ranchers are moving livestock to pasture, Congress is stepping closer to piecing together the 2013 Farm Bill. Issues, some big and some small, still divide lawmakers and the process will take...Tags: Agriculture, Science and Technology, Politics, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate
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Letters: Fussing about the filibuster
Re "Nuking the filibuster," Editorial, May 15 It should be clear by now that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will not do the right thing and fix the filibuster. The Senate will continue to be in gridlock. The Democratic senators wringing...Tags: Politics
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Senate panel focuses on enforcement in immigration bill
WASHINGTON — Senators kept the bipartisan immigration bill largely unchanged Thursday after dispatching dozens of proposed amendments even as they punted many of the thorniest issues to next week. The day's session at the Senate Judiciary...
Tags: Immigration, Orrin Hatch, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Mike Lee
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U.S. Senate to hold vote on consumer watchdog director next week
ReutersBy Emily Stephenson May 15 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democratic leaders plan to hold a vote next week on President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a Senate Democratic aide said on Wednesday, but they are not expected...Tags: Barack Obama, Career and Workplace, White House, U.S. Senate, Work Relations
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Senate to hold vote on consumer watchdog director next week
Reuters(Reuters) - Senate Democratic leaders plan to hold a vote next week on President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a Senate Democratic aide said on Wednesday, but they are not expected to muster enough votes to...Tags: Barack Obama, Career and Workplace, White House, Work Relations, U.S. Senate
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Taxing Internet sales
In 1998, when President Bill Clinton signed the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibited state and local taxation of Internet access and Internet-only services, the purpose was to promote the commercial potential of the Internet, especially...Tags: Small Businesses, Newspaper and Magazine, Business, Local Government, The Washington Post
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Lawmakers accuse Obama administration of abusing free speech rights
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers accused the Obama administration on Wednesday of trampling on free speech rights and evading questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of Associated Press telephone records. U.S. Attorney General Eric...Tags: Zoe Lofgren, Barack Obama, Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senate, Republican Party
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Nuking the filibuster
In requiring the U.S. Senate to confirm presidential appointments, the Constitution aims to ensure a second level of scrutiny of the qualifications of government officials. But Senate Republicans have hijacked the confirmation process, not only to...
Tags: Barack Obama, Career and Workplace, Work Relations, U.S. Senate, Republican Party
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Reid says IRS chief Miller doing a good job
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Tuesday he believed IRS chief Steven Miller was doing a good job. While some Republicans have called for the resignation of Miller, Reid, a Nevada Democrat, told journalists,...Tags: Taxation, Politics, U.S. Senate, Internal Revenue Service
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