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White House fights and loses battle to withhold Benghazi records
ReutersBy Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's White House fought and lost a battle to avoid making public what it claimed were confidential records of internal deliberations over the attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in...Tags: John O. Brennan, Executive Branch, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, Prosecution
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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: Mike Lee, Labor Legislation, John Cornyn, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice
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Senators hit snag on tech provisions in U.S. immigration bill
ReutersBy Caren Bohan and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - Amid fierce lobbying from the tech industry and organized labor, senators on Thursday hit a snag over a visa program for high-skilled foreign workers in the U.S. immigration bill and...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, Justice System
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McCain again calls for special congressional panel on Benghazi
WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pressed Sunday for a special congressional committee to investigate the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, last year, insisting that questions about former Secretary of State...
Tags: Hillary Clinton, John Boehner, Central Intelligence Agency, John McCain, Jay Carney
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Congress speaks with a loud, muddled voice on Syria
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein made headlines recently by demanding a forceful U.S. response to Syria's use of chemical weapons against its population. Less noticed was that the California Democrat wasn't urging deeper military involvement...
Tags: U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Bob Corker, Bob Menendez
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REFILE-EXCLUSIVE-Elon Musk quits Zuckerberg's immigration advocacy group
Reuters(Fixes misplaced apostrophe in senators' in 5th para) * Advertising tactics turn some groups against Facebook * Support for positions of three lawmakers, including oil drilling * Musk and David Sacks removed from donor list on website By Sarah McBride...Tags: Mark Begich, David O. Sacks, Crime, Law and Justice, Reid Hoffman, Justice System
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Welcome to the 'Stop Hillary Clinton' hearing
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who's the most powerful woman of them all?" No doubt about it. Not Queen Elizabeth, Angela Merkel or Oprah Winfrey. The most powerful woman on the planet is former first lady, former senator from New York, former...
Tags: Italy, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, U.S. Department of State, Oprah Winfrey
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Lindsey Graham blames immigration woes on south-of-the-border 'hell holes'
The GOP’s effort to woo Latinos may have suffered a minor setback Thursday, thanks to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Republicans have been trying to improve their standing with the fastest-growing voting bloc ever since last year's election, when...Tags: Social Issues, Mexico, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Jeff Sessions, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Immigration bill survives first day of debate in Senate committee
WASHINGTON — After eight hours of debate, the bipartisan Senate immigration bill emerged mostly intact Thursday, despite Republican-led efforts to make substantial alterations in the first of what is certain to be many long committee meetings to...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Republican Party, Jeff Flake, Justice System, Migration
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Many amendments, few changes to immigration overhaul
WASHINGTON -- Senators on Thursday began the arduous task of going through some 300 proposed amendments to the delicately constructed bipartisan immigration bill. By lunch, they had disposed of 17. With a packed audience of many pro-immigration...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Republican Party, Justice System, Jeff Flake
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Gay rights amendment offered to US immigration bill in Congress
Reuters* Rubio warns gay rights proposal would 'kill' bill * Committee Republicans offer mountain of amendments (Adds details and context paragraph 11 onward) By Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee...Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Civil Rights, Labor Legislation, Justice and Rights, John Cornyn
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Obama's red line on Syria gets squiggly
The hawks are squawking. Congressional conservatives and the right-wing media are blasting President Barack Obama for going soft on the Syrians. The president insists there is a "game-changing" red line the Syrian government will have crossed if it is...
Tags: John McCain, United Nations, Chuck Hagel, Religion and Belief, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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