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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: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Politics, Chuck Schumer, National Government, Immigration
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Pressure builds on U.S. officials to take heat for IRS scandal
ReutersBy Kim Dixon and Patrick Temple-West WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - Pressure was building on Monday for the Obama administration to fire more people linked to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's extra scrutiny of conservative groups, possibly including...Tags: Parties and Movements, Vern Buchanan, Politics, White House, Washington, DC
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Tech, labor brandish dueling studies in U.S. immigration fight
ReutersBy Caren Bohan WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - The technology industry and organized labor are locked in a fight that threatens to complicate the U.S. Senate's immigration bill. At the heart of the debate is whether there is a shortage of Americans...Tags: Google Inc., Dick Durbin, Politics, Justice and Rights, Immigration
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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: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Parties and Movements, Politics, Chuck Schumer, Immigration
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'I know it when I see it'
In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American's right to free speech yet guarded “community standards” against “hard core...Tags: Politics, U.S. Supreme Court, National Government, Washington, DC, Government
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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. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Justice and Rights, Politics, Employment Opportunities, Chuck Schumer
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U.S. House lawmakers in last-ditch bid to save immigration bill
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives trying to write an immigration bill met on Thursday in a last-ditch attempt to resolve their differences over a temporary worker program and healthcare benefits for illegal immigrants....Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Immigration, U.S. House of Representatives, Career and Workplace, AFL-CIO
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House immigration group reaches an agreement in principle on sweeping legislation
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of House members announced a deal Thursday on sweeping immigration legislation, a breakthrough that could boost chances for one of President Barack Obama's top second-term priorities. It came after months of...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Zoe Lofgren, Immigration, Washington, DC, Barack Obama
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U.S. Republican Hatch says IRS acting chief should leave
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - The top U.S. Republican on the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee said on Tuesday it was time for the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, to leave his post amid a growing controversy over IRS...Tags: Politics, Taxation, U.S. House of Representatives, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
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WRAPUP 1-FBI opens criminal probe of U.S. tax agency, audit cites disarray
Reuters* "Insufficient oversight" led to problems at IRS -report * Embattled acting IRS chief meets lawmakers * House tax panel is set to hold hearing on Friday By David Ingram and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric...Tags: Vern Buchanan, Politics, White House, Jay Carney, Barack Obama
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Business, labor spar over high-skill visas in U.S. immigration bill
ReutersBy Caren Bohan and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - A rift emerged between U.S. business groups and organized labor over a high-skilled worker program in the Senate immigration bill, as the tech industry and other firms on Monday pushed...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Employment Opportunities, Politics, Immigration, Mike Lee
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Farming: 'I know it when I see it'
In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American’s right to free speech yet guarded “community standards”...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Politics, National Government, Washington, DC, Government
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May 14, 2013
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May 13, 2013
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May 11, 2013
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