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McConnell: Guantanamo is the place to try terrorists
Speaking to a crowd of lawyers in Washington last week, Attorney General Eric Holder made an audacious claim about the war on terrorism. Overlooking the all-volunteer military force that has heroically battled terrorists and insurgents for nearly a...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, New York, The Washington Post, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Criminals
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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: Budgets and Budgeting, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), John McCain, Harry Reid, Migration
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CBO: Senate Immigration bill would help economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sweeping immigration legislation moving toward a vote in the Senate would boost the economy and reduce federal deficits, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, at the same time it would bestow legal status on an estimated...
Tags: Trey Gowdy, Washington, DC, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Migration, National Government
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Editorial: Immigration reform is more than border security
Federal spending on border security is at a historic high. Illegal crossings are at a 40-year low. Deportations reached record numbers in President Barack Obama's first term. Let's get on with the business of fixing the rest of our dysfunctional...Tags: Science and Technology, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Business, Career and Workplace, Migration
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Sen. Sessions on immigration bill's broken promises
The so-called Gang of Eight immigration plan now being considered by the Senate fails to live up to every major promise made by its sponsors. Far from improving the immigration system, their 1,000-page proposal would exacerbate many of its flaws. It would...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Extradition, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Misdemeanors, Career and Workplace
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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: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), John McCain, Harry Reid, Haley Barbour, Career and Workplace
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Racial profiling provision of immigration bill scrutinized
A coalition of civil liberties and immigrant-rights advocates led by Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland wants to strengthen a provision in the Senate's sweeping immigration bill that would prohibit law enforcement agencies from racial profiling. The 867-page,...
Tags: Islam, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Border Patrol, Racism, Migration
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Sen. Sessions' do-nothing solution on immigration [Blowback]
As an attorney and a supporter of immigration reform, I read the Op-Ed article Monday by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) hoping to learn more about principled conservative opposition to the so-called Gang of Eight's plan in the Senate. Instead, I was...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Judges, Extradition, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), The Washington Post
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As Senate takes up immigration reform, land mines lurk
WASHINGTON — Sen. Charles E. Schumer, awakened from a nap in his office, bounded to the Senate floor, staff in tow. It was approaching 2 a.m. The New Yorker joined fellow Democratic Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, who was presiding wearily...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), John McCain, Career and Workplace, Migration, U.S. Congress
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Civil rights case is obstacle for Obama's Labor Department pick
WASHINGTON — It began with an odd civil rights claim, one that now threatens to derail the confirmation of President Obama's civil rights chief to lead the Labor Department. White landlords had sued the city of St. Paul, Minn., for aggressively...Tags: Judges, Washington, DC, Mortgages, Career and Workplace, Social Issues
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Stewing in his own juices
WASHINGTON — Eric Holder is in a mess of his own making. Two weeks ago, the attorney general testified to the House Judiciary Committee in categorical terms: "With regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that...Tags: Prosecution, The Washington Post, Tea Party Movement, Freedom of the Press, U.S. Congress
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Way past time to change tax code
During the early years of the Republic, Chief Justice John Marshall noted that, "The power to tax is the power to destroy." He might have added that it's also the power to manipulate behavior, punish political enemies and reward political friends. Indeed,...Tags: Carl Levin, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party Movement, Richard Nixon, Steve Jobs
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