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Senate opens debate on immigration overhaul
WASHINGTON — With an overwhelming vote, the Senate on Tuesday launched debate on an ambitious overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, as Republicans, most of whom have not yet embraced the effort, declined to stand in the way of bringing it to...Tags: Justice and Rights, John Cornyn, Mexico, John Boehner, Lindsey O. Graham
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Obama exhorts Congress to act on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama prodded Congress Tuesday to send him a bill by fall remaking the nation's immigration laws, even as the Senate prepared to cast its first floor votes on the landmark measure opening a door to citizenship...
Tags: Justice and Rights, White House, John Cornyn, John Boehner, Univision (tv network)
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New Republican senator could be key vote on guns
WASHINGTON – Even before New Jersey’s new U.S. senator took the oath of office, Democrats seemed to be lobbying the Republican for his vote on a key legislative priority: expanded background checks on gun buyers. Jeffrey Chiesa, appointed...Tags: Executive Branch, Frank Pallone, Jr., Rush Holt, Joe Manchin III, Politics
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John David Dyche: McConnell's half-century of hardball politics
jddyche@yahoo.comThe big news at the University of Louisville in the spring of 1963 was the school’s strong showing in the College Bowl academic quiz show. Of lesser note, but perhaps more lasting significance, Mitch McConnell was elected president of U of L’s...Tags: Justice and Rights, Teaching and Learning, Politics, Washington, DC, Scranton
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Obama, Congress reenact battle over student loan rates
WASHINGTON -- President Obama complained about the looming interest rate hike on student loans in a Rose Garden event Friday morning and urged Americans to call, write and tweet their Republican members of Congress to do something about it. But on...Tags: White House, Barack Obama, Elections, Politics, Loans
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Ehrlich distorts the facts about Obamacare
As is often his wont, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s recent column on Obamacare provided a very one-sided narrative using gross generalizations and failing to provide context for his arguments ("Lost jobs, higher costs: Obamacare hits home," May 26). Mr....Tags: Barack Obama, American Enterprise Institute, John Boehner, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting
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Boxing Obama in
Greater than the risk of being accused of criminality in the three scandals now gripping the Obama administration is the peril that the president's substantive agenda is being hopelessly knocked off track. The liberal Illinois senator who entered the...Tags: White House, Justice System, Barack Obama, Executive Branch, Politics
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Progress on immigration
Just when Washington looked like it was completely preoccupied with the scandals, real and imaginary, swirling around the White House, a group of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate managed the unexpected (and, these days, extraordinary): They...Tags: White House, Ted Cruz, Justice System, John Boehner, Patrick Leahy
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Immigration bill clears hurdle in Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation's immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, setting the stage for a debate next month that could lead to the biggest victory for...Tags: Ted Cruz, Justice and Rights, White House, Lindsey O. Graham, Patrick Leahy
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Immigration reform bill heads to full Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, but not before tilting the bill to the political right with amendments designed to...Tags: Justice and Rights, Ted Cruz, White House, Patrick Leahy, Chuck Schumer
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Reid to delay Senate votes on most Obama nominees until July
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he will delay votes on several of President Obama’s nominees for key posts until July, a decision raising the prospect that he’ll seek further changes to Senate rules...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Washington, DC, Gina McCarthy, Dick Durbin
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Oklahoma's tornado and political cheap shots
It's as predictable as it is disheartening: A red state gets hit hard by a tornado outbreak -- in this case killing at least 24 people, many of them children attending school -- and the first batch of letters from readers (most of them from Southern...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Barack Obama, Hurricane Sandy (2012), American Red Cross, Politics
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