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Sweeping immigration bill survives early Senate test
Associated PressBipartisan authors of a sweeping immigration bill agreed to Republican-authored amendments to boost border security, as they tried Thursday to show they’re open to changes to attract more GOP support for their landmark legislation. The bill’s...Tags: John Cornyn, Migration, Republican Party, Chuck Grassley, Dick Durbin
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Ricin letter sent to Obama; suspicious packages, envelopes reported on Capitol Hill
Associated PressLetters sent to President Barack Obama and a Mississippi senator tested positive for poisonous ricin in preliminary checks Wednesday, and authorities chased reports of other suspicious mail at a U.S. Capitol already on edge. An FBI intelligence...Tags: U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Senate, Anthrax, Chuck Hagel, Richard Shelby
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White House, senators starting push on immigration
The White House and a bipartisan group of senators will launch an effort next week to jump-start negotiations to overhaul the immigration system, an issue that has languished in Washington for years. President Obama will begin his second-term immigration...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Marco Rubio, George W. Bush, John McCain
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Obama to GOP: Game on
Associated PressPresident Barack Obama delivered an election-year broadside to Republicans: Game on. The GOP, from Congress to the campaign trail, signaled it’s ready for the fight. In his third State of the Union address, Obama issued a populist call for...Tags: ABC (tv network), National Government, Washington, DC, Newt Gingrich, Republican Party
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Correction: Immigration story
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story May 14 about a Senate immigration bill, The Associated Press erroneously reported that two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers entered the U.S. on student visas. In fact only one of them did. A corrected version of the...Tags: U.S. Senate, Jeff Sessions, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, DC, Republican Party
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High-tech companies push for more in Senate immigration bill; labor pushes back
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — High-tech companies looking to bring more skilled workers to the U.S. pushed Monday for more concessions in an immigration bill pending in the Senate. Labor unions said the Silicon Valley had already gotten enough in the...Tags: Media Industry, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, DC, Science and Technology, Politics
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Gun control backers turn up heat on selected senators
WASHINGTON — First came the letter-writing campaigns, then the protests at town hall meetings and now the television ads. The last several weeks in New Hampshire have had the feel of a heated electoral season — but the target of this siege,...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Organizing for Action, Lobbying, National Rifle Association of America
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The NRA doesn't deserve my sympathy, or yours
Usually when a senator suffers a big public defeat, he slinks off to lick his wounds. He rarely retwists the arms that didn't bend his way. Colleagues don't like to be seen switching. Were they horribly mistaken the first time? Don't know what they...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, John McCain
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Immigration reform divides Republicans
WASHINGTON — The immigration reform bill crafted by a bipartisan group of senators has deeply split the Republican minority even as lawmakers prepare to take the first votes on the proposal Thursday. Alabama's Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, a...Tags: Jeff Sessions, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Religious Events, Human Interest, Republican Party
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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: Jeff Sessions, Migration, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Republican Party, Chuck Grassley
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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: Jeff Sessions, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Migration, Republican Party, Chuck Grassley
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