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CBO: Immigration bill reduces deficit
In a boost for supporters of a major immigration reform bill now on the Senate floor, the Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday reported that the plan would reduce the nation's budget deficit over the next two decades, as backers said it showed the "economic imperative" to approve immigration law changes. ...
Details of Senate immigration reform bill
With strong support in both parties, the U.S. Senate voted 84-15 on Tuesday to officially begin debate on sweeping immigration reform legislation, as a majority of Republicans joined with Democrats to move past the first procedural hurdles to the bill. "We should do what we think is right," said Sen. ...
Immigration reform takes next step in Senate
After months of work by backers in both parties, the Senate is ready to take the first procedural votes Tuesday afternoon on sweeping immigration reform legislation, starting an intense debate on the future of millions of who illegally live in the United States. "The time is now for the Senate ...
Obama speech on terrorism
President Obama on Thursday spoke at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., outlining his vision for the future of the U.S. fight against terrorism. Here is the text of the speech, as provided by the White House: (As Prepared for Delivery --) It’s an honor to return to the ...
People 2 People May 12, 2013
Cystic Fibrosis There are dozens of diseases in this country that do a lot of damage, yet impact only a handful of people, they're called orphan diseases. that's because they get little or no funds from the federal government, and that's why Georgia families are coming together and organizing their ...
The fine print of immigration reform legislation
As work begins in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on immigration reform legislation, Senators have laid out 300 amenmdents to what is now an 867 page bill, covering everything from immigration issues involving same-sex spouses to plans that prevent anyone in the U.S. illegally from becoming a U.S. citizen. Supporters ...
Congress returns to active legislative agenda
With the next vacation break just three weeks away for Memorial Day, the Congress returns to work this week with a series of issues on the agenda that could certainly spur some animated partisan battles up and down Pennsylvania Avenue. The first order of business in the Senate on Monday ...
Obama Administration rolls out new health insurance forms
The Obama Administration unveiled new draft forms Tuesday for people to apply for insurance coverage under the Obama health law, releasing signup applications which are much shorter and less complex than an earlier version that drew criticism from backers and critics alike of the health reform law. "Consumers will have ...
Questions after the Boston Marathon bombings
The political aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings is just beginning, as both parties wait to see how it may impact a number of different issues, ranging from the conduct of anti-terrorism work by the U.S. Government to immigration, gun laws and more. In the wake of terrorist attacks, it ...
Democrats yank gun bill off Senate floor
A day after the U.S. Senate rejected a series of gun control plans backed by President Obama, Democratic leaders decided to put that work on hold and move on to other legislation, unable to muster enough votes to push gun plans past Republican opposition. "This debate is not over," said ...
Gun control efforts stymied in U.S. Senate
While Congressional Democrats talked Wednesday about how they would keep trying to push gun control legislation through the U.S. Congress, work on a Senate gun bill could soon be abandoned, after the Senate rejected a series of plans from President Obama to combat gun violence. "This was a pretty shameful ...
Senators introduce immigration reform bill
After months of negotiation, a bipartisan group of eight Senators has formally introduced immigration reform legislation in the Senate, titled the "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act." It weighs in at 844 pages. The full text of the bill was posted early this morning by the office of Sen. ...
Border Patrol puts furlough plans on hold
After predicting as many as 14 furlough days and a loss of overtime for border agents, the Customs and Border Protection agency put those plans on hold on Monday, telling workers that those plans have been shelved because of a budget bill recently approved by the Congress. That budget plan ...
Immigration reform pushed back in Congress
With a small group of Senators still working on an immigration reform plan, the chairman of a key Senate committee said Wednesday he does not see his panel doing anything on the controversial subject until at least May. "Without legislative language, there is nothing for the Judiciary Committee to consider ...
Sen. Rand Paul speech on immigration reform
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) laid out this thoughts on immigration reform in a spech today, which was billed by initial news reports as one where Paul endorsed a path to citizenship. But digging into the details of the speech, that headline may not be so clear. "Conservatives, myself included, ...
Sequester hits Uncle Sam unevenly
While the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester are chopping money at the same percentage rate from different federal agencies, a review of options to deal with the cuts shows the impact of those spending reductions varies greatly between federal departments. For example, civilian defense workers - as many ...
No end to debate on sequester impact
It has now been two weeks since automatic budget cuts kicked in, and Political Washington is still waiting to see whether there will be a dramatic impact as forecast by Democrats, or if ominous predictions made by the Obama Administration - and ridiculed by many Republicans - won't exactly come ...
Obama charm offensive hits Capitol Hill
In the press galleries on Capitol Hill over the years, we have seen a lot of trips to the U.S. Capitol by Presidents of both parties, but none of my colleagues can remember a series of visits like we will have over the next three days by President Obama. "He’s ...
GOP lays out post-sequester funding bill
Embracing almost all of the automatic budget cuts that kicked in last Friday for Uncle Sam, Republicans in the House unveiled a plan on Monday afternoon that funds the military and VA for the rest of this fiscal year, and extends a temporary budget plan for the rest of the ...
White House meeting produces no sequester deal
As expected, there was no magic solution unveiled after a meeting Friday morning at the White House between Congressional leaders and the President, as both sides seem headed for a lengthy battle over how to deal with $85 billion in automatic budget cuts. "I told them these cuts will ...
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