Conservative groups renewed calls this week for the administration to declare it will not push “backdoor amnesty” for the country’s illegal immigrant population.
The controversy is centered around a draft memo written by Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees that lays out potential policy changes that would help some More…
Sen. Chuck Schumer said this morning he hopes the $600 million border security bill will convince Republicans to come to the table to work on comprehensive immigration reform. Observers are skeptical of this strategy, and Republicans don’t seem convinced either — most still argue more needs More…
Some Republicans, including Sens. Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, John McCain, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and others, have been calling for hearings to discuss the possibility of altering the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — the one that grants citizenship to children born to More…
The Senate “isn’t ‘Saturday Night Live,’” says Mitch McConnell.
Chuck Grassley worries about scientists looking at porn.
An Elvis Presley impersonator — named Elvis Presley — is running for Arkansas governor.
McConnell also hopes the president will become a “born-again moderate.”
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Conservatives are up in arms about a draft memo laying out ways the Obama administration could amend immigration policies without pushing comprehensive immigration reform through Congress. The memo, reportedly written by four U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services staffers, discusses potential policy changes that would help non-dangerous immigrants More…
Caucus night in Iowa is over 18 months away and no presidential candidates have officially declared, but it’s still something of a surprise to Iowa politicians how little attention from potential 2012 candidates the state has been getting.
National Republicans are slowly starting to trickle into the state for campaign More…
A little history: Senate Democrats thought they were done with financial regulatory reform, ready to vote and pass the bill to President Obama. Then Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) decided he did not like how Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) required big banks and hedge funds to pay the $19 billion More…
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan declined today to comment on whether states had the right to determine their own marriage laws, citing the likelihood a case related to that issue would go before the Court in the near future. Her excuse was a veiled reference to the challenge to California’s More…
A prominent polling firm’s work was placed under suspicion today — and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) may be the biggest beneficiary.
Daily Kos had contracted Research 2000 to conduct weekly polls for its website, but an outside review published by the site shows highly improbable results. Kos founder Markos More…
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan says that two recent Second Amendment cases are now “settled law” and that she will follow them if she is confirmed as a justice.
Her views on the two cases — District of Columbia v. Heller and the more recent McDonald v. City of Chicago More…
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