Change.org links to a good summary of the 874-page comprehensive immigration reform bill Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced Wednesday. The bill includes paths to legalization for non-criminal illegal immigrants in the country, provided they pay a fine and application fees. But first it focuses More…
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) criticized President Obama and the Democrats this afternoon for failing to pass immigration reform, which Obama said he would take up in his first year. He’s right about that – but it’s an odd statement, considering Cornyn’s own party was the one to block it.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is circulating around Capitol Hill a proposal that would allow nuclear and coal with carbon capture and storage technology to count toward the country’s clean energy mandate.
Graham’s “clean energy standard” is a potential threat to the support that Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Sam Brownback More…
Some Republican senators, along with centrist Democrats, aren’t happy with Harry Reid’s decision to slip the DREAM Act into a defense authorization bill up for a vote next week — and they are arguing it could kill the bill, although none have explicitly said they plan to vote More…
Now that primary season is over, Politico is reporting that environmentalists are hopeful Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) might return to the fold. After backing climate bills that proposed a cap-and-trade mechanism for reducing carbon emissions for years, he did an about-face on the issue after his 2008 presidential loss More…
This morning, I attended a panel called “Can Conservatism Survive Mass Immigration?” The question posed to the panelists, most of whom were conservatives, is whether Republicans could still perform well with voters — particularly Latinos — with their current rhetoric and policy on immigration. The short answer, according to panelists, More…
As a party, Republicans want to have it both ways on immigration — to tout anti-immigration policies without alienating Latino voters. On Monday, for instance, RNC Chairman Michael Steele attempted during an interview with Univision to distance the GOP from Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law. The law was More…
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano visited the White House’s press briefing today to discuss the $600 million border security bill signed into law this morning. She argued the bill would bolster border security and echoed statements by President Barack Obama and other Democrats who have said the next More…
Today, reconvened during the August recess for a special session, the Senate passed a fully-funded $600 million bill for border security, providing funds for 1,500 new enforcement agents and additional unmanned drones along the border.
[Congress1] The bill has a convoluted history. It originally passed the Senate last Thursday, More…
A Pew Hispanic Center study released today provides hard numbers to the debate about the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants. Of the 4.3 million babies born in the U.S. in 2008, 340,000 — or about 8 percent — were born to illegal More…
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