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Immigrants take the oath of U.S. citizenship at a naturalization ceremony held at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), office on May 17, 2013 in New York City.
Partisan Obstacles Threaten Immigration Revisions
With Kathleen Hunter As the Senate Judiciary Committee resumes its markup today of immigration legislation, Congress faces obstacles of its own making in its efforts to overhaul the system. Florida Republican Marco Rubio, a member of the bipartisan Senate team...
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Workers erect an exterior wall panel in an apartment building under construction in Peoria, Illinois, on March 28, 2013.
Low-Skilled Visas: Cap Key to Deal
Two years ago, the U.S. certified about 75,000 low-skilled laborers for guest-worker visas. Under the first year of a new plan that business and labor leaders have tentatively approved as part of a Senate proposal to revise the nation’s immigration...
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U.S. Army soldiers attached to 2nd platoon, C troop, 1st Squadron (Airborne), 91st U.S Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team operating under NATO sponsored International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) looks through his rifle as a Medevac helicopter takes off during a patrol near Baraki Barak base in Logar Province on Oct. 13, 2012. T
Defense Cuts: Unavoidable, Despite GDP Contraction Pinned on Defense?
Written with Richard Rubin Just as the U.S. gross domestic product is taking a hit from lower defense budgets, federal spending cuts viewed as unthinkable a few months ago — $1.2 trillion falling heavily on the Pentagon — are seen...
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Rep. Kay Granger, a Republican from Texas.
Republican Defectors Ready to Talk — Taxes, Spending Cuts: `All Options’
A few dozen Republicans have joined a bipartisan call to break the impasse between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner over taxes for the highest- earning Americans. The Republicans signed a letter calling for exploration of “all options”...
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One in three. That’s how Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s fiscal commission and a former White House chief of staff for Bill Clinton, rates the chances of approval of an agreement this year to avert the so-called fiscal...
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Jim Messina, center, campaign manager for the re-election of President Barack Obama, talks with reporters during a tour of the re-election headquarters in Chicago.
Messina: Romney’s Chrysler Ad One of Campaign’s Biggest Missteps
President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina, said one of the campaign’s biggest missteps by Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign was a controversial ad suggesting that Chrysler Group LLC is moving Jeep productions to China. “They were spending the last...
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Lanhee Chen, policy director for Mitt Romney.
Romney Open to Deficit-Cut Capping Benefits From Tax Exemptions
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would consider an approach to cutting the U.S. deficit that would wring savings from the tax code by capping the total benefit taxpayers can receive from tax expenditures, according to Lanhee Chen, Romney’s policy director....
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Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love introduces herself at a training session for women aspiring to get into politics in Sandy, Utah.
Republicans Boost Women on Parade
Among the prime-time speakers at the National Republican Convention in Tampa this week: Mia Love, the 37-year-old female mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah. Love, who is Mormon and of Haitian heritage, was among the U.S. House recruits identified by leaders...
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House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, speaks to the media during the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa.
Boehner Skeptical of Need for 4-Day Presidential Convention
House Speaker John Boehner suggested the four-day convention the two parties have traditionally held to showcase their presidential nominee may be outdated, given the proliferation of the national media. “These are very expensive propositions to put on,” Boehner told reporters...
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Tea Party member Carl Frederick at a rally for vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan at Miami University of Ohio on Aug. 15, 2012.
Tea Party Revels in Ryan on Ticket
Tea Party activists are taking a special pride in Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan’s ascendance to the Republican presidential ticket. The decision by Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, to name 42-year-old Ryan as his vice presidential running mate “is an...
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