A group of U.S. House members will propose steps to legal status for undocumented immigrants, who shouldn’t be living here permanently without a chance to become “real Americans,” said Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart. Bringing many of the approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants “out of the...
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Migrant farm workers from Mexico a day of harvesting organic vegetables in Wellington, Colorado.
House Ready to Make Undocumented ‘Real Americans:’ Diaz-Balart
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Villaraigosa Mum as L.A. Term Closes
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a 60-year-old Democrat and one of the most prominent Latino politicians, gets asked a lot about his future these days. After eight years of leading the second-largest city, Villaraigosa must leave office at the end...
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The Capitol is reflected in Washington.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 40
That’s the share of Americans who say that President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress will reach an agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center and the Washington Post. Forty-nine percent...
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President Barack Obama in this file photo.
Obama: `We Have the Potential of Getting a Deal Done’
President Barack Obama, voicing optimism about “getting a deal done” with Congress to avert the so-called fiscal cliff looming at year’s end, acknowledged in an interview today that he won’t get “100 percent” of what he wants. It was the...
Read more »Electoral Votes: $5.6 Mln For Nevada’s, Most Expensive of All
How much does an electoral vote cost? In the heavily contested swing states, the cost of courting those votes adds up to the price of a small Cezanne. The presidential candidates and their super-PACs are nearing the half-billion dollar mark...
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Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive officer of Blackstone Group LP.
Private Equity’s Election Bounce?
Could all this madness actually be good for business? After enduring almost a year of attacks on private equity, one of its chief practitioners seems to think the industry could come out ahead when the November dust settles. Steve Schwarzman,...
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Rep. Paul Ryan during a rally at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, on September 22, 2012.
Ryan: Romney Offering `Clear Choice’
Rep. Paul Ryan, who served on the Simpson-Bowles commission and voted against the chairmen’s plan for addressing the deficit, says he’d oppose it again today. The reason, he says, is it didn’t include reforms in health-care entitlement spending. “I want...
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Alec Poitevint speaks with former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, right, during the Republican National Convention.
Barbour: Romney’s `Mistake’ — Should Acknowledge, Move On
While Mitt Romney still can defeat Barack Obama, he must shift the focus of the last six weeks of the race to the president’s “policies, the failures of those policies, and what Romney would do to get the country back...
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Elizabeth Warren at a campaign event in Scituate, Massachusetts.
Brown vs. Warren: $48M and Counting
“The nation’s hottest Senate race is in Massachusetts.” So notes Bloomberg Television’s Peter Cook, who has interviewed both Republican Sen. Scott Brown and challenger Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor and consumer advocate, in “a heavyweight fight that could determine...
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Rep. Paul Ryan at a campaign event at Walsh University on August 16, 2012 in North Canton, Ohio.
Romney’s Cheney: Norquist’s View
Paul Ryan could be to economics and tax policy what Dick Cheney was to national security — should Republican Mitt Romney win election as president. That’s how Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, sees it. “I think that...
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