One hundred days into his second term as president, today, April 30, President Barack Obama has plenty to talk about at a White House news conference. Including what hasn’t happened at home — where his fervent pleas for new gun...
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President Barack Obama during a meeting with Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the Amir of Qatar, unseen, in the Oval Office of the White House on April 23, 2013.
Obama: 100 Days In, Red Line Deadline?
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A U.S. Border Patrol ranch liaison, right, rides with a cattle rancher at the U.S.-Mexico border on March 8, 2013 in Nogales, Arizona.
Border Security: 90 Percent ‘Doable’
Manuel Padilla Jr. is the Border Patrol’s chief agent of the Tucson sector, the highest-risk stretch of an almost 2,000-mile U.S. border with Mexico — a 262-mile line that 120,000 people were caught attempting to cross last year. Yet his...
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Delegates watch a video about former President George W. Bush at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa, Florida.
Bush Revisited: Regaining Lost Ground
“After the most unpopular second term of the post-World War II era, ” pollster Gary Langer reports, former President George W. Bush “has gained in public esteem as time since his presidency has passed – not that the public’s ready...
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Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., speaks at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center at National Harbor, Md., on March 15, 2013.
Ryan: No Slow-Down on Immigration
Hurry up or slow down with that immigration overhaul? What would Mitt Romney do? Or perhaps more pointedly going forward, Paul Ryan? Slow down, some of the Republican Party’s leaders were saying last week, in the midst of the hunt,...
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Three sections of pipe sit on the ground during construction of the Gulf Coast Project pipeline in Atoka, Oklahoma, as part of the Keystone XL Pipeline Project and will run from Cushing, Oklahoma to Nederland, Texas.
Washington Daybook: Keystone Deadline
Today is the deadline for public comments at the State Department on the proposed Keystone pipeline to carry tar-sands oil fro Canada to U.S. refineries. Democratic donors are trying to persuade President Barack Obama that turning down TransCanada Corp.’s petition...
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U.S. Border Patrol agents monitor the area near the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, California, on March 21, 2012.
Durbin Says Immigration Law Overhaul Is National Security Issue
Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin of Illinois, the chamber’s No. 2 Democrat, offers this reason for supporting an overhaul of immigration laws: It will help national security. Durbin, in an interview on “Political Capital With Al Hunt,” airing this weekend...
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Immigrants stand during the playing of the National Anthem at a U.S. naturalization ceremony in New York, on April 17, 2013 at 26 Federal Plaza.
U.S. Chamber Spearheads Effort to Pass Immigration Bill
Supporters of the new immigration bill are undertaking efforts to push the measure through Congress and onto the president’s desk. Tom Donohue, president the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest business lobby, said the proposal meets the goals of ...
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Rand Paul Eyes 2016 as Reaching Out on Immigration, Race
It’s never too early for prospective presidential contenders to court their party’s core voters, and Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky batted his eyelashes a bit today at a breakfast with reporters in Washington. He is “considering it,” the Tea...
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Republican Immigration ‘Hall Pass’ — 2016 and 2014 Explain it All
Early this morning, a bipartisan group of eight senators who have been working behind closed doors for months on the sort of comprehensive immigration overhaul that President Barack Obama has been seeking filed their bill in the Senate. Later this...
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Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York, left, and John McCain or Arizona, before their meeting on immigration with President Barack Obama, April 16, 2013. AP Photo.
Senators: Obama Nods on Immigration ‘Compromise’
Updated at 5:30 pm EDT The White House isn’t completely satisfied with the immigration rewrite that a bipartisan group of senators has produced, two senators say, yet President Barack Obama has endorsed their work. The White House confirmed as much...
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