Jim DeMint this week will put a price tag on the Senate’s immigration bill. Bloomberg’s Heidi Przybyla reported he would last week. .@jimdemint: Proposed #immigration reform bill would cost U.S. trillions of dollars in the long term. #ThisWeek — This...
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Rubio: The Selling of Immigration
In the selling of the immigration plan that Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and six other members of both parties plan to unveil Tuesday, the debate starts with one word: Amnesty. That’s...
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Speaker of the House John Boehner speaks during a press briefing March 14, 2013 at the Capitol in Washington, DC.
Boehner: Tax Talk ‘Over’
Updated at 11:30 am EDT House Speaker John Boehner has given at the office. And he’s not giving any more on taxes, he reasserted today. The Ohio Republican, in an interview with ABC News’ Martha Raddatz airing on “This Week”...
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Jon Bon Jovi performs at an early vote event for Obama for America at the House of Blues inside the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino on the last day Nevadans are able to register to vote October 6, 2012 in Las Vegas Nevada.
Jon Bon Jovi Plays `Flawlessly’ — Obama: `Can’t Always Say the Same’
In public and private settings, President Barack Obama had some fun at his own expense. With his widely panned first-debate performance. “I’m a big believer in closing the deal,” Obama said last night at a campaign fundraiser with about 150...
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This is the post-convention word from the Obama and Romney camps on one another: Avoiding the details versus repeating the same old words. Expect to hear more of this in the next 57 days. In war-room style, President Barack Obama’s...
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