Health Care and Immigration: Uncomfortable Bedfellows
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus was emphatic that illegal immigrants should be included when the landmark health care bill was being negotiated in 2009.
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The Congressional Hispanic Caucus was emphatic that illegal immigrants should be included when the landmark health care bill was being negotiated in 2009.
“Seeing someone in the position of James Clapper — the Director of National Intelligence — baldly lying to the public without repercussion is the evidence of a subverted democracy.”
Royalty payments should be their biggest expense — music is to radio what films are to a movie theater. Without music, radio is just static, voice-overs and endless commercial advertisements.
Dylan Matthews of The Washington Post has a story out that touches on a classic Capitol Hill question: Should unpaid internships be illegal? According to Judge William Pauley of the U.S.
The Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday approved its version of the fiscal 2014 defense policy bill without specific language about the Afghan drawdown timetable.
“I think what we need to do is detail at a minimum what the border plan should be in detail.” It remains to be seen how Democrats will react to the Rubio proposal once it’s drafted.
Perhaps more worrisome, a random sampling of applicants not subjected to additional scrutiny showed the IRS approved, without question, applications that suggested an organization would undertake significant
Without longtime incumbents on the ballot, these districts should be easier to takeover. But six months into the 2014 cycle, that just isn’t the case on the House side.
Therefore, we should not let in more legal immigrants, some of whom may abuse and eventually bankrupt the welfare system.
But Reid’s maneuver to kill it without so much as a fare thee well also threatens to upend the rickety bipartisan agreement to stay on course for a textbook friendly debate.
We should immediately stop sending F-16s and tanks to Egypt.” As critics like Sen.
So without further ado, a primer on where the issue stands.
As Reservation 13 is redeveloped and as the future of the RFK Stadium complex is debated, opportunities for new large parks serving Capitol Hill should be recognized,” the plan states.
The White House has claimed executive privilege, refusing to provide information to congressional oversight committees — and without independent prosecutorial authority, Congress can do little other than
“There is plenty of room to have this debate without compromising our surveillance sources or methods or tipping our hand to our enemies.
After signaling earlier in the day that his leadership style could lend itself to passage of immigration overhaul without the votes of a majority of his own party, Speaker John A.
who was among a group of eight senators introducing a bill Tuesday to require the declassification of important Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions related to the NSA, said that the public should
NW) via a meeting outlining his position that District residents should be exempt from federal income taxes.
U.S. multinational companies, on the other hand, currently have about $2 trillion in foreign earnings that they cannot invest in the U.S. without incurring a substantial U.S. tax penalty.
But a few not-so-powerful members think he should go free — and more are calling for changes in the law.