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By Byron York | 05/20/13 10:10 AM
There will be an event on Capitol Hill this week that will tell us a lot about the future of comprehensive immigration reform. On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the Senate Gang of Eight reform proposal. It doesn’t have any great official purpose; the Gang bill...
By Byron York | 05/16/13 07:25 PM
Security along the U.S. border with Mexico is perhaps the key factor in the debate over comprehensive immigration reform. Those who believe the border is mostly secure already are more inclined to support the plan of the bipartisan Gang of Eight in the Senate -- legalization first, followed by...
By Byron York | 05/15/13 10:55 AM
Three Republican members of the House Subcommittee Health and Human Services have written a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius demanding that she reveal details of her solicitations to health care companies for donations to fund the implementation of Obamacare....
By Byron York | 05/13/13 06:45 PM
The Internal Revenue Service scandal would be bad enough if the IRS just handled issues like collecting income taxes and granting nonprofit status. But the immensely powerful federal agency is about to become even more powerful with the arrival of national health care, and that makes the...
By Byron York | 05/13/13 03:25 PM
"It seemed like that day lasted forever," says Jason Richwine of last Wednesday, when he found himself in the middle of a media firestorm over his writings about Hispanic immigrants and intelligence. "I knew that this probably would not end well." It didn't. On Friday morning, the 31 year-old...
By Byron York | 05/10/13 12:30 PM
The conventional wisdom in much of the press is that Republicans are pursuing the Benghazi investigation because they want to damage Hillary Clinton’s chances of becoming president in 2016. Perhaps there are some Republicans who are motivated by that, but it appears most are simply trying,...
By Byron York | 05/09/13 07:10 PM
Sen. Marco Rubio, the leading Republican behind the bipartisan Gang of Eight immigration reform bill, has often said the legislation will require stronger border security measures if it is to become law. On Thursday, lawmakers got a glimpse of what that might mean. As the Senate Judiciary...
By Byron York | 05/09/13 02:40 PM
The Gang of Eight came in for a lot of criticism for its decision to require the stringent levels of border security only in “high risk” sectors of the U.S.-Mexico border — not along the entire border. The bill defines “high risk” as “a border sector in which more than 30,000...
By Byron York | 05/09/13 01:40 PM
The Senate Judiciary Committee has begun considering amendments to the Gang of Eight immigration bill. And on a key early amendment, Republicans Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake — both Gang members — joined unanimous Democrats to defeat a Republican amendment that would have required...
By Byron York | 05/08/13 10:45 AM
Tuesday at 5 p.m. was the deadline for members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to propose amendments to the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill. There were a lot of amendments. Sen. Charles Grassley, ranking Republican on the committee, proposed 77. Fellow...
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