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By Conn Carroll |
06/18/13 12:05 PM
For almost 20 years, California’s 52nd Congressional District was owned by the Republican Party. Then in 2012, Democrat Scott Peters stole it from them. Now, Republicans want it back. And they have turned to an openly gay former-San Diego city councilman to do it.
Since the district was...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/18/13 08:15 AM
CNN released a poll today showing that, by a 62 percent to 36 percent margin, Americans believe “the main focus of the U.S. government in dealing with immigration policy” should be “increasing border security to reduce or eliminate the number of immigrants coming into this country,” and...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/17/13 10:50 AM
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has issued a statement responding to quotes from an unidentified aide of his in the New Yorker.
“The quote attributed to a member of my staff was a description of one argument used against big labor’s opposition to a guest worker program. It is not my view in any...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/17/13 09:40 AM
U.S. employers added just 175,000 jobs last month, and the nation’s unemployment rate actually rose to 7.6 percent. As completely unacceptable as these numbers are for a supposed economic recovery, the construction industry is suffering even worse. A full 10.8 percent of the nation’s...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/17/13 06:35 AM
President Obama told a Democratic fund raising event in April that he wants Nancy Pelosi back as Speaker of the House and vowed to do everything in his power to make that happen in the 2014 congressional election.
"She never lets ideology cloud her judgment," Obama told the crowd that produced...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/16/13 06:20 PM
Disagreements happen all the time in Congress. It is a natural part of any democracy. But what doesn't happen all the time is a sitting senator essentially calling a witness a liar.
And that is exactly what Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., did to Heritage Foundation scholar Dr. Salim Furth...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/14/13 10:15 AM
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., may have called off Senate floor debate after Democrats and pro-amnesty Republicans failed to get 60 votes against a border security amendment yesterday, but it appears that Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is already willing to vote for final passage if some...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/14/13 08:10 AM
Senate passage of the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill is looking like far less of a sure thing after Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Senate Democrats voted down an amendment yesterday that would have secured the border first before granting illegal immigrants citizenship.
For those paying...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/13/13 11:05 AM
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., voted with Senate Democrats today to kill an amendment by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, that would have required the federal government to secure the border first before granting legalization to currently illegal immigrants.
All four Republican members of the...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/13/13 10:45 AM
Democrats, apparently, are completely willing to blow up immigration reform if Republicans insist on adding Sen. John Cornyn’s, R-Texas, RESULTS amendment to the bill. The Washington Post‘s Greg Sargent explains why two of the new triggers in the Cornyn plan are deal breakers for Dems:
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