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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:
In...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/13/13 09:40 AM
If you believe that the best possible political outcome for Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is that he establishes himself as the face of Republican efforts to reform immigration, but then Democrats ultimately kill immigration reform, then Wednesday was a great day for Marco Rubio.
While leading...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/12/13 03:45 PM
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, offered a new amendment to the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill today, but Democrats quickly refused to even consider it.
According to Talking Points Memo‘s Brian Beutler, Democrats are refusing to even negotiate with Cornyn, whose new RESULTS amendment supposedly...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/12/13 08:10 AM
“A foreign worker will never be hired to undercut an American worker’s wage,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., claimed on the Senate floor yesterday in his opening statement in support of his Schumer-Rubio immigration reform bill. But as The Washington Examiner‘s Phil Klein explained...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/11/13 03:15 PM
As the United States Senate began debating Sen. Marco Rubio’s, R-Fla., immigration reform bill today, The Heritage Foundation launched an unprecedented online advertising campaign against the legislation.
“The bill is an amnesty proposal dressed up in feel-good ‘pathway to citizenship’...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/11/13 08:20 AM
Like most Republicans in Congress, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., desperately wants to vote for immigration reform. Being the bad guy on border security is not why she ran for the Senate and, like most Republicans, she just wishes the issue would disappear entirely. Hence her decision this weekend...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/10/13 01:55 PM
Pro-amnesty Republicans received a boost Sunday when Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., published an op-ed announcing her support for the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill that the Senate will begin debating Tuesday. “I ran for the Senate to make tough, independent decisions to strengthen our country,...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/07/13 03:05 PM
Why is the Obama recovery the weakest recovery since the Great Depression? According to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, it is not because the federal government failed to borrow and spend too little during the height of the economic downturn.
In fact, the San...
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By Conn Carroll |
06/07/13 10:15 AM
Driven largely by a flood of new workers entering the labor force, the nation’s unemployment rate rose to 7.6 percent today as the nation’s employers reported creating just 175,000 jobs.
Almost 320,000 more Americans reported having jobs in May than the previous month, according to the...
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