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First look: The amendment that could decide the fate of immigration reform
Byron York | 06/17/13 10:25 PM
As the Senate debate over the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill reaches full speed this week, leading Democrats have pronounced the border security amendment proposed by Republican Sen. John Cornyn a “non-starter.” To break through what could become a deadlock, other GOP...
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Supreme Court rejects Arizona voter ID law
Sean Lengell | 06/17/13 07:25 PM
The Supreme Court's rejection Monday of an Arizona law that demands voters prove they are citizens before casting ballots threatens to scuttle similar state laws nationwide. The justices decided 7-2 to uphold a lower court's ruling that rejected the law, which requires residents to show...
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CBO score of immigration bill’s effect on budget comes out Tuesday
Joel Gehrke | 06/17/13 07:10 PM
Tomorrow, the Congressional Budget Office will release its assessment of the Senate immigration bill’s effect on the federal budget, a Senate Budget Committee spokesman told the Washington Examiner. “It will come out tomorrow,” Stephen Miller, a spokesman for Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.,...
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Rise in illegal crossings roils immigration debate
Byron York | 06/17/13 07:10 PM
In an unguarded moment, Chuck Schumer confirms news reports that the southern border remains porous, with millions more expected to slip though in coming years. There was a striking moment in the Senate Judiciary Committee's debate on the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill...
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Obama, Vladimir Putin agree to disagree on Syria
Brian Hughes | 06/17/13 05:15 PM
President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin emerged from two hours of talks Monday no closer to a compromise for curtailing a civil war in Syria that has killed more than 93,000 people. “With respect to Syria, we do have different perspectives on the problems, but we share an...
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Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials
06/17/13 05:06 PM
Green Bay Press-Gazette, June 15 Obama's 2nd term stumbles out of gate The Affordable Care Act could make or break President Barack Obama's second term and ultimately put a stamp on his legacy. Beset by a Congress that cannot agree on anything and a dizzying supply of scandals and...
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Is Obama losing young voters?
Michael Barone | 06/17/13 05:00 PM
Barack Obama’s job approval rating is down to 45% in the lastest CNN/ORC poll, conducted June 11-13, with 54% disapproval; the approval number is down from 53% in CNN/ORC’s May 17-18 poll. Most interesting result: Obama is getting only 48 approval from those age 18 to 34, only 3% above his...
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Obama mortgage regulator hires current mortgage lobbyist
Timothy P. Carney | 06/17/13 04:45 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has hired Charles Landgraf, who appears to be a currently registered lobbyist, as an adviser to help form policy on a product involved in mortgage lending called “force-place insurance.” Landgraf lobbies for a major bank on that exact issue. This seems to...
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Bob Corker blocks Afghan spending bill over millions in payments to Karzai
Susan Crabtree | 06/17/13 03:40 PM
Sen. Bob Corker, the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, is demanding to know why the U.S. government allegedly has made tens of millions of dollars in cash payments to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his relatives, despite continued complaints of corruption at all levels of the...
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After House blocks Gitmo closure, Obama taps envoy
Susan Crabtree | 06/17/13 03:25 PM
Under pressure to demonstrate a renewed commitment to shutter the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Obama has tapped a high-powered Washington attorney as one of two special envoys dedicated to brokering a deal to close the facility. Obama chose Clifford Sloan, an attorney with...
