Illegal Immigration Foes Focus on 14th Amendment 'Citizenship Clause'
A fourth senior Republican senator has called for a review of the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause as it pertains to children born to illegal immigrants in the United States. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) on Tuesday said he supports Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who announced last week that he is considering introducing an amendment that would deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants. "We should change our Constitution and say that if you come here illegally and have a child, that child is automatically not a citizen," Graham said on Greta Van Susteren's show on Fox. "People come ...
Stimulus Bill Filled With Waste, Fraud, Say John McCain and Tom Coburn
Republican Sens. John McCain and Tom Coburn trashed the Obama administration's $862-billion stimulus bill on Tuesday, saying it plunged future generations into unmanageable debt and was filled with waste and fraud. With the August recess just a few days away, the two senators took a last-minute swing at Obama by releasing "Summertime Blues: 100 Stimulus Projects that Give Taxpayers the Blues." "There's going to be $50 billion in fraud from this bill," Coburn (R-Okla.) said. "We highlight things that we think are stupid and inappropriate." Both lawmakers stressed that the purpose of the ...
Small-Business Lending Bill Blocked by Republicans
Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a lending bill aimed at small businesses, saying it wouldn't do enough to help them or the economy. "The small-business lending bill contains many positive provisions, yet I do not believe that any member in this chamber truly believes that this bill will do enough to solve our job creation problems," said Sen. Orin Hatch (R-Utah). "This is because it ignores the main problems afflicting the economy and preventing the kind of job creation that we need right now. The bill before us misses the boat." Democrats needed 60 votes to advance the measure. On ...
Sen. Scott Brown on Arlington National Cemetery Failures: 'It's a Joke'
As many as 6,600 graves at Arlington National Cemetery could be unmarked or mislabeled, thousands more than the initial estimates, a Senate panel learned Thursday. The former superintendent said he didn't know how the problem could have happened. "As frustrated as you are with this, we are even more so," John Metzler, the former superintendent at Arlington, said during during testimony at a Senate subcommittee looking into the issue. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who chairs the subcommittee, said Thursday her investigations have found that 4,900 to 6,600 graves are unmarked or improperly ...
Facebook Never Sells Personal Data, Company CTO Tells Congress
Just a week after announcing it had reached 500 million users, Facebook defended its privacy controls amid concerns that it was selling private information to third parties without their consent. "Facebook never sells data to third parties or advertisers," the company's chief technology officer, Bret Taylor, told members of Congress on Tuesday. Appearing before a Senate committee, along with Apple, Google and AT&T, Facebook officials emphasized their commitment to maintaining the privacy of consumer information. This comes on the heels of Google's acknowledgment two months ago that it ...
Charlie Rangel Controversy Won't Hurt Democrats in Midterms, Hoyer says
In the wake of ethical allegations surrounding Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said the controversy will not hurt the Democrats in November's midterm elections. Hoyer suggested the upcoming midterms are too big to be bogged down by ethical accusations against one senior Democratic member of the House. Hoyer cited the midterms four years ago as a referendum on President George W. Bush's policies, which led to a changing of the guard in Congress. "The American public rejected economic policy and international policy that they believed were ...
Impacts of Oil Dispersants Unknown; Senators Demand Research
In the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Environmental Protection Agency admits it was unprepared and unaware of potential threats from the use of dispersants to break up oil and prevent it from reaching shore. "We need more research," Lisa Jackson, head of the EPA, told a Senate panel Thursday. "We need more information on all dispersants, and that is not only a BP problem. That is something that I believe needs to come out of this issue." She appeared before a Senate Appropriations Committee's science panel along with Larry Robinson, assistant secretary of commerce for the National ...
Boehner to Democrats: 'Grow Up'
WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader John Boehner on Thursday continued his war of words with President Obama and other Democrats, saying "it's time for them to grow up." The president and the Democrats "are in such a disarray up here that they can't produce a budget or a troop-funding bill," said Boehner, R-Ohio. Boehner and Obama have been jousting for some time. Shortly after Boehner compared the Wall Street reform bill, which was passed by the Senate on Thursday, to "killing an ant with a nuclear weapon," Obama quickly shot back, saying that the GOP leader was out of touch with the ...
Steny Hoyer: Democrats will not Lose House
WASHINGTON -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Tuesday that Democrats will not lose control of the House of Representatives to Republicans as a result of the November elections. "Are there enough seats in play? Probably close," Hoyer said. "The fact that they're in play does not mean by any stretch of the imagination that we will lose the House. I don't think we will lose the House." Hoyer's comments followed remarks Sunday on "Meet the Press" by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who said "there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to ...
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