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Fate of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and DREAM Act To Be Decided Saturday
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAfter months of fits and starts, the Senate will vote Saturday on two controversial measures for the last time in the 111th Congress -- the DREAM Act and a bill repealing "Don't ask, Don't tell," the ban against gays serving openly in the military. The DREAM Act would give young illegal immigrants a path to citizenship if they complete two years of college or two years in the military. To qualify, they also must have come to the country before the age of 16 and have been in the United States longer than five years. It is a top priority for the Latino community this year since it became clear ...
DREAM Act Immigration Bill Delayed in the Senate
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe Senate voted 59 to 40 Thursday to delay consideration of the DREAM Act, a bill that would give young illegal immigrants a path to citizenship if they complete two years of college or two years in the U.S. military. To qualify, they also must have arrived in the country before the age of 16 and have lived in the United States longer than five years. Following the vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that he hoped to bring a modified version of the bill back to the Senate for consideration next week. "We remain in our usual state in the Senate -- a state of flux," Reid ...
Should Congress Pass the Dream Act? Opinions Vary
By David Knowles - AOL News(Dec. 8) -- Does Congress love a dream? The Dream Act, legislation designed to give children of undocumented workers who came to the United States under the age 16 a path to citizenship in exchange for a promise to attend college or join the military, will be debated in Congress today. Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, a staunch opponent of the Dream Act, penned an op-ed for CNN in which he stated the following: Because the Dream Act does not expire, or impose any numerical cap, the scope of the bill's amnesty program could be enormous. And by rewarding illegality, the legislation ...
Obama to Hispanic Caucus: Calls for DREAM Act Passage, but No Specifics
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyMeeting with leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at the White House Tuesday, President Obama reiterated his support for fixing the country's "broken immigration system" -- but gave little indication that in this year's remaining lame-duck congressional session, his administration could win passage of key legislation granting legal status to some illegal immigrant students. The president, in a White House statement released following the meeting, thanked caucus members Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) "for their constant ...
The Majority of US Senators Are Millionaires
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 28) -- Just in case you thought money doesn't equal power ... More than half of the U.S. senators are millionaires and four more fall just 100 grand short of the million-dollar mark, according to a recent Roll Call analysis. The survey, based on a review of Senate financial disclosure forms filed in 2010, also indicated that the majority of senators saw their fortunes grow during the past year. While many of the senators amassed their wealth through common means, Roll Call actually makes a point of highlighting the recent prevalence of increased wealth by inheritance in the Senate. For ...
Democrats Court Hispanics with Promises, Pleas and the 'Dream Act'
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK -- Swept aside by other more urgent campaign issues, a long-delayed immigration bill re-surfaced last week when leading Democrats needing Hispanic support in the midterms decided to bring to a vote legislation that would open a path to citizenship for students who are illegal immigrants. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader who finds himself in the political battle of his life against a Tea Party candidate, said he would attach the immigration bill to a defense spending measure. If passed, the immigration bill would give legal status to students who came to the United ...
Republicans Win Delay of Elena Kagan Confirmation Vote
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRepublicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have won a one-week delay of a vote on Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court, citing the need to review reams of documents related to Kagan's work in the Clinton administration, as well as written answers to questions from six committee Republicans, which she submitted only Friday. The move is one of the few procedural maneuvers Republicans have to slow Kagan's confirmation process, which has moved smoothly thus far. Although the committee's chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), has the authority to schedule the panel's votes, the minority ...
Kagan Supporters Optimistic on Confirmation
By not in system - AOL News(June 30) -- The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan aren't over yet, but it's hard to escape the impression that, however they'll vote, the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have little else to consider. And there was considerable optimism among Kagan supporters that she'll be confirmed. Yes, there are 24 witnesses on the official list still to be heard. But they'll be squeezed into one more day of testimony, and even that won't start until Thursday at 4 p.m. ET -- the late Sen. Robert Byrd will be lying in state in the Senate until that time, and senators ...
Kagan Declines to Criticize Roberts Court
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 30) -- Elena Kagan declined an invitation to criticize the current Supreme Court on Wednesday, testifying at the third day of her confirmation hearings, "I'm sure everyone up there is acting in good faith." In a lengthy exchange with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Kagan said pointedly she didn't agree with the Rhode Island Democrat's analysis that justices appointed by Republican presidents were "driving the law in a new direction by the narrowest possible margins" in a series of 5-4 rulings. The exchange occurred as Kagan returned to the witness chair for another long day of ...
Kagan Insists She Didn't Block Military at Harvard
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 29) -- Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan maneuvered carefully through tough Republican questioning on military recruitment at Harvard Law School, gun owners' rights and free speech Tuesday, giving little ground to critics and drawing strong praise from Senate Democrats who command the votes to confirm her. In a long day of questioning at a hearing that stretched into the evening, Kagan came under fire from Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, for her decision as dean of Harvard Law to bar recruiters from the school's career services office ...
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