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Boston.com
| 4 months ago
Sen. Richard Blumenthal is joining immigrant advocates from around Connecticut who are stepping up pressure for comprehensive immigration reforms Blumenthal is scheduled to join immigrant advocates, students and representatives of labor unions who...
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BBC
| 4 months ago
Mr Obama recently told the The New Republic magazine: "Up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time." The photo , dated 4 August 2012, shows Mr Obama standing in jeans, polo shirt, sunglasses and earphones, aiming a rifle that has a smoking...
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The New York Times
| 4 months ago
Soon, the bipartisan group of about eight House members hopes to unveil its own immigration legislation, adding a voice to a growing swell of politicians a bipartisan group in the Senate, as well as President Obama who say they are serious about...
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BusinessInsider
| 4 months ago
It seems everything's coming up Milhouse for immigration reform this week. The Senate and White House are pushing fairly similar plans, conservative leaders like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) are working overtime to charm the right, and even some hardline...
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Star Tribune
| 4 months ago
President Barack Obama says 2013 can be a year of solid economic growth, but only if Washington gets out of the way. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says there are signs of progress in real estate, manufacturing and job-creation...
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Merced Sun Star
| 4 months ago
Can President Barack Obama make his second term more productive than the final gridlocked years of his first? Can Democrats and Republicans in Congress relearn the forgotten art of compromise after years of angry polarization? The answers may depend...
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National Public Radio
| 4 months ago
Marco Rubio has been the junior senator from Florida for barely two years, but he's already considered a likely 2016 presidential contender. The 41-year-old Republican's political star rose still higher this week when he joined a bipartisan group of...
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CNN
| 4 months ago
And so it is that, as the immigration debate reignites, the Florida senator's star power is winning over the world of conservative talk radio. Whether it's the radio shows hosted by Mark Levin or Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh, Rubio's appearances are...
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The Hill
| 4 months ago
Obama in 2007 backed an amendment to sunset a guest worker program that was an essential part of an immigration deal crafted by Republicans and former Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.). Kennedy opposed the amendment, but Obama who was then running for...
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The Washington Times
| 4 months ago
President Obama is on the verge of completing his socialist revolution. Remarkably, he is about to be aided and abetted by some Republicans including leaders of the Tea Party ...At a recent major policy speech in Las Vegas, Mr. Obama pushed for...
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Miami Herald
| 4 months ago
Sen. Marco Rubio was lifted to national prominence with help from the tea party, but his leadership on immigration reform has elicited strong reaction from members of the conservative movement, from outrage to acceptance...They're not happy with him,...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 4 months ago
Rubio has courted conservative commentators in recent weeks, outlining a set of principles for changes in immigration law that include a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants who live in the United States. He's in the vanguard of...
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The New York Times
| 4 months ago
Make sure you get out there and define what you're trying to do, said former Senator Trent Lott, the Mississippi Republican who, in 2007, was the minority whip when his chamber's immigration efforts imploded . Don't forget to pay attention to the...
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Washington Post
| 4 months ago
But although Republican leaders are newly interested in a compromise on immigration, many in the party say allowing undocumented immigrants to live here legally is enough and that a push for citizenship would face fierce, and possibly insurmountable,...
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Star Tribune
| 4 months ago
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee ended 2012 with large debts. Campaign finance reports filed Thursday show Obama's campaign ended the year with $5.8 million in debt while his party's political arm,...
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Newsbusters
| 4 months ago
Apart from finding out that Barack Obama did far worse in his re-election than nearly any other incumbent who won re-election, the only thing that perked me up after Nov. 6 was coming across a Time magazine published after the 2004 election, when...
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CNSNews.com
| 4 months ago
The White House is in agreement with Sen. Marco Rubio's assertion that if illegal immigrants are granted legal status, they will not be eligible for Obamacare, according to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. Marco Rubio has said that he would...
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The Washington Times
| 4 months ago
The left-leaning Public Policy Polling has found an overwhelming support from Texas Republicans to impeach President Obama. What's even more intriguing is the amount of minorities who support the idea, with 15 percent of Texas' blacks and 30 percent...
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The Dish Rag
| 4 months ago
Republicans will never win back the White House in 2016 if Rubio has his way. Coulter writes : The Democrats never change their ideas; they change the voters. For decades, Democrats have been working feverishly to create more Democrats by encouraging...
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Los Angeles Times
| 4 months ago
President Obama said that the bipartisan group of senators working on immigration legislation was following a reasonable timeline and suggested he would push to get a bill passed in the first half of the year. In a pair of interviews the day after...
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Al Jazeera English
| 4 months ago
02 US President says if Congress delays he has a 'bill drafted, we've got language' ready to offer Capitol Hill [AFP] Barack Obama, the US president, says he is looking for immigration reform to be completed within six months, adding "now is the time"...
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The New York Times
| 4 months ago
Officials in the West Wing are convinced that the politics of the immigration issue have firmly shifted in their direction. That belief is fueling the president's push for quick action and broad changes that go beyond what Republicans are signaling...
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Truthdig
| 4 months ago
Jan 30, 2013 Think back to the battle over health care reform. Can you imagine Republicans, upon hearing that President Obama was about to offer his own proposals, would want to rush ahead of him to put their own marker downand take positions close...
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BBC
| 4 months ago
President Barack Obama has said US immigration reform could be achieved within six months, in an interview with Spanish-language TV channel Telemundo. The president said reform should pass in 2013 and he would put "everything" into securing a deal...
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SF Gate
| 4 months ago
President Barack Obama says he's looking for immigration reform to be completed within six months. Obama said a deal should certainly be attainable this year, but he wants one even sooner. He said that politics, not technical issues, are standing in...
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Star Tribune
| 4 months ago
President Barack Obama says he's looking for immigration reform to be completed within six months. He tells the Spanish-language TV network Telemundo that a deal should be attainable this year, but he wants it done even sooner. He says that politics,...
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Star Tribune
| 4 months ago
A group of a half-dozen House members, equally divided between Democrats and Republicans, is nearing completion of wide-ranging immigration legislation similar to proposals by Senate negotiators and President Barack Obama, including a pathway to...
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The Guardian
| 4 months ago
Senator Marco Rubio and a bipartisan group of leading senators speak about plans for sweeping immigration reform. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP In 2008, Barack Obama sailed into the presidency on a wave of promises most of which he didn't keep.
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San Jose Mercury News
| 4 months ago
Suddenly a lot of powerful people on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are grabbing hold of the "third rail." That's the term Rahm Emanuel -- former U.S. representative, White House chief of staff and now mayor of Chicago -- used to describe the...
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Sacramento Bee
| 4 months ago
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is wading into the immigration thicket again, less than six years after a titanic battle over the same issue left the Seneca Republican badly bruised and on the losing side. Like then, Graham is a year away from...
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CNN
| 4 months ago
When the four Democrats and four Republicans announced that they planned to propose a deal on immigration reform, they joined gangs that have gone before them -- usually a bipartisan group of senators or representatives who think they can bring...
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Taiwan News
| 4 months ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Website Editorial Staff 2013-01-30 02:47 PM President Barack Obama declared that "now is the time" to fix the broken U.S...Obama , speaking Tuesday at a campaign-style rally in...
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News 24
| 4 months ago
President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that long-sought reforms to a "broken" immigration system were within America's grasp, seeking to lock in rare momentum towards a major cross-party compromise. Obama laid out principles on the divisive issue...
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Denver Post
| 4 months ago
Seizing an opening to rewrite the nation's immigration laws, President Barack Obama challenged Congress on Tuesday to act swiftly to put 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States on a clear path to citizenship. But his push for speedy...
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Chicago Tribune
| 4 months ago
So the 50 or so Chicago immigrants and activists who gathered in Pilsen on Tuesday to watch President Barack Obama lay out his plan for comprehensive immigration reform in 2013 greeted this latest proposal with guarded optimism. "I'm probably more...
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Salem News
| 4 months ago
On the heels of an immigration reform framework released yesterday by a bipartisan group of United States Senators, today President Obama released his own vision for an overhaul to the nation's broken immigration system. During a speech in Las Vegas...
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Salem News
| 4 months ago
Greenlining Institute Executive Director Orson Aguilar issued the following statement in response to new immigration reform efforts announced this week by President Obama and a bipartisan group of senators: We are heartened that Congress and the...
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The Guardian
| 4 months ago
The path to citizenship will be unreasonably prolonged and subject to manipulation' It's encouraging that President Obama and the bipartisan group of senators have called for a path to citizenship for undocumented persons living in our communities.
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United Press International
| 4 months ago
Supporters of immigration reform praised President Obama's speech Tuesday calling for Congress to act on a "badly broken" system. Obama told a cheering crowd in Las Vegas it's time to fix "an immigration system that's out of date and badly broken."
