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GOP questions IRS scrutiny of anti-abortion groups
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the IRS asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs were...
Tags: Taxation, Parties and Movements, Social Issues, Planned Parenthood, Employees
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An Alabama senator's lost cause
WASHINGTON — Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff Sessions is taking now. Bipartisan immigration legislation is making its way inexorably through the Senate Judiciary...Tags: Parties and Movements, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Migration, Mike Lee, Chuck Schumer
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Senate panel approves immigration bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Far-reaching legislation to grant a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly...Tags: Migration, Chuck Schumer, Lindsey O. Graham, Elections, Illegal Immigrants
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Immigration bill: Gang label amendment goes down
The Senate Judiciary Committee continued its markup of a bipartisan immigration reform bill Monday, rejecting an amendment by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) that would have barred undocumented immigrants who are merely suspected of belonging to a gang,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Migration, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Justice System, Same-Sex Marriage
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George Michael: Obamacare - The coming train wreck
According to one national leader, Obamacare is “a huge train wreck coming down.” You might be tempted to dismiss this quote as another tea party attack on the president’s health care law. But you would be wrong. This statement was...Tags: Labor Legislation, Judges, Transportation Accidents, The Herald-Mail, The Washington Post
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Immigration and gang labels
The Senate Judiciary Committee is just beginning its markup of the bipartisan immigration bill, but already opponents and supporters of the sweeping legislation are fighting over which immigrants should be allowed to legalize their status and which should...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice, Migration, Career and Workplace, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Senate panel focuses on enforcement in immigration bill
WASHINGTON — Senators kept the bipartisan immigration bill largely unchanged Thursday after dispatching dozens of proposed amendments even as they punted many of the thorniest issues to next week. The day's session at the Senate Judiciary...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Labor Legislation, Migration, Mike Lee, Chuck Schumer
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Senators tighten student visa rules in immigration bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee amended the sweeping immigration bill Tuesday to tighten student visa rules in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. The committee, which is trying to get through the 844-page bill by the end of the week, also...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Migration, Chuck Schumer, Teaching and Learning, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Opponents say Common Core oversimplifies education, lessens local control
Daily American Staff WriterPeople opposed to Common Core State Standards say that it is a "one-size-fits-all" approach to education and that it takes away local control of schools. Some states have halted the standards' implementation. The Republican National Committee in early...Tags: Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Teaching and Learning, Tea Party Movement, Students
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Immigration bill survives first day of debate in Senate committee
WASHINGTON — After eight hours of debate, the bipartisan Senate immigration bill emerged mostly intact Thursday, despite Republican-led efforts to make substantial alterations in the first of what is certain to be many long committee meetings to...Tags: Parties and Movements, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Migration, Politics, Lindsey O. Graham
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Many amendments, few changes to immigration overhaul
WASHINGTON -- Senators on Thursday began the arduous task of going through some 300 proposed amendments to the delicately constructed bipartisan immigration bill. By lunch, they had disposed of 17. With a packed audience of many pro-immigration...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Gays and Lesbians, Migration, Chuck Schumer, Politics
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GOP ramps up criticism of Perez
WASHINGTON -- Congressional Republicans, including Maryland Rep. Andy Harris, stepped up their criticism of Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez on Tuesday, amplifying their concerns a day before the former state official faces a Senate committee vote on his...Tags: Parties and Movements, Labor Legislation, Andrew P Harris, Elijah E. Cummings, Lawyers
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