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Oct 29 2013
News
Alabama Agrees To Permanently Gut Immigration Law
Opponents of Alabama's strict immigration law are declaring victory Tuesday, as the state agreed not to pursue key provisions of a measure critics had called an endorsement of racial profiling. Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the state's appeal of a federal court's ruling that gutted the law.
NPR (Online News)
Dec 11 2012
News
House, Senate Democrats: ‘We’re Not Budging’ on Entitlement Cuts in Fiscal Cliff Deal
Senior House and Senate Democrats said that they were opposed to any fiscal cliff deal that would cut Medicare or Medicaid, telling the White House and House Republicans they opposed any plan that would cut federal health care programs.
CNSNews.com
Jan 12 2015
News
Supreme Court won't hear Louisiana gay marriage case
The Supreme Court denied a plea from gay and lesbian couples in Louisiana on Monday that it consider striking down the state's ban against same-sex marriage.
The decision means that a district court ruling upholding the ban there first must be challenged in a federal appeals court, where it was argued Friday along with cases from Texas and Mississippi.
USA TODAY
Dec 22 2013
News
Hill lawmakers battle over future of NSA spying, in wake of White House report
Capitol Hill lawmakers involved in national intelligence concerns disagreed Sunday about whether to stop the NSA's massive phone-record gathering following the release of a White House report that calls for the federal government to no longer store such information and questions whether the program indeed stops terror attacks.
Fox News (Online News)
Apr 22 2013
News
House committee wants administration's intelligence on Tamerlan Tsarnaev
A Republican-led House committee is asking the Obama administration for all information on the Boston bombing suspect once suspected of engaging in terrorist activities saying the tragedy mark another intelligence failure and raises serious questions about the efficacy of the federal counterterrorism efforts.
Fox News (Online News)
Oct 31 2019
News
Impeachment Committees Ask Bolton to Testify
House investigators are summoning former national security adviser John Bolton to testify in their impeachment inquiry, deepening their reach into the White House as the probe accelerates toward a potential vote to remove the president.
But Bolton's lawyer, Charles Cooper, says Bolton will not appear without a subpoena.
Democrat lawmakers want to hear next week from Bolton, the
Newsmax (News)
Oct 17 2013
News
Shutdown Over, Government Slowly Gets Back to Normal
The United States government sputtered back to life Thursday morning after President Obama and Congress ended a 16-day shutdown, clearing the way for federal agencies to again deliver services, reopen public facilities and welcome hundreds of thousands of furloughed employees returning to work.
New York Times (News)
Apr 24 2019
News
Supreme Court Appears To Lean Toward Allowing Census Citizenship Question
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court appear split along ideological lines on whether a citizenship question can be included on forms for the upcoming 2020 census.
Based on their questions during Tuesday's oral arguments at the high court, the justices appear ready to vote 5-4 to allow the Trump administration to add the hotly contested questions to forms for next year's national head
NPR (Online News)
May 26 2015
News
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Says Supreme Court Decision On Marriage Equality 'Just The Beginning'
“Our fight for LGBT equality is not nearly over,” Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) stated emphatically in an interview last week. “And I’m hopeful, very hopeful, that the Supreme Court will say it’s unconstitutional to ban gay marriage. But that’s really just the beginning of fighting for our rights. We have to actually make sure all LGBT couples can have full parenting rights, have full
HuffPost
Jun 06 2016
Opinion
The politics of perception: why we always think we're right
Steven Colbert’s take on how people would react to the State Department’s recent report stating that Hillary Clinton violated federal standards in her use of a private e-mail server – and that past secretaries of State were slow to follow standards – hit the nail on the head:
“If you thought Hillary Clinton was corrupt, you just had all of your suspicions validated. And if you thought
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