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Sequencing the Key on DADT Repeal
So Joe Lieberman went on MSNBC and publicly stated that the Senate should move Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal first, before the new START treaty, or basically the Senate will run out of time to address...
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Reid Commits to Vote on Several Matters, Unclear on Timing
That’s Harry Reid, talking about votes expected in the remainder of the lame duck session. He cited START, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the DREAM Act, the 9-11 health care bill and possibly votes on judicial...
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Republicans Taking Other Hostages, Threaten to Shoot START if DADT Repealed
Bob Corker, speaking softly to Olivier Knox, casually says that the START treaty won’t pass if Don’t Ask Don’t Tell or the DREAM Act get a vote tomorrow. Corker voted against bringing up START in the...
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Saturday Session: Decision Day for DREAM Act, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
The Senate is in session right now, with votes scheduled to start at 10:30am ET. Cloture on the motion to concur on the DREAM Act is first. If that fails, the Senate will move to cloture on a motion to...
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Senate Passes Food Safety Bill Again; Sets Final Vote for New START
The Senate continued a mad rush in their fairly productive lame duck session today, passing a food safety bill and filing cloture to end debate on ratification of the new START treaty. The food safety...
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Graham, McCain Pushed START Treaty Help if Democrats Stopped DADT Repeal Bill
I’m not buying this notion that Republicans who had their fee-fees hurt by ending official discrimination in the military will take it out on a nuclear arms reduction treaty and summarily make the...
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Passage Looks Secure for New START Treaty
After the defeat of three amendments to the START treaty yesterday, Republican support has lined up for the nuclear arms reduction measure. Yesterday Scott Brown gave his support; today it was Lamar...
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New START Treaty Clears Cloture with 67 Votes, Passage Nearly Assured
In a cloture vote, the Senate today voted by a 67-28 margin to cut off debate on the new START nuclear arms reduction treaty, displaying enough bipartisan support to ratify the treaty with a 2/3...
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Grumbling from Republicans Seeing Progress in Lame Duck Session
Lindsey Graham delivered one of the more unintentionally hilarious media appearances in recent memory this afternoon, slamming his own party for “capitulations” in the lame duck session. Graham said...
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New START Victory Clear; Broader Nuclear Disarmament Vision Looks Unlikely
The Senate is about to vote on the new START nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia, and all expectations are that the treaty will pass. This caps off a very productive lame duck session with a...
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DREAM-Eligible Youth Line Up by the Thousands to Apply for Deferred Action...
It’s only the first day, and we’ll have to wait for the numbers over a longer time horizon; but if these lines and these stories are any indication, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)...
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Federal Court Blocks Some of Alabama Immigration Law, but “Papers Please”...
Federal courts have consistently trimmed back attempts by states to write their own immigration laws. The Supreme Court overturned much of the Arizona immigration law in June, and federal judges have...
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Anti-Immigrant Conservatives File Suit Against Administration’s Policy of...
Fresh off reshaping the immigration plank of the GOP platform in the most extreme manner possible, Kris Kobach, the Kansas Secretary of State, has sued Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano over...
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DREAMer Deferred Action Suffering From Low Application Submissions
Dream ActivistsThe first day of the Obama Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program saw thousands of DREAM-eligible youth line up for the chance to apply for two years of...
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Romney: I Won’t Cancel Deferred Action Status for DREAM-Eligible Immigrants
In a move that could increase participation in the Obama Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Mitt Romney said in an interview with the Denver Post that he would not...
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Senate Democrats Will Make Public Effort on Immigration in 2013
Given the changing demographics of the country and the prominence of what you could frankly call identity politics in this week’s election, it would be political malpractice for Democrats not to press...
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Republican Version of DREAM Act Just Elongated, Hoop-Jumping Version of...
My understanding is that Republicans oppose the DREAM Act because they oppose a path to citizenship for any undocumented immigrant, regardless of their circumstances. They don’t really care if the...
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House Republicans Show Movement on Immigration
Republican Senators introduced an alternative version of the DREAM Act today, and all you need to know about it is that the two sponsors, Jon Kyl and Kay Bailey Hutchison, are retiring. Marco Rubio...
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Court Hears Arguments on Constitutionality of the Filibuster
While Senators work out a potential compromise on the filibuster, one which would in all likelihood keep the option of a supermajority requirement for legislation and confirmations intact while...
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Interview: Presente Responds To Obama Administration Arrests Of Member’s Family
Last week U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided the home of prominent immigrant rights activist Erika Andiola, and took away her mother, Maria, and her brother, Heriberto. Erika and her...
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