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The Front Burner: Should immigration plan pass?
Months after its eight sponsors — including Florida Republican Marco Rubio — began their work, the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly this week to begin debate on a bipartisan proposal to rewrite U.S. immigration policy. S. 744 reads like a...Tags: Barack Obama, Migration, Politics, Mel Martinez, Immigration
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Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated -chief of staff
ReutersWASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama does not believe the recently disclosed top-secret National Security Agency surveillance of phone records and Internet data has violated Americans' privacy rights, his chief of staff said on Sunday....Tags: FBI, Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, Robert Mueller, NBC (tv network)
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Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated: chief of staff
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama does not believe the recently disclosed top-secret National Security Agency surveillance of phone records and Internet data has violated Americans' privacy rights, his chief of staff said on Sunday. Denis...Tags: National Government, FBI, Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, Robert Mueller
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White House says 'scope and scale' of aid to Syrian rebels may grow
WASHINGTON — White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said Sunday that “the scope and scale” of assistance to Syrian rebels will expand, based on evidence that the Assad government is gaining ground in the protracted civil war and that...
Tags: Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Mike J. Rogers, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Congress Erodes Sovereignty Of States
The Hartford CourantIn May 1918, with America embroiled in the First World War, Iowa's Gov. William Lloyd Harding dealt a blow against Germany. His Babel Proclamation — that was its title; you cannot make this stuff up — decreed: "Conversation in public places,...Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lotteries, Crime, Law and Justice, Religion and Belief
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Edward Snowden's not the first to make claims about NSA
WASHINGTON — Mathematician William Binney worked for the National Security Agency for four decades, and in the late 1990s he helped design a system to sort through the digital data the agency was sucking up in the exploding universe of bits and...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Substance Abuse, Crime, Law and Justice, Jarmes R. Clapper
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Key Republican senator says still backs U.S. immigration bill
ReutersWASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - Republican Senator Marco Rubio said on Sunday he still supports a bill to overhaul the U.S. immigration, but reiterated that he wants its stipulations on border security to be tightened in order for the legislation to win...Tags: State of the Union Address, Barack Obama, Migration, Bob Menendez, Crime, Law and Justice
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Venezuela considers taking bottles from babies' mouths
ReutersCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's Congress will discuss legislation next week that would prohibit bottle feeding of infants to try to encourage breast feeding and reduce the use of baby formula, said a lawmaker of the ruling Socialist Party. Legislator...Tags: Venezuela, Caracas (Venezuela), Nicolas Maduro, Family, Children's Health
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Families on food stamps would suffer while farms get fat
As a member of Congress, Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) is proud to stand up for the principles of limited government and individual responsibility. The first-term congressman expresses skepticism about such safety-net programs as food stamps, regarding...
Tags: Doug LaMalfa, Poverty, Science and Technology, Unemployment Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Letters to the Editor - June 16
Finish the job of Medgar Evers To the editor: Mississippi’s tireless civil-rights worker, Medgar Evers, was killed 50 years ago. An assassin’s bullet mortally wounded Evers in front of his home, leaving a widow and depriving three...Tags: National Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, Justice and Rights, Criminal Laws
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Column: Head-in-the-sand Congress
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal government new powers to investigate potential...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Eric Holder, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Central Intelligence Agency
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Farming: June is . . . a mess
Less than a generation ago, June meant the end of school, the beginning of summer and the arrival of Dairy Month. Now, somehow, June has become the Golf Channel’s official Pace of Play Month, LGBT Pride Month (you can look that up) and Farm Bill...Tags: Collin Peterson, Parties and Movements, John Boehner, Pat Roberts, John Thune
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