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WASHINGTON — A pared-down immigration bill that would give as many as 2.1 million undocumented immigrants under 35 a shot at higher education and legal status is receiving renewed interest because of the short time frame before the November midterm elections. The DREAM Act — or Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors legislation — would give undocumented young people the chance to earn permanent residency and eventually citizenship if they graduate from U.S. high schools, have been in the country at least five years continuously and meet educational or military service stipulations.
WASHINGTON — The debate in Congress over an $82 billion war spending bill has opened up a war of a different sort — a fierce clash between House Democrats and the Obama White House over two highly sensitive issues: the nation’s huge budget deficit and the lingering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Related White House Memo: Spend or Scrimp
The House approved a war spending bill on Thursday with a provision that would include $10 billion to help school districts avoid educator layoffs, paying for the effort, in part, with $800 million in cuts to several of President Obama ’s key education initiatives. Blog The Caucus The latest on President Obama, his administration and other news from Washington and around the nation.
WASHINGTON — Adele Dalesandro stepped inside the U.S. Supreme Court wide-eyed
Maddow Gamely Spins Napolitano’s ‘System Worked’ Absurdity About Flight 253
Posted on 04 January 2010
Next time Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano needs a media flack/coat catcher, I know just the right person.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is lashing out at critics who took Napolitano to task for claiming “the system worked” in response to a terrorist with explosives [...]
If attacks on soldiers now qualify, how is it possible to exclude many American actions?
By Glenn Greenwald
The incomparably pernicious Joe Lieberman said yesterday on Fox News that he intends to launch an investigation into “the motives of Hasan in carrying out this brutal mass murder, if a terrorist attack, the worst terrorist attack since 9/11.” Hasan's attack [...]