Time to Step Up to the Plate
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- Time to Step Up to the Plate. Casta�eda, Jorge G. // Newsweek (Atlantic Edition);2/20/2006, Vol. 147 Issue 8, p33
This article reports on three initiatives on immigration coming before the U.S. Senate Judiciary and Foreign Relations committees. One initiative is the so-called Sensenbrenner bill, which has already passed by the House of Representatives. The legislation seeks to build over 1,000 kilometers of...
- Capital Briefs. // Human Events;8/13/2007, Vol. 63 Issue 27, p4
This section offers news briefs concerning politics in the U.S. as of August 13, 2007. The administration of President George W. Bush has begun to voice complaints that the president's nominations of ambassadors are languishing in the Senate Foreign Relation's Committee. Congress and Bush...
- Capital Briefs. // Human Events;05/21/2001, Vol. 57 Issue 19, p2
Reports on various political issues and events in the United States (U.S.) as of May 21, 2001. Information on the amendments in the Senate version of the Bush education bill; Details on the Senate Judiciary Committee's vote on the nomination of Ted Olson on May 17, 2001; Proposed changes in the...
- Osama's Enabler in Congress. // Human Events;12/3/2001, Vol. 57 Issue 45, p1
Criticizes the stand of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on civil liberties of aliens in the United States prior to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Speculation on the motive behind his stand; Accusations made by Leahy against Attorney General John Ashcroft; Sworn testimony of Assistant...
- Capital Briefs. // Human Events;06/24/2002, Vol. 58 Issue 24, p2
Presents news briefs on the U.S. Congress as of June 24, 2002. Number of illegal aliens in the country; Number of judicial nominees who have not had a hearing before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee; Number of complaints filed by employees against the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
- Back to the '60s Barricades. Hanson, Victor Davis // American Enterprise;Apr2006, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p43
Criticizes Democrats in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee who raised the issue of the impact of wiretapping on freedom during confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Judge nominee Samuel Alito. Key reason Democrats are questioning Alito's credentials; Views that Democrats would like to...
- Groups seek to alter immigration-reform bill. Aston, Geri // AHA News;3/18/96, Vol. 32 Issue 11, p3
Reports that a coalition headed by the American Hospital Association (AHA) is working to strip from a US Senate Judiciary Committee bill a provision that would levy fees on employers, including hospitals, that hire legal foreign workers. Vote to split the immigration-reform measure into two...
- Current Comment. // America;12/10/1955, Vol. 94 Issue 11, p290
The article presents commentaries on social issues around the world. The U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization is holding hearings on the quota system of immigration. Austria is facing a throng of refugees from Hungary or Czechoslovakia. The Supreme Court decision...
- Should Congress Adopt The Pending "Immigration Reform And Control Act"? // Congressional Digest;Aug/Sep83, Vol. 62 Issue 8/9, p203
Presents excerpts from the statement made by Massachusetts senator Edward M. Kennedy presented to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary regarding the proposed Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1983.
