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Silicon Valley intensifies lobbying on immigration bill
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eager to secure more visas for skilled foreign workers, tech companies have stepped up their lobbying this week in support of a comprehensive U.S. immigration reform bill. Human resources executives from Adobe , Broadcom , Intel...Tags: G8, Technology, Employment, Employment Opportunities, U.S. Senate
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Silicon Valley intensifies lobbying on U.S. immigration bill
Reuters* Bill boosts visa numbers for skilled foreign workers * Labor groups seek protection for U.S. workers By Rachelle Younglai and Caren Bohan WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - Eager to secure more visas for skilled foreign workers, tech companies have...Tags: G8, Technology, Employment, Employment Opportunities, U.S. Senate
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White House fights back on IRS as GOP keeps up pressure
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON — A senior White House aide insisted Sunday that President Obama learned only from news reports that an IRS office had singled out dozens of tea party organizations and other conservative groups for questionable scrutiny, while...Tags: Mitch McConnell, Prosecution, ABC (tv network), Taxation, Rand Paul
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Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'Doctor Who'
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 19 - 25, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Doctor Who The Doctor's (Matt Smith)...
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Mitch McConnell on 'Meet the Press'; Paul Ryan on 'Fox News Sunday'
Staff writerThe Sunday morning talk shows will find a lot to talk about in the Washington controversies over the IRS, the Department of Justice and the Benghazi attack. White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer will talk to NBC's "Meet the Press," CNN's "State of the...Tags: Mitch McConnell, POLITICO LLC, Dennis J. Kucinich, ABC (tv network), Bob Menendez
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Will Minnesota make a marriage equality trifecta?
Six months after Maryland, Maine and Washington voters endorsed same-sex marriage at the ballot box, two more states have adopted laws allowing gay couples to marry, and a third is poised to join them. On Tuesday, lawmakers in Delaware adopted a same-...Tags: Dick Cheney, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage, U.S. Senate, Justice System
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Child's play over the budget
WASHINGTON -- The budget feud on Capitol Hill is looking like those Vietnam War peace talks when negotiators bickered over the shape of the table. House Republicans, after howling for years about Senate Democrats' failure to pass a budget, are...
Tags: Harry Reid, Patty Murray, Ted Cruz, White House, Barack Obama
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Army says no to more tanks, but Congress insists
WASHINGTON (AP) — Built to dominate the enemy in combat, the Army's hulking Abrams tank is proving equally hard to beat in a budget battle. Lawmakers from both parties have devoted nearly half a billion dollars in taxpayer money over the past...
Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Lima (Peru), U.S. Congress, Parties and Movements, Saudi Arabia
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'Evolving' pols real hypocrites on marriage
Fingers to the wind, politicians now are falling all over themselves to declare they are no longer evolving but have evolved and support same-sex marriage, including the worst of the lot: Republicans who once used their opposition to it to rouse their...Tags: Punishment, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage, Mark Kirk, U.S. Congress
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GOP rejects gay marriage, asks Supreme Court to uphold Prop. 8
Republican leaders unanimously approved a resolution Friday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Proposition 8, the measure under court review that forbids same-sex marriage in California. The Republican National Committee “affirms its...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage, Mark Kirk, U.S. Supreme Court, Barack Obama
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Republicans debate message, battle bad messengers
ATLANTA (AP) — National Republican leaders made waves recently with a dim view of the party's future if it fails to expand its core support beyond white males and social conservatives. But weeks after GOP Chairman Reince Priebus unveiled the "Growth...
Tags: Bobby Jindal, Same-Sex Marriage, Barack Obama, Olympia J. Snowe, U.S. Congress
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Reckoning With Emotions' Powerful Political Pull
The Hartford CourantDuring Wednesday's debate on new gun laws, Sen. John Kissel rose and began a lengthy set of remarks with two anecdotes. First, the Enfield Republican spoke movingly of hugging his youngest son, Tristan, on the day of the Newtown massacre, one day before...Tags: Punishment, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Laws, Danbury, West Hartford
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