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January 09, 2007 05:50 PM EST -- I want to hear another of those remarkable speeches in which President has set forth an ambitious vision of the post 9/11 world. I want President Bush to remind us how we felt on September 11, 2001, as . . . more
January 11, 2007 12:18 AM EST -- Tonight President Bush announced our revised strategy for achieving victory in Iraq. It wasn't a great speech, but it was adequate. How can you give a great speech when everyone in the world knows . . . more
May 24, 2006 08:39 AM EDT -- The Senate voted 58-40 to increase penalties for hiring undocumented workers. Fines would be doubled to $20,000 and repeat offenders could be sentenced to prison for up to three years. Increasing penalties . . . more
January 10, 2007 01:29 PM EST -- By now you are probably aware that Speaker Pelosi's current position that we should not increase the number of American troops in Iraq is quite inconsistent with her criticism of President Bush in . . . more
February 01, 2007 10:42 AM EST -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants "routine access to military aircraft for domestic flights, such as trips back to her San Francisco district:" The sources, who include those in Congress and in the . . . more
May 18, 2006 12:10 AM EDT -- Wisconsin Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner accused President Bush of abandoning the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act the House passed in December: "He basically . . . more
May 25, 2006 09:59 PM EDT -- The Senate passed the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 by a 62-36 vote. The Senate bill creates a new guest-worker program and, like the failed 1986 Immigration Reform Act, provides a means . . . more
January 08, 2007 10:12 AM EST -- President Bush has been hard at work reorganizing his security team and seeking advice and ideas from a wide variety of sources on how to achieve victory in Iraq. As the President puts it: I want to . . . more
May 02, 2007 12:39 PM EDT -- Just as he had promised to do for three months, when the Democrats finished delaying the war supplemental bill to make their partisan political points and sent the bill containing a withdrawal date, President . . . more
April 18, 2006 08:03 AM EDT -- The Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act was signed into law today by Governor Sonny Perdue. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution the new law targets illegal immigrants and those . . . more
May 17, 2006 12:56 PM EDT -- The Washington Times reports President Bush said yesterday that he would not accept any bill from Congress that does not include a guest-worker program and provisions to grant citizenship to at least some . . . more
May 25, 2006 08:47 PM EDT -- The House, for the fifth time, approves drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The vote was 225-201 to direct the Interior Department to open oil leases on 2,000 of the 1.5 million acres of ANWR's . . . more
April 16, 2006 09:45 AM EDT -- The recent rallies supporting rights for illegal aliens brought la reconquista, the movement calling for Mexico to "reconquer" America's Southwest, to the attention of the main stream media. . . . more
May 16, 2006 03:26 PM EDT -- President Bush's support for an immigration reform compromise is seen as helping passage in U.S. Senate. Monday night, the president sought to assure conservatives and announced he would deploy up . . . more
April 17, 2006 09:45 AM EDT -- The Chicago Tribune's Frank James reports  that the great Senate immigration reform is full of smoke and mirrors. According to James, the stillborn reform proposal contains provisions that immigration . . . more
May 17, 2006 04:28 PM EDT -- The U.S. Senate voted to bar criminal illegal immigrants from becoming legal residents or U.S. citizens: The 99-0 vote on the amendment blocking felons and people with three misdemeanor convictions was . . . more
April 15, 2006 01:36 PM EDT -- The Associated Press reports the Democrats are blaming President Bush and the Republicans on Saturday for blocking immigration reform legislation. A little over a week ago the Senate appeared to have . . . more
May 21, 2006 02:59 PM EDT -- In a devastating essay published in the Washington Post, Richard A. Viguerie, who played an important role in putting together the winning coalitions behind Ronald Reagan in 1980 and George W. Bush in . . . more
April 15, 2006 08:52 AM EDT -- Millionaire Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont, more than doubled all the contributions to his campaign to unseat Connecticut Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman. Lamont contributed $371,500 of the $712,611 . . . more
May 19, 2006 06:11 PM EDT -- Wisconsin Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner accused President Bush of abandoning the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act the House passed in December: "He basically . . . more
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