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Rubio seeks to boost border language in new bill
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio says a new immigration bill he helped write needs stronger border security provisions or it will fail in the House and may even have trouble getting through the Senate. Rubio, who is the chief emissary to conservatives on the contentious legislation, said in a radio ...
Obama, Mexican president talk economy, security
Acknowledging uncertainty ahead, President Barack Obama said Thursday the U.S. will cooperate with Mexico in fighting drug-trafficking and organized crime in any way Mexico's government deems appropriate. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto emphasized that the security relationship must be expanded to focus on trade and commerce. Appearing alongside Pena Nieto ...
2016: Rare same-state pairings in the early stages
The early stages of the 2016 presidential race feature an unusual cluster of high-powered potential candidates hailing from the same states, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Rep. Paul Ryan among them. Walker gained Republican Party cult-figure status when he beat back a labor union attempt to oust him from office ...
Immigration debate creates dilemma for Obama
President Barack Obama's prospects for a sweeping legislative victory this year now rest almost solely on the immigration overhaul working its way through Congress. But immigration's tricky politics have created a dilemma for a president fighting for an issue he considers central to his legacy. If Obama is too closely ...
House passes Fla. Health Choices program
The Florida House has agreed to give $900,000 to an online marketplace where individuals and businesses can shop for health insurance. The House passed the bill Tuesday, despite questions from Democrats who said it was ridiculous to give more money to the struggling Florida Health Choices program. The program has ...
Local setbacks vex GOP governors eyeing 2016 race
Republican governors are often seen as innovative policymakers and potential presidential candidates, but a few are struggling with political or ethical problems that might crimp their ambitions. Two governors eyeing possible White House bids — Bob McDonnell of Virginia and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana — suddenly find themselves fending off ...
Advocates criticize Senate immigration bill
A sweeping immigration bill in the Senate ran into criticism Tuesday from advocates who complained it puts up undue barriers to citizenship for millions here illegally. Officials from several immigrant rights' groups and the Catholic church held a conference call to highlight their concerns about the bill, including a cutoff ...
Soft-spoken Virginian holds sway on immigration
Depending on whom you ask, Rep. Bob Goodlatte is either trying to stand in the way of landmark immigration legislation or he illustrates the new face of the GOP trying to find common ground on a contentious issue. Either way, the soft-spoken collector of elephant figurines and signed baseballs is ...
Obama jokes about aging during 2nd term
President Barack Obama joked Saturday that the years are catching up to him and he's not "the strapping young Muslim socialist" he used to be. Obama poked fun at himself as well as some of his political adversaries during the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner attended by politicians, members ...
Some say immigration bill is bad deal for the GOP
Some feisty Republicans are challenging a claim widely held among GOP leaders that the party must support more liberal immigration laws if it's to be more competitive in presidential elections. These doubters say the Republican establishment has the political calculation backward. Immigration "reform," they say, will mean millions of new ...
The Bush and Clinton families, on stage in Texas
Together on stage, the two families who have dominated American politics for the past two decades joined Thursday to pay tribute to the opening of George W. Bush's presidential center. Whether the families will have another act — in 2016 — was the unspoken subtext. President George H.W. Bush, frail ...
Lawmakers ask if intel blocked before Boston bombs
Lawmakers are again asking whether a failure to share intelligence contributed to a deadly attack on U.S. soil, after senior officials briefed them Tuesday on the investigation into last week's bombings at the Boston Marathon. None of the lawmakers are saying — yet— that better sharing could have stopped the ...
As Boston buries its dead, more evidence gathered
The Boston area held funerals for two more of its dead Tuesday — including an 8-year-old boy — as evidence mounted that the older Tsarnaev brother had embraced a radical, anti-American strain of Islam and was the driving force behind the Boston Marathon bombing. Younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's condition was ...
From outsiders to bombing suspects in Boston
Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sought to embrace American lives after emigrating from Russia — joining a boxing club, winning a scholarship and even seeking U.S. citizenship. But their uncle last week angrily called them "losers" who failed to feel settled even after a decade of living in the United States. ...
Excerpts of editorials from Illinois newspapers
April 17, 2013 Edwardsville Intelligencer Rational people can't understand it You've tried to make sense of it, but it just isn't possible. But you're a rational, responsible person and random acts of violence like that one that rocked the Boston Marathon on Monday don't make sense to you. They can't ...
Sen. Rubio unveils major immigration reform bill
Senator Marco Rubio joined seven other senators from a bi-partisan group to introduce the "Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013." READ A ONE PAGE SUMMARY READ THE FULL BILL READ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BILL Rubio's team says its introduction marks a "first step toward ...
Sen. Rubio: The real problem is violence
Senator Marco Rubio joined Sean Hannity on Thursday's edition of the Sean Hannity Show to share his thoughts on President Obama's gun control proposals from this week. "The President is missing the opportunity here to talk about the real problem in America," Rubio said. "And the real problem is not ...
Tebow, Rubio on Time's most influential list
Floridians Marco Rubio and Tim Tebow highlight the list of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world for 2012. Time describes the people on its list as those who inspire, entertain and challenge us. Former Governor Jeb Bush writes the profile for Rubio, saying Rubio represents the best ...
Super committee fails, blame game begins
The super committee’s failure has a lot of lawmakers both in Washington and here locally engaging in the blame game. (WOKV's Jamie Dupree - Super Committee - What's next?) The emotions after the announcement that talks had ended ranged from anger to disappoint. We got reaction from the Florida Republican ...
Rubio, Senators fight proposed Internet regulations
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That was the message Florida Senator Marco Rubio offered on the Senate floor Wednesday as he expressed his concern with a Federal Communications Commission proposal that would regulate how mobile and fixed broadband Internet providers. "To suggest that some type of regulation is ...
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