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U.S. Senate passes flood-protection bill vital to Cedar Rapids
The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IowaThis city has been working for the five years since its $7-billion flood disaster to convince Congress to provide help for the city to build a flood protection system. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate, on a vote of 83-14, approved the Water Resources...Tags: Bodies of Water, U.S. Congress, Politics, Bruce Braley, Floods
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In uproar over U.S. seizure of AP records, focus turns to Holder
ReutersBy Tabassum Zakaria and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was likely to face a storm of questions on Tuesday over the Justice Department's controversial decision to seize telephone records of the Associated...Tags: Entertainment Events, National Security, U.S. Department of Justice, News Media, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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Associated Press says U.S. government seized journalists' phone records
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Associated Press said on Monday the U.S. government secretly seized telephone records of AP offices and reporters for a two-month period in 2012, describing the acts as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into news-gathering...Tags: Entertainment Events, National Security, Justice System, U.S. Department of Justice, News Media
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Key U.S. senator to fight for tracking system in immigration law
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, who is considered crucial to the passage of an immigration law overhaul, on Tuesday vowed to fight for a biometric system that would track foreigners entering and exiting the country after a...Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Politics, Career and Workplace, AFL-CIO, Republican Party
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Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...
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Analyst who said immigrants have lower IQ resigns from U.S. conservative group
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - A Heritage Foundation policy analyst who co-authored a study slamming the U.S. Senate immigration bill, is resigning, the conservative group said on Friday, after revelations he once wrote that Hispanic immigrants had a...Tags: Heritage Foundation, Minority Groups, Immigration, Politics, Illegal Immigrants
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Gay benefits: Immigration bill deal-breaker?
NewsdayOne of the biggest potential deal-breakers for the massive immigration bill as a Senate committee begins working on it Thursday is a Democratic proposal to extend immigration benefits to gay and lesbian couples, experts and lawmakers said Wednesday....Tags: POLITICO LLC, National Security, Minority Groups, Immigration, Crime, Law and Justice
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Gay rights amendment offered to U.S. immigration bill in Congress
ReutersBy Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy on Tuesday introduced a gay rights amendment to the Senate's immigration bill, prompting one of the measure's Republican sponsors...Tags: U.S. Congress, Justice System, Politics, Illegal Immigrants, Career and Workplace
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Gay rights amendment offered to US immigration bill in Congress
Reuters* Rubio warns gay rights proposal would 'kill' bill * Committee Republicans offer mountain of amendments (Adds details and context paragraph 11 onward) By Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee...Tags: U.S. Congress, National Security, Justice System, Politics, Illegal Immigrants
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WRAPUP 1-Battle over U.S. immigration bill starts in Congress
Reuters* Senate Judiciary debate gets under way on Thursday * Special interests to push controversial amendments * Supporters drive for lopsided Senate approval By Caren Bohan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress this week opens...Tags: POLITICO LLC, Heritage Foundation, U.S. Congress, Justice System, Fiscal Cliff
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Israel says strikes in Syria target arms for Hezbollah
JERUSALEM — With three airstrikes against Syria since January, Israel has inserted itself forcefully into the "Arab Spring's" most intractable conflict, heightening fears that Syria's civil war could spiral into a regional conflagration. The...
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Israeli airstrikes may have exposed Syrian flaw, U.S. officials say
WASHINGTON — Recent Israeli strikes inside Syria may have exposed weaknesses in the regime’s air defenses and could embolden the U.S. and its allies to take more steps to aid rebels fighting the regime there, said lawmakers on Sunday....
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