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Online Gaming in Crisis Over U.S. Ban
Online gambling firms faced their biggest-ever crisis on Monday after U.S. Congress passed legislation to end Internet gaming there, threatening jobs and wiping 3.5 billion pounds ($6.5 billion) off company values.
Oct 2, 2006
Topic: Family, Addictions, Gambling, Citizenship, Legislation, National
Senate Passes Bill on Building Border Fence
The Senate on Friday approved the building of 700 miles of fence along the nation’s southwestern border, fulfilling a demand by conservative Republicans to take steps to slow the flow of illegal immigrants before exploring broader changes to immigration law.
Oct 2, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, National
Senate panel delays action on most judicial nominees
The effort to confirm President Bush’s judicial nominees made little progress Sept. 21. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted out only one of six federal appeals court selections and four of 10 district court choices on the agenda.
Sep 22, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, National
G.O.P. in Senate Narrows Immigration Focus to 700-Mile Fence
Senate Republicans formally put aside a broad immigration overhaul sought by President Bush on Wednesday and decided instead to press ahead with narrower bills to require building 700 miles of fence on the southwestern border.
Sep 21, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Immigration, Legislation, National
Va. governor opposes marriage amendment, A.G. backs it
In what conservatives are calling a position reversal, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Sept. 14 he would campaign against a proposed constitutional marriage amendment on the November ballot — bucking a trend that has seen the lieutenant governor, attorney general and members from both parties in the legislature support it.
Sep 18, 2006
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Legislation
House Republicans Will Push for 700 Miles of Fencing on Mexico Border
House Republicans announced Wednesday that they would move swiftly to pass legislation requiring the Bush administration to build 700 miles of fencing along the Mexican border to help stem the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs into the United States.
Sep 14, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, National, Social Issues
Immigration Movement Struggles to Regain Momentum Built in Spring Marches
For a moment, it sounded like one of the spirited crowds from this past spring. There, at the foot of the Capitol, flag-waving immigrants chanted and cheered and warned lawmakers in Congress to take notice. But this time, only a few thousand people protested, not the hundreds of thousands that organizers had expected at the rally here on Thursday.
Sep 11, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Immigration, Legislation, National, Social Issues
To Hold Senate, G.O.P. Bolsters Its Most Liberal
With a barrage of television advertisements and the mobilization of its get-out-the-vote machine, the national Republican Party has lined up in Rhode Island to beat back a conservative primary challenge to the most liberal Republican in the Senate, Lincoln Chafee. The outcome on Tuesday could help determine whether Democrats have a shot at taking back the Senate.
Sep 11, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, National
Sounding retreat
Urban legend has it that populations of wild rodents known as lemmings periodically commit mass suicide by throwing themselves off cliffs. In fact, these critters do no such thing. It remains to be seen, however, whether American voters will this fall do the functional equivalent of the lemming leap: electing politicians who seductively promise retreat from a strategy of forward defense, thus imperiling large numbers of our countrymen abroad and possibly at home.
Sep 5, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, National
G.O.P. Sets Aside Work on Immigration
As they prepare for a critical pre-election legislative stretch, Congressional Republican leaders have all but abandoned a broad overhaul of immigration laws and instead will concentrate on national security issues they believe play to their political strength.
Sep 5, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Immigration, Legislation, National