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28 Mar 2006, 8:38 am
[JURIST] Mexican President Vicente Fox [official website, in Spanish] has lauded Monday's approval by the US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] of an immigration bill that would provide temporary work visas to undocumented workers in the US and that rejected a House proposal to make the "unlawful presence" of undocumented aliens a felony rather than a misdemeanor. [read post]
19 Jul 2005, 1:01 pm
[JURIST] US Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and John Cornyn (R-TX) [official websites] introduced a bill [press release] Tuesday which could force millions of illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States to leave. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 6:14 pm
Senate passed HR 4573, urging the secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and other multilateral development institutions to use the voice, vote,... [read post]
26 Sep 2019, 11:28 am
The US Senate voted 54-41 Wednesday to terminate the Presidental declaration of national emergency related to the US-Mexico border. [read post]
21 Dec 2005, 12:47 pm
[JURIST] AP is reporting that the US Senate has rejected a proposal to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) [official website] to oil drilling. [read post]
12 Jul 2005, 2:42 am
[JURIST] In his first in-person consultation with Senator leaders on his upcoming nomination of a replacement for retiring US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor [JURIST report], President Bush met Tuesday with Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA), ranking Judiciary Democrat Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV [read post]
27 Jun 2013, 4:53 pm
Convince us. [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 1:33 pm
The article also quotes Committee chairman Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) confirming what many of us have been saying: that CISPA 2.0's privacy protections "were insufficient." [read post]
25 Jun 2009, 6:19 am
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] began the impeachment trial process [press release] for Judge Samuel Kent [official profile] Wednesday for alleged "high crimes and misdemeanors" after accepting the articles of impeachment [text, PDF] from the US House of Representatives [official website]. [read post]
25 Dec 2005, 3:22 pm
[JURIST] Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Saturday that members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] intend to expand their probe into warrantless wiretaps [JURIST report] within the US after the weekend disclosure that the National Security Agency [official website] had obtained access to the nation's telephone and Internet lines to track terrorists, in greater volumes than [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 10:34 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] Thursday voted 15-2 to send a federal shield bill [S 2035 materials], which would protect reporters from being compelled to disclose confidential sources, to the full Senate for consideration. [read post]
20 Dec 2005, 10:20 am
[JURIST] US senators debated Monday evening the possibility of extending the USA Patriot Act [PDF text; JURIST news archive] only temporarily, from as little as three months to as long as four years, in response to President Bush's statement earlier in the day [JURIST report] urging the Senate to reauthorize the Patriot Act. [read post]
18 Jun 2009, 11:58 pm
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] unanimously passed a resolution [S Con Res 26 text, PDF] Thursday apologizing to African-Americans for slavery and racial segregation. [read post]
8 May 2005, 9:52 am
[JURIST] Senator Richard Lugar [official website], chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee [official website], said Sunday that he expects a party-line vote this week to approve the controversial nomination of John Bolton [official profile] as US ambassador to the United Nations [US Mission to the UN official website]. [read post]
10 Nov 2011, 8:21 am
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15 Feb 2005, 10:24 am
[JURIST] The US Senate late Tuesday afternoon approved the nomination of federal appeals judge Michael Chertoff as the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. [read post]
14 Mar 2018, 1:40 pm
“It is not about us as individuals,” Barbera said from the Senate rostrum after receiving the First Citizen Award. ... [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 3:50 am
Here is the abstract: This Essay discusses the recent Senate apology for slavery, which contained an unusual disclaimer prohibiting its use in any claim for monetary reparations. [read post]
23 Mar 2017, 6:03 am
Democrats used the hearing to criticize the Senate's failure to consider former president Barack Obama's nominee for the seat Merrick Garland [JURIST report]. [read post]
26 Jan 2021, 12:22 pm
Easing off a stalemate, the Senate moved forward Tuesday with a power-sharing agreement in the evenly-split chamber after Republican leader Mitch McConnell backed off his demand that Senate Democrats preserve the procedural tool known as the filibuster. [read post]
