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added 2007 Wed Jun 13 19:34:31 by zaph22
"SENATOR Edward Kennedy has been the godfather of America's immigration policy since the mid 1960s. No other figure in American politics bears as much responsibility as he for the current pathetic state of U.S. immigration affairs."
added 2007 Wed Jun 13 2:31:42 by zaph22
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions stood up at Tuesday's lunch for Senate Republicans and baldly told President George W. Bush what was wrong with his immigration proposal: it would give amnesty to 12 million illegal immigrations, it would reduce illegal immigration by only 13%, and it doesn't go far enough to enforce border security.
added 2007 Mon Jun 11 16:44:25 by zaph22
The White House and Republican allies were optimistic that the immigration overhaul bill will come back to life and pass the Senate, as they hinted they will pitch the bill as necessary to securing the border and enforcing the law, appealing to conservatives wary that illegal immigrants will continue to stream into the country.
added 2007 Sun Jun 10 15:01:43 by zaph22
By now everyone has heard of the proposed new Immigration Bill, the result of months of secret back-room negotiations between Democrats and Republicans. Rather than attack the bill, or calling names, I am going to do something different. I am going to look at a number of PAST immigration bills, and compare the situation today.
added 2007 Sat May 19 5:47:07 by zaph22
Given that Democratic Leader Harry Reid has threatened to filibuster any immigration bill that does not include amnesty for illegal aliens, someone should ask him a basic question: What happens to state budgets when 12 million illegal aliens become eligible for Medicaid and food stamps? Right now, illegal aliens are largely ineligible for a whole p
added 2007 Fri May 18 16:47:16 by zaph22
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.,cautioned, "I don't know if the immigration legislation is going to bear fruit and we're going to be able to pass it." The plan brought vehement criticism from both sides of the immigration issue, including liberals who called it unfair and unworkable and conservatives who branded it an overly per
added 2007 Fri May 18 15:23:56 by MyWayOnNow
Congress should coalesce behind sweeping new compromise immigration legislation despite steep political obstacles because opportunities to confront the problem head-on are rare, Sen. Edward Kennedy said Friday
added 2007 Thu May 17 6:16:14 by TechnologyExpert
In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
added 2007 Mon Apr 30 1:59:54 by elll
Jamie Kennedy is sick of hecklers and fights back with the help of many other famous faces. Warning, this trailer is rated "R" (language)

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added 2007 Tue Apr 17 10:54:35 by gatitabonitasen
The chairman of the Senate education committee urged the Bush administration yesterday to block student loan companies from accessing a national database that holds confidential information on tens of millions of students. The request by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), came after The Washington Post reported on inappropriate searches of the da
added 2007 Sun Mar 18 2:18:29 by kam80
The world changed forever for a generation after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, followed a few years later by the murders of his brother Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. The strange prologue to these turning points is the death of Marilyn Monroe.
added 2007 Sat Mar 17 22:16:23 by gatitabonitasen
For four decades there have been rumours that Marilyn Monroe's death was not a simple suicide. Now a Los Angeles-based Australian writer and director, Philippe Mora, has uncovered an FBI document that throws up a chilling new scenario. BOBBY KENNEDY'S affair with the screen idol Marilyn Monroe has been documented, but a secret FBI file suggests
added 2007 Tue Feb 27 22:23:16 by DavidHalko
WASHINGTON -- As record oil prices turn attention to the need for renewable fuels, momentum is building in Congress to buck Senator Edward M. Kennedy's bid to block the proposed Cape Cod wind energy project, potentially reviving efforts to construct the windmill farm in Nantucket Sound.
added 2007 Fri Feb 23 23:53:28 by okitech
A trove of Kennedy family paraphernalia, including a letter in which former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy appears to counsel her sister-in-law about marital troubles, will be auctioned off in Connecticut this weekend
added 2007 Fri Feb 9 19:35:05 by bhartzer
Ken Kennedy, a Rice University computer scientist whose software design work paved the way for the broad scientific and engineering use of modern supercomputers, died Wednesday in Houston. He was 61.
added 2007 Sun Feb 4 19:31:44 by STONERS
In the United States, coal and oil extraction is plowing down entire mountain ranges, burying thousands of miles of rivers and streams and polluting our waterways, wetlands and aquifers.
added 2007 Thu Jan 25 3:09:43 by Karina
When the director of the documentary 'Ghosts of Abu Ghraib' asked the soldiers themselves why they had participated in the detainee abuse, they all gave her the same answer: "I did it because I was told to do it."
added 2007 Tue Jan 23 12:42:39 by Spadecaller
THE RESOLUTIONS against President Bush's Iraq war policies offered by Senator Edward Kennedy and colleagues of both parties are expressions of the democratic will of the country. Symbolic as their bills and resolutions may be, Hagel, Kennedy, and their colleagues are using their powers as legislators.
added 2007 Sun Jan 21 1:23:05 by catstevens
When documentary film maker Rory Kennedy wanted to make a movie about why ordinary people commit extraordinary acts of evil, the images of U.S. soldiers torturing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison kept coming back to haunt her.
added 2007 Tue Jan 16 12:57:45 by Spadecaller
SENATOR Edward M. Kennedy's proposal last week to withhold funds for escalating the war in Iraq is a bold effort to stop what many Americans perceive as a lost cause.
added 2007 Tue Jan 9 21:40:00 by STONERS
With the new Democratic-led Congress flexing its muscles in opposition to the unpopular Iraq war, a leading Democratic senator proposed on Tuesday to block President Bush from sending more troops to Iraq unless Congress specifically approves