Rubio, a man called the ‘crown prince of the Tea Party,’ has the stature in the GOP to win over enough Republicans in Congress to vote with Democrats and stop deportations of young people eligible for the DREAM Act.
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Could Gutierrez and Rubio work together to bring us a new DREAM Act? | Fox News - 3 views
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DREAM Act that will halt deportation of young, undocumented immigrants who are currently in school or serving in the military – but will not grant them citizenship.
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“Listen, I want nothing but success for Barack Obama. It is not easy for me to challenge him, but I feel I need to, to make this a better nation and I feel that that’s my first and foremost responsibility, number one,“ Gutierrez said. In the past, Gutierrez has criticized the president for not issuing an executive order to halt the deportation of minors who meet the DREAM Act criteria.
Student loans are a burden but it's the lack of jobs that hurts America more | Fox News - 0 views
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Congress should prevent the loan rate hike and pay for it by targeting the very root of this increase - a provision in the 2010 federal health care law that raids student aid to the tune of $9 billion in order to "pay for" other parts of ObamaCare. Since this problem is of President Obama's own making, we should clean up this latest ObamaCare mess by ending this slush fund and applying the savings to prevent the upcoming rate increase.
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New Hints at Looser Travel Rules Stir Hope in Cuba - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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promised reform of Cuba’s migration rules that, for half a century, have controlled who can leave the island, who can return and how long they can be gone.
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Any loosening of controls would be a step toward eliminating one of the most deeply resented restrictions on Cubans’ liberty and a milestone on President Raúl Castro’s gradual march toward economic and social reform. Cuban officials have hinted for years that a change might be coming, but the bureaucratic system limiting travel remains in place.
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the reform could spur economic migration and deepen ties between the island and the two million members of the diaspora, whose money and business experience may be vital to the government’s plans to drastically enlarge the private sector.
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GOP Senators Block Democrats' Student Loan Bill : The Two-Way : NPR - 0 views
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Senate Republicans gave a thumbs down to a Democratic plan that would have frozen interest rates for 7.4 million students taking out new federally subsidized Stafford loans.
Report Sees Economic Drag in Immigration Policies - Metropolis - WSJ - 2 views
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The report, co-written with the Partnership for a New American Economy, describes current immigration policies as “irrational and undirected,”
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U.S. faces a stalled economy and shortage of workers in growing innovation industries like science, technology and engineering without changes. Immigration roadblocks in the U.S. “send entrepreneurs to other countries, who are quick to welcome them,” the report said.
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”We are not looking at the benefits of immigration. We have walked away from what made this country great.”
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Mayor Micheal Bloomberg of New York
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25 x '25: Creating a new renewable energy standard for Michigan : NPR - 0 views
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Republican consulting firm.
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allows us to use manufacturing capacity in Michigan rather than bringing in $1.6 billion worth of coal from West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
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keeps dollars in our state and it keeps us at the cutting age of new types of manufacturing technology,”
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Pennsylvania gets high marks for rein on drilling for gas - Washington Times - 0 views
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From 2008 to 2010, the percentage of violations in relation to the number of wells drilled dropped from 58.2 percent to 30.5 percent
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Nearly two-thirds of the violations were deemed “administrative” in nature and had no physical impact
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Industry leaders are mounting a pushback against those efforts, arguing that states such as Pennsylvania, New York and others are far better equipped to craft guidelines specific to their geographic and environmental situations, rather than rely on a one-size-fits-all standard from Washington, D.C.
Alabama governor signs revised anti-illegal immigration law - CNN - 0 views
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Alabama's governor on Friday signed legislation that he said will "simplify and clarify" the state's controversial anti-illegal immigration law, considered one of the country's toughest.
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The new bill, HB 658, addresses some of its unintended consequences, including clarifying the types of documents that can serve as a form of official identification. But it does not address parts of the law that are at issue in federal courts.
More class warfare to come in presidential campaign - chicagotribune.com - 1 views
Why Obama's gay marriage move weighs against his reelection | Fox News - 1 views
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