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Americans Want Immigrants with Skills, Just Not High-Tech SkillsImmigration-reform proponents are already navigating conflicting interests in the Senate. Now they must also contend with conflicting messages from the American people. A sizable plurality of Americans want the U.S. immigration system to favor immigrants with needed job skills, but they do not support increasing the number of guest workers for some of the industries most hungry for new employees, according to the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll. Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 10:00pm |
Immigration and the WorkforcePosted: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 10:00pm |
National Journal Congressional Connection Poll Topline Results June 17, 2013National Journal Congressional Connection Poll, a national poll that tracks the public's priorities for Congress and Washington -- and its opinions on the policies that Congress is debating. Below are the topline results from the week's Congressional Connection poll. Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 10:00pm |
Government Privatization Paves the Way for Crony CorruptionBooz Allen Hamilton, Edward Snowden’s former employer, is a cash cow earning billions from its intelligence work for the U.S. government. Snowden is among thousands of people who used to work for the government who went on to earn far more doing the same things for legions of private contractors. Almost 500,000 private employees held top-secret clearances in 2012, giving them access to the most sensitive secrets of the United States, with much of the clearance process itself done by … the self-same private contractors. Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 9:30pm |
Senate on Verge of Border-Security DealSenate negotiators are on the verge of a breakthrough on border security that is designed to bring a handful of Republicans on board for final passage of a sweeping immigration bill, lawmakers involved in the talks said Wednesday. The deal has grown out of an effort by Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and John Hoeven, R-N.D, to bolster the border-security benchmarks already in the bill. Many Republicans think those provisions are weak, but the bill's GOP sponsors can only go so far in pushing tougher benchmarks without risking protest from Democrats. Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 6:50pm |
New Probe Sought for 1996 Airline Disaster Off the Coast of Long Island, N.Y.The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday it is being petitioned to reactivate its investigation into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, which disintegrated shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, killing all 230 on board. The request for a new probe came from former investigators who now claim they were silenced about the real cause of the disaster and that the official findings released by the government were "falsified." Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 5:41pm |
Bernanke May Have Just Made the Jobs Report More of a CircusOne of the government's most-hyped economic reports may start getting even more scrutiny thanks to Ben Bernanke. That's because the Federal Reserve chairman made some news on Wednesday: For the first time, he gave a target unemployment rate for when the Fed might fully wind down its monthly multibillion asset purchases. Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 5:12pm |
Dear Politicians: We Don't Always Want to Read Your Boring BooksJust about a week ago, New York City mayoral candidate Christine Quinn released her memoir. If you didn't know this, you're not alone. As of this writing, the book has no reviews on Amazon. It doesn't actually have any ratings on Amazon. So far, it looks like the City Council speaker isn't going to be joining the ranks of politicians who have made millions from their books. Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 4:01pm |
Who Should Decide if the Border is Secure?Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 3:44pm |
Obama Offers Few Nuclear Policy Surprises in BerlinWASHINGTON -- President Obama on Wednesday delivered in Berlin a modified replay of his 2009 Prague speech on the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, featuring a similar brand of soaring oratory about high ideals that his European fans and critics alike have come to expect. It is four years later, though, and Europeans, like their U.S. counterparts, have had plenty of time to glimpse the human foibles and political battles that have come to dog virtually every American commander in chief. Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 3:42pm |
