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They do so once again with their ambitious amnesty program. This provision, already passed by the Senate, grants permanent resident status to illegal immigrants who have been in the U.S. since 1977 or earlier. It grants those who have been here since 1980 temporary resident status. Some liberal-minded supporters...
It is unlikely illegal immigrants would even come forward to change their status, and if they were to do so they would be overwhelmed with a bureaucratic barrage of inquiries, demands for proof, and new definitions. For instance, only those who could prove they have "resided continuously" in this country...
The intelligence committees of Congress were informed, and assented, but from the first, members of the House Intelligence Committee worried lest the contra campaign cause a widening war in Central America that could eventually involve the U.S. directly. They wrote into law a provision that no American money could be...
One of the issues the college has already addressed, according to Clark, is academic advising for athletes. He said that the college's previous provision of one part-time advisor for 200 to 300 athletes was "useless."
If Congress cut down drastically on the number of deductions allowed, it could raise revenue and simultaneously lower tax rates. One of the most sweeping strategies of this kind is the so-called flat-tax proposal put before Congress last year by Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini of Arizona. Devised by...