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WASHINGTON, D.C.: The House continues to tinker with a controversial immigration bill as it nears an expected floor vote Friday. Representatives added an amendment that would permit state and local law enforcement agencies to detain illegal aliens for the Immigration and Naturalization Service and retained a pilot program that lets employers call an INS hotline to check the employability of workers. However, the key addition was an amendment sponsored by Representative Elton Gallegly, which would allow states to bar the children of illegal immigrants from public schools. Gallegly's amendment passed 257-163, but opponents may have the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amendment to Immigration Bill Challenges Court | 3/21/1996 | See Source »

Liberals, on the other hand, believe conservatives are dangerous romantics. Liberals have been discouraged by the failure of many of their do-good programs, and they don't believe any of the conservative solutions will work either. Liberals want to keep things as they are, and just tinker at the margins--maybe. And after episodes like Susan Smith's drowning of her children, and the ripping of a child from his murdered mother's womb in Chicago, they are ready to believe some souls are inherently evil and beyond redemption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT GINGRICH: GOOD NEWT, BAD NEWT | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...easy to tinker with the work of the nation's founders. For the third time this year, Congress failed to pass a Republican-sponsored amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Senate fell three votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to approve an amendment banning physical desecration of the U.S. flag, which opponents argued was antithetical to free speech. Proposed amendments requiring a balanced budget and congressional term limits have also failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: DECEMBER 10-16 | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, CRITIC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1995 | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...company's warehouse, the drivers asking what was needed and offering plastic bags and boxes full of everything from infant formula to flashlight batteries, food and paper goods. A sporting- goods store in Stillwater shipped every single one of its kneepads to the rescuers scouring the wreckage. Nearby Tinker Air Force Base sent a truckload of helmet lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: CITY THE BLOOD OF INNOCENTS | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

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