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Proposed census amendment creates odd bedfellows

By | 10.19.09 | 12:21 pm

Once again this year, a group of evangelical Latinos ostensibly working for immigration reform find themselves in lock-step with the anti-immigration movement.

Last week, several Republican congressmen—concerned about the growing influence of illegal immigrants—introduced a controversial amendment requiring a…

Mobbed Joe the Plumber reflective at Take Back America Conference

By | 09.28.09 | 11:04 am

Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher was a late addition to the speaker lineup at the How to Take Back America Conference last weekend in St. Louis, but I don’t know what the attendees would have done without him. After his…

Salazar rips ‘bitter obstructionism’ as GOP senators reject Interior deputy

By | 05.13.09 | 12:15 pm

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar blasted Republican senators Wednesday for voting down his pick for deputy secretary.

The Senate’s 57-39 vote fell three votes shy of the 60 votes required to thwart a threatened Republican filibuster against the nomination of David Hayes, an environmental lawyer who served as Interior’s No. 2 for the last three years of the Clinton administration. It was the first time the Senate has blocked an Obama nomination.