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Seven activists have been holding a sit-in inside Sen. Michael Bennet's Denver office Wednesday, demanding his immediate help on passing legislation to help immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children. The protesters were demanding that the Democrat set up a meeting with other senators to discuss the program that helps such immigrants - Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals - issue a public statement about the meeting and set up a separate meeting with constituents in Colorado.
Tyler recently shar... - Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took to the floor Wednesday morning to address the emerging bipartisan federal spending deal in the Senate, pointing to several "Democrat priorities" included in the deal but drawing the line over the lack of a solution for so-called Dreamers whose status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy is in jeopardy after March 5. Pelosi announced she and a "large number" of House Democrats will oppose any deal unless Speaker Paul Ryan commits to a future open immigration debate, complaining House Democrats are second-class members of Congress without a commitment from Ryan.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took to the House floor and spoke for more than five hours to oppose the spending deal to lift spending caps and avert a government shutdown -- because the plan does not address immigration issues. The deal, which was proposed by Senate leaders on Wednesday, will require Democratic support to pass the House, so the House Democratic leader's comments make the plan's future unclear.
Government shutdowns - evidence of how polarized Democrats and Republicans in office have become - are distressingly frequent news. The shutdown produced by U.S. Senate Democrats early in 2018 makes a first for them.
The U.S. Senate will be the focus Wednesday in the effort to fund the federal government and avoid another possible shutdown as Republicans and Democrats stand apart on how long to extend domestic spending relative to national defense. With a midnight Thursday deadline pending, the House of Representatives voted mostly along party lines Tuesday night to approve a spending bill that would fund the Pentagon for the remainder of the current fiscal year but fund domestic programs for just six weeks.
Candidate Trump's alleged lack of conservative bona fides became a raison d'tre for the #NeverTrump faction of the Republican party. Yet President Trump's actions in office bear all the hallmarks of a conservative presidency.
As Washington barrels toward another immigration showdown, the fate of nearly two million people brought to the US illegally as kids, who face the loss of work and study privileges and even deportation again rests on the President. The repeated tussles over the fate of people protected by the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program have shown that only the President has the weight and political capital to ultimately frame a deal on treacherous political ground and to sell it to grassroots GOP voters.
Dawn breaks over the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, as House GOP leaders are proposing to keep the government open for another six weeks by adding a year's worth of Pentagon funding to a stopgap spending b... Pres. Donald Trump called for a shutdown of the government if Congress can't work out immigration reform.
Congress is risking another federal government shutdown as House Republicans on Tuesday approved a temporary bill loaded with extra military spending that will almost certainly face a filibuster from Democrats - and some Republicans - in the Senate. Neither party appears to want a repeat of last month's three-day shutdown, but President Donald Trump seemed game for closing the government again if he could blame it on Democrats.
San Francisco may end up being the first city in the United States to open injection sites where drug addicts can shoot up safely. Several other major cities are considering proposals.
Legislation to help young "Dreamer" immigrants struggled to gain footing in the U.S. Congress on Monday, as lawmakers prepared to hold a Tuesday vote on a short-term government funding measure to avoid a rerun of January's three-day partial shutdown. Republicans in the House of Representatives were told at a Monday night meeting that the stop-gap measure would extend funding through March 23, along with a year of defense funding and two years of funding for community health centers, lawmakers said.
Comedy and Massachusetts politics may seem like entirely different worlds, but comedian Jimmy Tingle doesn't see it that way. The Boston comedian, who is breaking into the political scene with a Democratic run for lieutenant governor, says the large crowds, meet and greets, and conversations about various social issues translate well from comedy to politics.
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Dreamers were in Albany on Monday to witness the passage of the New York State DREAM Act in the state Assembly. It was the seventh time the bill has passed in the Democratic-controlled House, but it has yet to get through the state Senate, where it faces significant opposition again this year.
Indiana Republican Rep. Todd Rokita called for increased vigilance in protecting U.S. borders and enforcing immigration laws, in light of news that an illegal immigrant suspected of drunk driving killed two Hoosiers - including Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson - on Sunday.
A bipartisan immigration proposal has surfaced in the Senate, only to be quickly knocked down by President Donald Trump via Twitter on Monday. Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Chris Coons planned to propose legislation Monday that would shield from deportation immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally as children, known as "Dreamers" helped by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
U.S. Senators John McCain and Chris Coons will introduce legislation today to address two pressing issues , providing a path to resolve these important immigration issues and allowing Congress to devote full attention to finalizing a budget deal that fully funds the military. The legislation is a Senate companion bill to the Uniting and Securing America Act , bipartisan legislation introduced by Representatives Will Hurd and Pete Aguilar to protect Dreamers from deportation and provide a pathway to citizenship while implementing new border security measures.
Are the state institutions joining politicians to thwart the will of the people on both sides of the Atlantic, asks Brian Monteith. Only a year ago Theresa May and Donald Trump had set out their intentions about how "Brexit means Brexit" and how to "Make America great again".
An unexpected announcement of an agreement between top Democrats and President Trump, a quick reversal from the White House, a government shutdown, and a meeting where Trump reportedly described particular countries using vulgar language. All of these major news stories have centered around immigration - and more specifically, Washington's inability to agree on what to do as President Trump's deadline to end the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Child Arrivals policy fast approaches.
In this Sept. 6, 2017 file photo, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., accompanied by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and others members of the House and Senate Democrats, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.