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In a vote of 39-60, the Senate on Thursday rejected an immigration reform proposal by Sen. Chuck Grassley which was based on President Donald Trump's immigration reform framework. The measure was one of four that was rejected by the Senate, including two bipartisan bills - one by Sens. John McCain and Chris Coons and another by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sens. Mike Rounds , and Susan Collins that were criticized by the Department of Homeland Security.
Vox has a useful run-down of the latest so-called compromise in the Senate that deserves to fail. Among the provisions: Tells ICE not to focus on unauthorized immigrants living in the US without criminal records.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, walks through a basement passageway at the Capitol amid debates in the Senate on immigration, in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. President Donald Trump is thanking Grassley for introducing legislation similar to the immigration framework pushed by the White House.
The Pentagon's Defense Logistics Agency can't account for hundreds of millions of dollars in spending, according to an internal audit conducted by Ernst & Young. The DLA is responsible for managing the American military's supply chain and is thus one of the largest Defense Department agencies.
Immigration expert Mark Krikorian told Newsmax TV he has concerns about a Senate immigration bill that has President Donald Trump's backing because it has too many concessions to appease Democrats.
Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Johnny Isakson of Georgia quietly endorsed Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley's, R-Iowa, White House-aligned immigration amendment late Wednesday. Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., one of the co-sponsors of the Grassley amendment, announced on PBS Newshour that his Georgia colleague and another conservative lawmaker would vote in support of a proposal that is in line with President Trump's list of immigration policy agenda items in return for giving a pathway to citizenship for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and 1 million other illegal immigrants.
"I am asking all senators, in both parties, to support the Grassley bill and to oppose any legislation that fails to fulfill these four pillars - that includes opposing any short-term 'Band-Aid' approach," Trump said in a statement. The president was referring to the four pillars contained in the White House's immigration framework: a "lasting solution" for young immigrants living illegally in the US, building a border wall, scrapping the diversity visa lottery and reforming family-based immigration.
The president thanked GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa for introducing legislation similar to the immigration framework pushed by the White House. The measure would offer a chance for citizenship for up to 1.8 million people who arrived in the U.S. as children and stayed illegally.
The leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee want to know how the agency overseeing the operation of federal courts is addressing sexual misconduct and harassment in the judiciary. Chairman Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, and top Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California wrote in a letter to the head of the federal courts' administrative agency that they were "deeply troubled" by news reports and allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate workplace behavior in the court system.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is surrounded by reporters after leaving the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., just before the announcement of an agreement in the Senate on a two-year, almost $400 billion budget deal that would provide Pentagon and domestic programs with huge spending increases, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. WASHINGTON - Two influential Republican senators have injected new information into the partisan dispute over the government's secret surveillance of a former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump, revealing more details about how the FBI and Justice Department used research compiled by a former British spy whose work was funded by Democrats.
On Tuesday, Senator Chuck Grassley released a "much-less redacted," version of this week's criminal referral - also known as memo 2.0 - of former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. Grassley releases a much-less redacted version of the Grassley/Graham criminal referral of Steele, approved by FBI today, which raises many similar issues about FBI reliance on Steele with the FISA court from the Nunes memo https://t.co/sWqURR9bFm Page three of the report reveals, "The FBI stated to the FISC that "based on [Steele's] previous history with the FBI, whereby [Steele] provided reliable information to the FBI, the FBI believe [Steele's] reporting to be credible."
Yes, some were a bit frustrated that we posted about The New York Times' late Thursday night story about President Donald Trump wanting to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller last June. The fact of the matter is it never happened, but it would certainly rehash the Russian collusion hysteria that has gripped the news media since Trump won the 2016 election.
Wednesday, while the media continued to focus on the fallout over the impotency of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in leading the Democrat's unnecessary government shutdown, Republican leaders in the Senate concentrated on the courts. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, moved forward with hearings on President Trump's judicial nominees - including consideration of the president's nominee to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Michael B. Brennan.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks with reporters following a vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. The Senate Judiciary Committee is finishing its investigation into the meeting between Russians and President Donald Trump's campaign in June 2016 - and Grassley wants to release transcripts from closed-door interviews with Trump's son and others.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks with reporters following a vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018.
President Donald Trump says he's "looking forward" to being interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller. Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Trump says he'd be willing to answer questions under oath.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is finishing its investigation into the meeting between Russians and President Donald Trump's campaign in June 2016 - and the committee chairman wants to release transcripts from closed-door interviews with Trump's son and others. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley says he wants to work out an agreement with Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California to release transcripts from interviews with Donald Trump Jr. and others who attended the campaign meeting in Trump Tower.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr's staff has not been given access to a classified memo drafted by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a sign of how closely House Republicans are guarding allegations of Justice Department wrongdoing over surveillance activities in the Russia investigation. According to three sources familiar with the matter, Burr's staff requested a copy of the memo and has been denied, just as the FBI and Justice Department have also been denied reviewing a copy of the document.
Protesters calling for an immigration bill addressing the so-called Dreamers, young adults who were brought to the United States as children, carry a sign supporting DACA in the office of Senator Chuck Grassley on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday.