Newly elected Senator Ted Kennedy, who served as floor leader for the bill,  assured his colleagues that “our cities will not be flooded with a million  immigrants annually… .... Not surprisingly, the rise of the Latino threat narrative  and the concomitant increase in conservatism were associated over time with the  passage of ...
Aug 8, 2016 ... Editor's note: NPR will also be fact-checking Democratic nominee Hillary  Clinton's planned economic speech this Thursday. Donald Trump is coming off a  week of disastrous headlines and cratering poll numbers. His major economic  speech on Monday at the Detroit Economic Club, a vision described by ...
4/ House Republicans are prepared to block the legislative promises Mitch  McConnell made to Susan Collins and Jeff Flake in exchange for their votes on  the Senate bill. Collins and Flake were assured the Senate would consider  legislation to offset the negative effects from repealing the Affordable Care Act's  individual ...
ROBERT B. REICH is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of  California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing  Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in...
Are we safer? Yes, we're safer from the kind of orchestrated attack that shocked  us on that September morning. It's harder for terrorists to get into the country, and  .... the former chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee; Donna Shalala,  who served as the secretary of health and human services under Bill Clinton; and  ...
The Senate immigration bill "unleashes a massive increase in overall immigration. … We're talking about a population increase under the Senate bill of over 70 million people in 20 years."