Passage of TAA is necessarily in order to get the controversial Trade Promotion Authority, or “fast-track,” to the president’s desk. After their effort thwarted was last week, House Republicans and the White House are seeking to move TAA before the summer, to get the back that would grant Obama the authority to expedite consideration of trade deals over the finish line.
Last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services confirmed to Breitbart News that it would be using the Crystal City facility in Arlington, VA, as an immigration service center and hiring new employees to that end. The multistory facility, set to be named the Potomac Service Center, would be the agency’s fifth service center.
Christopher Bunn is slated to be sentenced Tuesday for his October guilty plea to grand larceny in the third degree for collecting his father, James Bunn’s, pension payments of $7,542 and Social Security benefits of $17,790 after James Bunn’s death.
In a letter to President Obama, McCaul expresses concerns about the heightened threat of infiltration into the process by terrorists.
More than 120 convicted criminals who were supposed to be deported from the U.S. after they were released from custody between 2010-2014 face murder charges, new Immigration and Customs Enforcement data show.
McCarthy said that while there have been no decision made on how to move forward, he estimated that it would need to be completed before “the summer’s out,” reports say. According to Politico, McCarthy did not reveal whether the House would try for a re-do vote on TAA this week.
Friday, the House defeated TAA 126-302, in a striking rebuke to President Obama who had hours earlier met with the Democratic caucus to make the case for fast-track trade authority.
Pelosi took to the House floor to reveal that she would be opposing a the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) bill to “slow down the fast-track,” or Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). The 126-302 vote against TAA, represented a striking defeat for Obama who had visited the Democratic caucus that morning to plea for support.
Senate Republicans are pressing the Obama administration on its newly revealed plans to use a facility initially leased to house employees who would process executive amnesty — currently blocked by a court injunction — as a general immigration service center
Pelosi’s move came hours after Obama made a plea to House Democrats in the Capitol to support the trade effort.
”Obama’s previous lawlessness on a range of issues should not be rewarded with expanded executive authority,” TPP co-founded Jenny Beth Martin said in a statement to Breitbart News. “And there should always be public scrutiny of bills before they are voted upon.”
The Obama administration has been instructed to put the brakes on its executive amnesty programs, but the building leased to house the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees who would have carried out that workload will not be sitting vacant.
According to Sens. Durbin and Sessions, the DOL has opened investigations into Infosys and Tata — two foreign companies that have brought guest workers on H-1B visas into the United States to replace American workers.
The immigration reduction group NumbersUSA announced Thursday ahead of the upcoming House vote on Trade Promotion Authority that it will be scoring member’s votes.
Thursday Grassley revealed that whistleblowers say Abarca Torres Alvaro — arrested in February 2013 and convicted of statutory rape that October — received DACA in April 2013. “He retained DACA even after he was convicted of the crime and served prison time,” Grassley wrote in a letter to DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson dated Wednesday.
By passing Trade Promotion Authority we’ll actually give Congress more openness more involvement in what the trade agreement may look like if we ever get one and goal posts along the way,” Boehner told reporters Thursday.
The conservative group is warning that it will be scoring the upcoming vote on providing President Obama fast-track authority to negotiate trade deals. “Absent ironclad public commitments from Boehner and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that the Export-Import Bank will not be reauthorized, Heritage Action will key vote against H.R. 1314,” the group warned Wednesday.
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to find under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from commercial aircraft contribute to the pollution that causes climate change, endangering the health and welfare of Americans,” the EPA announced Wednesday.
According to USCIS, the agreement will establish so called “New Americans Corners” in the more than 200 public libraries in Brooklyn, New York and Queens where immigrants learn more about becoming a citizen and prepare for the naturalization process.
The suit calls for the court to declare that the policy of classifying the children of illegal immigrants living in South Carolina as “non-residents” violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.
“Trade votes are never an easy lift around here but Republicans are continuing to work and we’re seeing some positive momentum in the right direction,” House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told reporters Wednesday morning, following the House GOP Conference’s weekly closed door meeting.
“TSA’s recent 96 percent failure rate was not the result of sophisticated, so-called ‘Red Teams.’ The administration has an obligation to responsibly declassify the inspector general’s investigation and to publicly release everything else it knows about TSA’s failures,” Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska says.
U.S. Capitol Police have cleared several floors of the Dirkson Senate Office building after receiving a phone call reporting a “suspicious package.”
An Economic Policy Institute expert is highlighting the disconnect between Disney Corporation’s high profits and the company’s subsequent replacement of its employees with less expensive foreign labor.
Current and former cabinet secretaries are among the millions of federal employees whose personal information may have been compromised by a data breach at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
