Senate Votes Twice for English Language
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Whether English is America&#039;s &quot;national language&quot; or its national &quot;common and unifying language&quot; was a question dominating the Senate immigration debate.
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The Senate used a voice vote Thursday to denounce the massacre of hundreds at a Russian school and to express its condolences to that nation's people.
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The six senators seeking the White House can talk the talk. Voting the vote is not so easy.
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The House voted 336 to 75 for the measure, which now goes to the Senate where it is expected to pass on Wednesday.
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The US Senate aims to repeat a House of Representatives vote critical of President Bush's Iraq troop surge.
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The White House took both sides in a dispute over English being the national language Friday as a broad immigration bill moved toward a final Senate vote next week with one conservative predicting it will never become law.
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Landmark legislation to secure U.S. borders and offer millions of illegal immigrants a share of the American dream cleared the Senate on Thursday, a rare election-year reach across party lines and a triumph for President Bush.
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Election-season winds are gusting strongly in the Republican-run Senate, which disregarded a White House veto threat and voted to bar President Bush from giving some federal immigration jobs to private workers.
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The Senate voted Tuesday to give 45,000 airport screeners the same union rights as border patrol, customs and immigration agents, despite a veto threat from the White House
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Legislation to make English the state's official language has run into opposition from American Indians, who say their native tongues are dying fast enough without any help from lawmakers.
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US President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry each have command of at least one foreign language, but have been loath to put those skills to use as they stump ahead of next month's presidential election.
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Readers of Merriam-Webster selected one with two numbers for letters: w00t.
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A bill to overhaul the nationâs immigration system cleared a crucial test vote today, bolstering its chances for passage by the Senate within days.
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee endorsed the nomination of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state on a 16 to 2 vote Wednesday after Democrats on the panel expressed deep frustration at her answers on Iraq and terrorism in two days of hearings.
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee endorsed the nomination of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state on a 16 to 2 vote yesterday after Democrats on the panel expressed deep frustration at her answers on Iraq and terrorism in two days of hearings.
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A judge has accepted two of three drafts of a ballot initiative summary that would change how U.S. Senate vacancies are filled in Alaska, supporters of the measure said Saturday
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The Senate narrowly rejected two proposals today that would have upset the delicate compromise embodied in a bipartisan bill to overhaul the nationâs immigration laws.