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With high-tech visa compromise, immigration reform proponents win GOP ally
With a final committee vote on a comprehensive immigration reform bill finally in sight, proponents of immigration reform won the support of a key Republican panel member after hammering out a bipartisan compromise dealing with visas for high-skilled foreign workers. [read more]
- IRS official to invoke Fifth Amendment at hearing A top IRS official scheduled to testify Wednesday before the House Oversight committee has notified Congress that she will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions.
- A new disaster sparks an old debate on federal aidThe Oklahoma tornadoes that killed at least 24 people Monday have restarted the debate in Washington over emergency spending and whether it should be offset by cuts elsewhere in the federal budget.
- Senators demand answers from IRS officials but get few new answersU.S. senators of both parties directed outrage at top IRS officials over not being informed earlier as to the tax agency's work to target conservatives and demanded answers Tuesday as to why action was not taken more quickly to halt the abuses.
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