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Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint on Wednesday blasted the sweeping immigration bill being debated in the U.S. Senate, while one of the bill's sponsors - Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona - said it would boost the nation's economic growth.

Another talking point bites the dust. Opponents of the comprehensive immigration reform working its way through the U.S. Senate have often decried the high cost of legalizing undocumented immigrants.

To Slate's Jeremy Stahl, the drunk-driving kid of a Democratic politician is far less scandalous than offensive tweets from the progeny of a conservative Republican.

Attending a recent briefing from a political advisor with ties back to the Reagan Administration, I was struck by a powerpoint slide showing what looked to me like a dagger aimed at the heart of the Republican Party.

Some 8 million people in the U.S. illegally would initially gain legal status under the legislation, according to the CBO analysis.

CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation estimate that enacting S. 744 would generate changes in direct spending and revenues that would decrease federal budget deficits by $197 billion over the 2014-2023 period .

Sign up to Booker Rising's RSS feed to receive updates in your feed reader or sign up with your email address below to receive the updates via email! The conservative Republican blogger in D.C. writes : "Republican Senator Jeff Flake had to apologize for his 15-year-old son's unsavory remarks on Twitter.

U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake , R-Ariz., wants some answers from the FBI regarding sweeping U.S. government domestic surveillance programs that collected cell phone and other swaths of data.

House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that he does not "see any way" of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that does not have backing from a majority of the House's GOP members, calling the border security provisions in the measure currently making its way through the Senate "weak" and "laughable."

The attempted seduction of Sen. John Cornyn by immigration reformers is akin to my effort to get Neil Patrick Harris, the best emcee ever of any awards show, to sing at my next birthday.

So much so, perhaps, that when it comes to the Gang of Eight's immigration-reform bill, of which Cruz has been one of the strongest Republican critics, it might seem like he's been taking it easy.

New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza caused a bit of a stir in the conservative media world today in a report he filed for the New Yorker about the ongoing debate in the U.S. Senate over an immigration bill that is currently opposed by many conservatives.

Arizona violated the federal "Motor Voter" law when it added a proof-of-citizenship requirement to standard voter-registration forms intended for use nationwide, the Supreme Court held Monday.

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Sen. Jeff Flake's teen son's hateful tweets have made news. But is the boy's vile vocabulary also the sin of the father? The country's newest Miss USA is leaving a white collar job behind for the glamour and excitement that goes with her new role- and she can't wait.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at the North American Board Meeting for the Union for Reform Judaism, May 31, 2013, in New York City.

FILE: April 18, 2013: So-called Gang of Eight in Washington, D.C. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Sen. Charles Schumer, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.

Republicans have an opportunity for a get-out-of-jail moment with the fastest-growing slice of the U.S. electorate, Hispanics.

As negotiations swirl around a sweeping bipartisan immigration reform bill, John Cornyn , the Republican senior senator from Texas, has elbowed his way into the center of the discussion.

Social media can be a powerful tool for politicians. Or it can be "just another place to put your foot in your mouth," as two Arizona lawmakers indirectly learned this week.