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Gulf Coast lawmakers have a message for the administration: Keep your mitts off my raw oysters.

SNEAKY IS AS sneaky does. One GOP senator has come up with a plan that sounds benign.

Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, has introduced legislation that, if passed, would instruct the U.S. Census Bureau not to take into account illegal immigrants and other noncitizens in the 2010 census.

The U.S. Senate squashed an effort Thursday to include questions in the 2010 U.S. Census regarding immigration and citizenship status.

You could say that common sense is an uncommon virtue in Washington these days, but once in a while Congress manages to get something right.

State Rep. Rick Gallot, D-Ruston, the chairman of the House and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a meeting Wednesday with The News-Star's editorial board that a member of the state's Congressional delegation is being divisive and is motivated by personal political gain in his bid to get the U.S. Census Bureau to place a question about legal ...

Sen. Mary Landrieu turned into a tightwad last week. At least that's what we were led to believe when Landrieu issued a prepared statement outlining why she opposes a proposal to require 2010 census takers to ask an individual if he or she is a U.S. citizen.

In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones' Halliburton/KBR co-workers gang-raped her while she was working in Baghdad.

Ten. Thata s the number of questions youa ll be asked when the 2010 census forms arrive in mail boxes starting next April.

A week ago, Jennie Waldrop, a 30-year-old animal science major at LSU, was a stranger to partisan politics, and had never heard of the Franken amendment, or of Jamie Leigh Jones, whose allegation that she was gang-raped while working for a military contractor in Iraq inspired it.

Now, perhaps we can find some sort of racial peace in Louisiana now that the Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell has decided to resign.

Raped Constituent Confronts Vitter Over No Vote on Rape Amendment >> Posted By TechnologyExpert 7 hours, 48 minutes ago in News Last month, Senator David Vitter was one of 30 Republicans who opposed a congressional measure to prohibit the government from working with contractors who deny victims of rape or assault the right to bring their cases to ...

Last month, Senator David Vitter opposed a congressional measure to prohibit the government from working with contractors who deny victims of rape or assault the right to bring their cases to court.

Sen. Vitter it trying to use the Census to further his anti-immigration agenda, potentially costing the United States millions, writes Gebe Martinez.

The Census Bureau usually counts every resident of the country, citizen and non-citizen, every ten years.

U.S. Sen. David Vitter speaks about health-care plans Saturday afternoon at the Houma Municipal Auditorium.

The notion that the Constitution guarantees representation in the U.S. House of Representatives to non-citizens is one that seems contradictory on its face.

Republican Sen. David Vitter's ongoing crusade to include a citizenship question on the 2010 Census, and then exclude non-citizens from the reapportionment count, has managed to inflame passions all around.

Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell said today he is examining the legal issues related to the upcoming 2010 national census and the resulting reapportionment of congressional seats in light of concerns expressed by U.S. Sen.

David C. Treen rode one of the great currents in recent politcal history, the rise of modern conservatism, and even channeled some of its power himself.