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3 hrs ago | News Max

DeMint, Sen. Flake Square Off on Immigration Reform Bill

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.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Senator Jeff Flake, Republican, Jeff Flake, US House of Representatives, John McCain, Arizona

7 hrs ago | MarketWatch

Diana Furchtgott-Roth: The CBO and the case for immigration

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has calculated that the immigration reform bill under consideration in the Senate, S.744, would lower the federal budget deficit by $197 billion over the coming decade, and by $700 billion in 2024 to 2033.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Heritage Foundation, Charitable Organizations, Healthcare Law, Law, Social Security, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican

11 hrs ago | FITSNews

Sanford Challenges FEMA, Heritage On Flood Vote

U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford called into the FITS home office this week to hello - and to make a point regarding his recent vote on a controversial flood insurance program .

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Related Topix: FEMA, US News, Mark Sanford, US Governors, US Politics, US Senate, Republican

15 hrs ago | The Daily Beast

Heritage Widens Immigration Split

Jim DeMint's new hard-right outfit is posing a threat to Republicans considering a 'yes' on immigration-reform legislation.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Heritage Foundation, Charitable Organizations, Illegal Immigration, Tea Party

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Outside the Beltway

Republican Political Calculations On Immigration Reform: Complicated, And Contradictory

Republicans are "in a demographic death spiral" and will fail in their effort to win the presidency if the party blocks an immigration overhaul, a leading GOP senator said Sunday.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, US Politics, Senator Marco Rubio, US Senate, Republican, Representative Tim Scott, US House of Representatives, Lindsey Graham

PennLive.com

America doesn't look like Norman Rockwell anymore - and that's a good thing: Cynthia Tucker

If you find that declaration sad, or possibly slanderous, you probably have fond memories of "the way we were" during a supposedly kinder and gentler time before the civil rights movement, women's lib and cellphones.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, Illegal Immigration, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Rush Limbaugh, Opinion

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Post and Courier

Sen. Graham gets caught in the middle

And on Monday, WTMA radio's Tara Servatius read an email from a listener who called our senior senator - brace yourselves, sensitive readers - “a Democrat.” Their most heated recent case against Lindsey Graham: As a member of the Senate “Gang of Eight,” he's pushing an immigration reform bill that they deem lacking on ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Lindsey Graham, Immigration Reform, Senator Marco Rubio

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Tallahassee Democrat

Cynthia Tucker: Welcome a new, darker America

Norman Rockwell is dead. So is his America. If you find that declaration sad, or possibly slanderous, you probably have fond memories of "the way we were" during a supposedly kinder and gentler time before the civil rights movement, women's lib and cellphones.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, Illegal Immigration, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Rush Limbaugh

Fri Jun 14, 2013

Lake Wylie Pilot

More than $7 million spent in SC's 1st District

Candidates and third party groups spent about $7.3 million in the race for South Carolina's 1st District congressional seat earlier this year.

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Related Topix: US Politics, John Spratt, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative Tim Scott, Republican, Representative Mick Mulvaney, US Senate, Mark Sanford, US Governors

Wed Jun 12, 2013

AltWeeklies

Nuclear Island

Free Times serves South Carolina's capital city of Columbia as a fresh and independent voice covering news, politics, arts and entertainment.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Nuclear Energy, Dick Cheney, Nikki Haley, US Governors

Tue Jun 11, 2013

Lucianne.com

Next 25 Articles

Claiming they had "inadvertently" published "before it was ready for publication," The New York Times published and then yanked a story about Anthony Weiner titled: "For Women in Weiner Scandal, Indignity Lingers."

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, US Politics, Senator Kelly Ayotte, US Senate, Republican, Illegal Immigration

Lucianne.com

Is the American surveillancestate out of control?

This weekA s Telegram is a highly charged debate about America and security. Tim Stanley says the information released by Edward Snowden shows an Obama administration exercising "weird and creepy" control over its citizens.

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Related Topix: US News, US Senate, Republican, US Politics

Bloomberg

Heritage Foundation: Immigration Bill Just an - Amnesty Proposal'

Under former Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, the Heritage Foundation is wading into the debate over immigration through advocacy, not research.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, Heritage Foundation, Charitable Organizations, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Advertising, Marketing

FITSNews

Boeing: "We Got Sanford"

Representatives of aircraft manufacturer Boeing are privately bragging that the company has secured U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford's support for the crony capitalist U.S. Export-Import Bank , which in addition to picking winners and losers in the marketplace provides foreign competitors with an unfair competitive advantage over American companies.

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Related Topix: Mark Sanford, US Governors, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Representative Tim Scott, Representative Trey Gowdy, US House of Representatives, Representative Jeff Duncan, Representative Mick Mulvaney

Mon Jun 10, 2013

FITSNews

Mark Sanford: Flipping Already?

During his first six-year stint in the U.S. House of Representatives , Mark Sanford earned a reputation as a bona fide taxpayer hero who was willing to put the interests of all American taxpayers ahead of the interests of a narrow subset of his constituents.

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Related Topix: Mark Sanford, US Governors, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Mick Mulvaney, US Senate, South Carolina, South Carolina Government

Sat Jun 08, 2013

Myrtle Beach Online

S.C. GOP chairman resigns to take job with Republican National Committee

The chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party resigned Saturday morning to take a job with the Republican National Committee, according to the party's executive director.

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Related Topix: Representative Tim Scott, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Senate, Nikki Haley, US Governors

Thu Jun 06, 2013

Politico

Farm bill advances in Senate

A strong Farm Bill showing in the Senate Thursday clears the way for a final vote on passage Monday evening and puts added pressure on the House to move ahead this month with its own five-year plan to revamp major commodity programs.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US Politics, US News, John Boehner, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Tim Scott, US Senate, Lindsey Graham

Wed Jun 05, 2013

Genesee Country Express

The Heritage Foundation, a former think tank, is now all about messaging rather than research

The Heritage Foundation, a once respectable conservative think tank, seems to have wandered badly off-course since former Republican Sen. Jim DeMint took the helm.

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Related Topix: Heritage Foundation, Charitable Organizations, Immigration Reform, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican

AltWeeklies

Do Bloggers Deserve First Amendment Protection?

Free Times serves South Carolina's capital city of Columbia as a fresh and independent voice covering news, politics, arts and entertainment.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Republican, Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley

Roll Call

Conservative Group Launches Second Attack Against Pryor #ARSEN

Senate Conservatives Action will launch Wednesday the second in a series of three TV ads in Arkansas against Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Mark Pryor, US News, US Senate, Democrat, North Little Rock, AR, Healthcare Law, Law, Republican