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In August of 2005, participants at gun shows in Virginia were shocked to discover that while they were purchasing perfectly legal firearms, BATFE agents visited their homes and their neighbors' homes (1), asking questions like, "Do you know your spouse/neighbor is buying a gun? How do you feel about that?" Agents obtained the residence information from purchase forms that buyers are required to fill out ... a clear violation of federal law.Now, seven months later, the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security will hold an oversight hearing to investigate apparent wrongdoing by BATFE. The hearings will...

Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the House point man on immigration, yesterday said that a guest-worker program like the one proposed by President Bush is amnesty and that he cannot accept it in a final immigration bill. - "It seems to me that if you give these people the temporary cards, and the president talked a little bit about that yesterday out in Kansas, whether they are three-year cards or six-year cards or any other term, how do you get them to go back home when they expire?" he said. - He also said when Congress and the White House...

Commentary, “No one’s life, liberty or property is safe when the legislature is in session,” stated wise man, Samuel Clemens AKA Mark Twain. James Sensenbrenner, Chairman of the House of Representatives, marginally carried the day in the House to criminalize a large portion of the country’s population for going about their everyday activities of working and hiring others to work. The Sensenbrenner bill instantly turns millions of people into felons. There’s the estimated 11 or more million mostly Mexican illegal aliens in the country plus the people who know and or employ them, as well. It builds a wall on...

NATIONAL SECURITY IS GREATER CONCERN by Timothy Rollins, Editor and Publisher January 18, 2006 This article first appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel January 9, 2006In the Jan. 2 Journal Sentinel, Darlene Mendez voiced her concerns regarding passage of state legislation - Senate Bill 234 and Assembly Bill 69 - as they pertain to tightening identification requirements for obtaining driver's licenses or state ID cards in Wisconsin ("Driver's license legislation harmful").Most people are aware that House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) was instrumental in getting passed into federal law the Real ID Act.The law mandates uniform standards nationwide...

WASHINGTON - House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner threatened Thursday to block passage of legislation renewing the anti-terror Patriot Act, Republican officials disclosed. The Senate passed a six-month extension Wednesday night, and House approval is required by Dec. 31 to keep in place the enhanced law enforcement powers first enacted in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Sensenbrenner's spokesman declined comment. The Senate action effectively sidetracked a comprehensive House-Senate compromise that would have extended most of the existing law indefinitely, making several changes in the meantime. It was blocked by a Democrat-led filibuster in the Senate, in which...

BC-Patriot Act, 7th Ld-Writethru,730 Key House committee chairman talks of stopping extension of terror-fighting law Eds: LEADS with 11 grafs to UPDATE with developments; CHANGES byline. AP Photos DCYG101-105, WX109, 114 By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner threatened Thursday to block passage of six-month extension of the Patriot Act, Republicans officials said, leaving open the possibility that the anti-terror legislation enacted after the attacks of 2001 might expire at year's end. A spokesman for the Wisconsin Republican declined comment. Sensenbrenner's reticence sent the White House and congressional GOP leaders scrambling to...

Over the course of the last few weeks, the debate around the War on Terror has intensified, particularly with some people calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops in Iraq. I cannot think of a worse move than an immediate retreat, especially in light of the upcoming elections on December 15. Pulling out of Iraq now, on the brink of this momentous election, would completely defeat all our efforts to help the Iraqi people build a lasting democracy in the heart of the Middle East. More than any attack or suicide bombing, retreat would signal the ultimate victory for...

Right on Track The brutal winds of adversity came with force in August when Hurricane Katrina washed ashore, wreaking havoc in its path. Although the devastation left by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma was unprecedented in U.S. history, our economy proved its resilience as the winds that blew across America’s Gulf Coast amounted to little more than a breeze through our nation’s robust economy. Remember the job loss reported in September? Revised numbers show that the economy actually added 17,000 new jobs. That’s right -- in the wake of America’s most horrendous natural disaster ever, payrolls still increased. Last month...

Washington, DC - The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., is appalled by the "Border and Immigration Enforcement Act of 2005" (H.R. 4437), a bill introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI). Instead of providing a comprehensive, effective approach to immigration problems, the bill is a laundry list of mean-spirited and intrusive provisions concocted by the most radical immigrant restrictionists in Congress. Among its many provisions, H.R. 4437 would: Make it harder for legal immigrants to become U.S. citizens. Disrupt American communities and put all Americans...

WASHINGTON -- Setting the stage for a bitter pre-Christmas fight, top House lawmakers introduced legislation Tuesday that would make it easier to deport legal -- as well as illegal -- immigrants and mandate a $360 million employee verification program. But despite insistence from President Bush that any immigration measure must also create a way for America's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants to temporarily live and work in the United States, the bill does not include such a provision. And while Democrats and some Republicans assailed the bill -- by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisc., and Peter King, R-N.Y. -- as impractical,...

In a bid to bypass critics, the Senate will pass the plan and then merge it with a House bill, observers say. Washington - Republican leaders will try to pass President Bush's controversial guest-worker proposal without putting it to a direct vote in the House. Observers say the new GOP strategy that begins today is for the House to deal only with the more politically palatable issue of increasing border security and clamping down on employers. Republican leaders then will let the Senate pass some form of a guest-worker plan. After that vote, senators and House members will merge the...

(CNSNews.com) - Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said he will introduce legislation on Tuesday addressing "some of the problems" with the U.S. immigration system. "Quite clearly, this system is broken and must be fixed," Sensenbrenner said in a press release. Sensenbrenner said his proposal will focus on prevention, including stronger border security and a "serious interior immigration enforcement effort." "This legislation will demand that people follow the law and be held accountable for their actions -- whether it's an employer hiring illegal workers, a smuggler trafficking in human beings in a 21st...

U.S. House of Representatives N E W S R E L E A S E For Immediate Release: October 21, 2005 Davis, Waxman, Sensenbrenner, Conyers, Boehlert, and Gordon React To GAO Report on Security Problems With Electronic Voting Systems Washington, D.C. - Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-VA) and Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), Judiciary Committee Chair F. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), and Science Committee Chair Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) and Ranking Member Bart Gordon (D-TN), issued the following statements upon today's release of the Government Accountability Office's report, "Federal Efforts to Improve Security...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.) today introduced legislation providing for additional federal judgeships and realigning the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals into 2 separate circuits. H.R. 4093, the “Federal Judgeship and Administrative Efficiency Act of 2005,” is co-sponsored by Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), who offered the amendment adopted last year by the House to realign the Ninth Circuit. Chairman Sensenbrenner stated, “Make no mistake, any effort to administratively restructure the federal judiciary must go beyond adding more judgeships and address the administrative inefficiencies caused by the Ninth Circuit’s mammoth size. Realigning the Ninth Circuit has been...

Wisconsin Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., in a highly visible national role as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is doing a great impression of anchorman Howard Beale going stark, raving mad in public. Beale, played by actor Peter Finch in the film "Network," became a media hero for suddenly flipping out on the air and rambling incoherently that he was "mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" Sensenbrenner is much too boorish and pompous ever to become a folk hero. But even though media all over the country have taken notice of Sensenbrenner's seriously bizarre...

Wisconsin Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. has come under fire for second-guessing a federal appeals court ruling in a Chicago drug case. In a letter to the chief judge of the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Sensenbrenner said a low-level drug dealer should have gotten 10 years in prison instead of just more than eight. While critics say the letter was bizarre, misguided and ethically questionable, a spokesman for Sensenbrenner says the eight-year sentence was illegal and the Menomonee Falls Republican was simply doing his job as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee The letter, the contents of which...

Property Ruling Strikes Nerve in House Reacting to high court decision, lawmakers pass amendment that would ban use of federal funds for some seizures of private land. By Maura Reynolds and David G. Savage Times Staff Writers July 1, 2005 WASHINGTON — Angry over a recent Supreme Court decision, the House on Thursday began a legislative drive to roll back the power of local governments to seize homes and other private property for economic development projects. By a vote of 231 to 189, the House approved an amendment forbidding the administration from spending money on local projects that seize private...

Gene Healy is senior editor at the Cato Institute and editor of the new book Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything. WASHINGTON - Drug warriors in Congress are considering a bill that would send parents to jail for at least three years if they learn of drug activity near their children and fail to report it to authorities within 24 hours. One wonders if this a good idea, especially in areas such as Baltimore, where intimidation and murder of government witnesses are common. But when it comes to the criminal law, Congress rarely pauses for reflection anymore....

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Jerrold Nadler's Two Faces on Terror By Jacob LaksinFrontPageMagazine.com | June 13, 2005Last Friday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Patriot Act had already been adjourned, but Jerrold Nadler, the Democratic blimpish congressman from New York and one of the leftmost members of the House Judiciary Committee, was too wound up to care: “We are not besmirching the honor of the United States, we are trying to uphold it,” bellowed the hefty Nadler. By this, Nadler meant to defend his attacks on the alleged abuses of the (in fact) privileged  prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Thanks to the efforts of the...

WASHINGTON — The Republican House Judiciary Committee chairman walked off with the gavel Friday, leaving Democrats shouting into turned-off microphones at a raucous hearing on the Patriot Act. The hearing, with the two sides accusing each other of being irresponsible and undemocratic, came as President Bush was urging Congress to renew the sections of the post-Sept. 11 counter-terrorism law set to expire in September. Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.), chairman of the panel, abruptly gaveled the meeting to an end and walked out, followed by other Republicans. Sensenbrenner said that much of the testimony, which veered into debate over...

WASHINGTON -- The Republican chairman walked off with the gavel, leaving Democrats shouting into turned-off microphones at a raucous hearing Friday on the Patriot Act. The House Judiciary Committee hearing, with the two sides accusing each other of being irresponsible and undemocratic, came as President Bush was urging Congress to renew those sections of the post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism law set to expire in September. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the panel, abruptly gaveled the meeting to an end and walked out, followed by other Republicans. Sensenbrenner declared that much of the testimony, which veered into debate over the detainees...

c By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer 32 minutes ago The Republican chairman walked off with the gavel, leaving Democrats shouting into turned-off microphones at a raucous hearing Friday on the Patriot Act. The House Judiciary Committee hearing, with the two sides accusing each other of being irresponsible and undemocratic, came as President Bush was urging Congress to renew those sections of the post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism law set to expire in September. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the panel, abruptly gaveled the meeting to an end and walked out, followed by other Republicans. Sensenbrenner declared that much of the...

WASHINGTON - The Republican chairman walked off with the gavel, leaving Democrats shouting into turned-off microphones at a raucous hearing Friday on the Patriot Act. The House Judiciary Committee hearing, with the two sides accusing each other of being irresponsible and undemocratic, came as President Bush was urging Congress to renew those sections of the post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism law set to expire in September. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the panel, abruptly gaveled the meeting to an end and walked out, followed by other Republicans. Sensenbrenner declared that much of the testimony, which veered into debate over the detainees...

At a press conference and Congressional briefing on Wednesday, May 25th, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) will introduce federal legislation that could cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in federal law enforcement grants to local anti-drug task forces. The legislation, which is being co-sponsored by Representatives John Conyers (D-MI), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Donald Payne (D-NJ), and Ed Towns (D-NY), would prohibit states from spending federal Byrne grants on regional narcotics task forces unless they adopt laws preventing people from being convicted of drug offenses when the only evidence against them is the uncorroborated testimony of a law enforcement officer...

Border Control Key to National Security By Paul Weyrich May 13, 2005 We must control our country’s borders. Former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Admiral James M. Loy appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in February to counsel the Committee about improving immigration control at our nation’s borders. He delivered a message that was not given wide media coverage but one that many Americans already knew. Admiral Loy said: Recent information from ongoing investigations, detentions, and emerging threat streams strongly suggests that al-Qaeda has considered using the Southwest Border to infiltrate the United States. Several al-Qaeda leaders believe...

With conservative anger at the judiciary peaking, House Republican leaders plan to use budgetary, oversight and disciplinary authority to assert greater control over the federal courts before next year's elections. The planned legislative challenge to the courts reflects longtime conservative suspicion of the courts and displeasure over the courts' refusal to restore a feeding tube to Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Floridian who died March 31. The review was ordered by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, who complained about an "arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary." House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., opened the drive by suggesting in a speech at...

With conservative anger at the judiciary peaking, House Republican leaders plan to use budgetary, oversight and disciplinary authority to assert greater control over the federal courts before next year's elections. The legislative challenge to the courts reflects longtime conservative suspicion of the courts and displeasure over the courts' refusal to restore a feeding tube to Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Floridian who died March 31. A review was ordered by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), who complained about an "arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary." Although DeLay made the issue a party signature, House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.)...

WASHINGTON -- House Judiciary chairman James Sensenbrenner urged Congress on Monday to create a government watchdog for the federal judiciary, but he also said lawmakers should ignore conservative calls to weaken courts because of federal judges' decisions during the Terri Schiavo case. "While I vociferously disagree with the federal judiciary's handling of this case, that does not mean that Congress should respond by attempting to neuter the courts," Sensenbrenner said in prepared remarks for a speech at Stanford University. Several conservatives outside and inside Congress have urged lawmakers to look into possibly cutting money from courts that have made decisions...

House Judiciary chairman James Sensenbrenner urged Congress on Monday to create a government watchdog for the federal judiciary, but he also said lawmakers should ignore conservative calls to weaken courts because of federal judges' decisions during the Terri Schiavo case. The federal courts refused to order the reinsertion of Schiavo's feeding tube, and the brain-damaged Florida woman died March 31. That set off a firestorm of conservative criticism against the federal benches. The House Judiciary Committee is looking into setting up an inspector general's office to work with the federal appeals and trial judges to see how they are handling...

House Republicans say they haven't opened and don't plan any new investigations of federal judges after Terri Schiavo's death despite Majority Leader Tom DeLay's promise to examine the judiciary's conduct. Some of the issues raised by DeLay were being examined by Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., before the embattled Texas Republican's recent barrage against federal judges over their handling of Schiavo's case. Sensenbrenner also has been looking for a long time at the idea of increasing Congress' oversight of judicial discipline. He told a judicial conference last year that Congress "will begin assessing whether the disciplinary authority delegated to...

Dr. Dobson was interviewed on Hugh Hewitt's radio program tonight. He said that Rep. Sensenbrenner is to blame for Congress not passing legislation on Friday that could have been sent to Pres. Bush for signature, to save Terri Schiavo.He said Sensenbrenner was hung up on some procedural technicalities -- made it sound like turf issues and ego.Dobson said it's important to put pressure on Sensenbrenner Anyone know whether this is right?A caller said Sensenbrenner told Hanity that the Senate bill's language wasn't good enough. Hewitt responded that you can't make the perfect the enemy of the good - i.e., you...

Washington -- The House Tuesday tacked on a provision to President Bush's emergency $81.3 billion war spending legislation that would make it all but illegal for California to issue driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants. By voice vote, the Republican-led House added the driver's license provision -- and the other immigration security measures it had approved as a separate bill in February -- to the spending legislation that will help pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The House is expected to approve the war spending bill today and send it to the Senate, where the immigration provisions create a...

Some key players in White House immigration policy have seen career setbacks in recent weeks. Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson (search) resigned altogether from the Department of Homeland Security shortly after the president did not select him to replace nominee Bernard Kerik (search). Rep. Chris Cannon (search), who in only mid-January was telling the press that he would do everything in his power to see his guest worker program passed, had resigned from the House Immigration Subcommittee by the end of the month. Some observers have wondered if these resignations are mere coincidence or if they are signs that the White House...

WHITEFISH BAY, Wis. — On a typically frigid winter's night in this affluent Milwaukee suburb, about a dozen people braved the cold for a recent town hall meeting with their local congressman. But Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. did not see it as an opportunity for an intimate chat with constituents. Sensenbrenner, chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, asked anyone who wished to speak to submit a written request. At the scheduled start time, he ascended the podium in the borrowed Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors chambers, then gaveled the meeting to order. He was separated from the small...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 - The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to approve a bill tightening immigration laws in the name of border security. The main provisions of the bill, which passed 261 to 161, block states from issuing standard drivers' licenses to illegal immigrants and make it easier for judges to expel asylum seekers. Representative F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Republican of Wisconsin and sponsor of the bill, said that the measures were necessary to fulfill recommendations of the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Noting that several of the men involved in those attacks were...

Jim Sensenbrenner’s border security bill to bar illegals from getting driver’s licenses, among other things, just passed the House 261-161. Forty-two Democrats voted for it and eight Republicans against. When the Iraq supplemental appropriations bill comes up, this measure will be attached to it and then the ball will be in the Senate’s (more hostile) court.

House Likely to OK Migrant Restrictions Thu Feb 10, 7:55 AM ET By Mary Curtius Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — A bill aimed at blocking states from issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants appeared headed for passage today in the House of Representatives, aided by a strong endorsement from the White House and broad support within the Republican majority. • Latimes.com home page • Subscribe to the Los Angeles Times Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (news, bio, voting record) Jr. (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (news - web sites) and the bill's prime sponsor, portrayed the legislation — which...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Although reshaping U.S. immigration law is a priority of President Bush's second term, his proposal for a guestworker program wasn't on the table as the Republican-controlled House took up an immigration bill this week. Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, sponsor of the bill scheduled for a vote Thursday, said his legislation deals with border security. Including Bush's guestworker proposal or other measures would muddy the debate and mark all immigrants as terrorists, he said. "I think they are two separate issues. The immigration question is something the Judiciary Committee will handle later on,"

The National ID card is back in the news, as Congress is getting set once again to debate the issue. You will remember that late last year, Congress passed (and the President signed) legislation which starts us down the road to a National ID card. In the name of preventing alien terrorists from operating in this country, the so-called Intelligence Reform bill gave federal bureaucrats unprecedented new powers to force changes in state-issued driver's licenses -- including, possibly, the addition of computer chip technology that can facilitate the tracking of all U.S. citizens. Now, the House will be debating new...

H.R.418 is a measure before the House that will strictly control use of drivers'licences by illegal aliens and Grsssfire has sent a petition with over 110,000 signatures to Congress urging their support. They also gave a phone number,202-224-3121, by which one can contact one's representative in DC. To my amazement I delivered my message to my congressman's office in less than two minutes! Everyone concerned about illegals and the threat some potentially pose to national security should become involved!

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 - Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority leader, said Tuesday that conservatives might be able to compromise with President Bush on his proposal allowing illegal immigrants to work in the United States legally. Such a compromise could entail, for example, requiring illegal immigrants to return to their native countries to apply for the program, Mr. DeLay said. Advertisement Mr. DeLay said he talked recently with the president, who has advocated a guest worker program that would be open to workers who are currently in the country illegally as well as to newcomers.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The county Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to continue to accept identification cards issued by foreign consulates but to train county employees to help them detect fraudulent cards. The decision came after Supervisor Mike Antonovich announced he had been given a fraudulent Mexican identification card with his own photo on it and urged fellow supervisors not to accept the cards. The motion passed by a 3-2 vote with Supervisors Gloria Molina, Yvonne B. Burke and Zev Yaroslavsky in favor, and Antonovich and Don Knabe voting against the measure. The Mexican consular cards are by far the...

FEBRUARY 7, 2005 - Action 4 News undercover cameras catch Border Patrol agents dropping off illegal immigrants at a local bus station by the van load. How do we know the immigrants are not possible terrorists? You'll soon find out we don't! Could this be a sign of border breakdown? New Year's Eve morning agents pull up to the Valley Transit bus station in Harlingen, open the back of their van and a hand full of illegal immigrants jump out. But that's just the beginning, six days later more illegal immigrants were set free, free to travel anywhere they want...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A ragged fence and a canyon called Smugglers Gulch mark the westernmost stretch of the California-Mexico border, a favorite crossing point for illegal immigrants and drug runners.

Immigration Bill Could Settle Fight Over California-Mexico Border FenceBy Erica Werner Associated Press Writer Published: Feb 5, 2005 WASHINGTON (AP) - A ragged fence and a canyon called Smugglers Gulch mark the westernmost stretch of the California-Mexico border, a favorite crossing point for illegal immigrants and drug runners. The federal government and a powerful local Republican congressman have been pushing for years to fortify the 3 1/2-mile stretch of border just north of Tijuana, Mexico. Their plan is opposed by California coastal regulators and environmentalists who say it could harm a fragile Pacific estuary. Now supporters may be getting closer...

H.R.418 Title: To establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, and to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence. Sponsor: Rep Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [WI-5] (introduced 1/26/2005) Cosponsors (125) Latest Major Action: 1/26/2005 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case...

House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner has renewed his fight to stop federal agencies from accepting as legal identification the driver's licenses issued by states that give licenses to illegal aliens. In December, this and a few other provisions dealing with border security were stripped by the Senate from the law responding to the recommendations of the Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Fulfilling a vow to return to these issues, Sensenbrenner (R.-Wis.) introduced the REAL ID act two weeks ago. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R.-Tex.) has scheduled a vote on the bill this week. HUMAN EVENTS Editor...

House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner has renewed his fight to stop federal agencies from accepting as legal identification the driver's licenses issued by states that give licenses to illegal aliens. In December, this and a few other provisions dealing with border security were stripped by the Senate from the law responding to the recommendations of the Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Fulfilling a vow to return to these issues, Sensenbrenner (R.-Wis.) introduced the REAL ID act two weeks ago. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R.-Tex.) has scheduled a vote on the bill this week. HUMAN EVENTS Editor...

Urge your representative and senators to oppose amnesty for illegal aliens, in any shape or form.   The Bush administration will continue to push for some form of amnesty. A statement posted on the White House website (http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/immigration/) in a report covering President Bush’s January 7th White House meeting during which he discussed his immigration policy, stated:   “On January 7, 2004 President Bush proposed a new temporary worker prrogram to match willing foreign workers with willing U.S. employers when no Americans can be found to fill the jobs. The program would be open to new foreign workers, and to...