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  • Senate panel approves plan to hire 10,000 more border officers (over next 5 years)

    03/10/2006 9:56:15 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 29 replies · 556+ views
    Daily Bulletin ^ | 3/10/06 | Mason Stockstill
    A Senate committee signed off on a plan for hiring thousands of new Border Patrol officers while eliminating a plan to build 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico divide. The Judiciary Committee agreed on a plan to add roughly 10,000 agents to the ranks of Customs and Border Protection over the next five years. It also adopted an amendment from Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., to replace old fences only in high-population areas along the Arizona border, and required the detention of non-Mexican immigrants caught illegally crossing the border, ending the so-called "catch and release" policy. Kyl's proposal includes funding...
  • PG&E bailout puts burden on consumers - Judge approves plan -- state has final say

    12/13/2003 11:24:33 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 19 replies · 309+ views
    SFGate.com ^ | 12/13/03 | Bob Egelko - SF Chronicle
    <p>A plan that would lift Pacific Gas and Electric Co. out of 2 1/2 years of bankruptcy and require consumers to bear most of the utility's $12 billion-plus debt load won approval Friday from a bankruptcy judge, leaving its fate to state utility regulators.</p>