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THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thanks. Please be seated. I'm pleased that you all are here to witness the signature of the Secure Fence Act of 2006. This bill will help protect the American people. This bill will make our borders more secure. It is an important step toward immigration reform. President George W. Bush signs H.R. 6061, the Secure Fence Act of 2006, in the Roosevelt Room Thursday, Oct. 26, 2006. I appreciate the Vice President joining us today. I thank the Deputy Secretary, Michael Jackson, of the Department of Homeland Security. Rob Portman -- he happens to be...

Teen death linked to N. Meck lockdownDAN TIERNEYdtierney@charlotteobserver.com HUNTERSVILLE --A 16-year-old North Mecklenburg High junior, allegedly upset over an ex-girlfriend, is suspected of pointing a gun at two students on campus Wednesday before shooting himself later at a Huntersville gas station.Huntersville police didn't identify the student, who was pronounced dead after being transported to the Carolinas Medical Center, or how he got a gun.North Meck principal Joey Burch wouldn't comment on the student's behavior or past. He also didn't know, as of a press conference around 4 p.m., if the student was ever on campus or in class at any...

This document is a record and analysis of all of Sen. Thompson's immigration related congressional votes, cosponsorships, and other immigration actions during his career in Congress. Immigration Profiles is the only exhaustive source for this information available in one place.

As Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” becomes mandatory viewing for many U.S. school children and nears becoming the “official truth” about global warming, it comes as most welcome news that an absolutely gripping film rebuttal has made its international debut, much to the chagrin of true believers in man-made climate change.Last week, the UK’s Channel 4 premiered a 75-minute film entitled, “The Great Global Warming Swindle.” Through interviews with prize-winning climate experts and others, this masterful documentary explains the origins of global warming alarmism; debunks claims of man-made global climate change; exposes the motivations of organizations, scientists and...

Conservatives are offering a curious explanation for the drubbing they took at the polls: they blame the Republicans. The 2006 elections were not a conservative defeat, you see; they were a Republican one, a rejection of a party that had strayed too far from the conservative path. John McCain put the point nicely: "Americans had elected us to change government, and they rejected us because they believed government had changed us." The corollary is that McCain--along with many other, more reliable conservative spokesmen--believes that most Americans remain quietly conservative. But this latent center-right majority, he argues, needs reassuring that in...

May 28, 2005 Intel touts Pentium D By EditorIntel touts Pentium D " I won't say it is as exciting as the Internet was about 10 years ago, but it comes pretty close," Gerald Holzhammer.Intel has announced the launch of its new dual-core processor, Pentium D, for use in desktop PCs. The Pentium D is Intel's second dual-core processor, following the introduction of the Pentium Extreme Edition in April and comes just a few days ahead of rival AMD's launch of the Athlon 64x2 dual core PC chip. The new Pentium D 840, 830, and 820 chips are less expensive...

<p>HIGHTSTOWN, N.J. &#8212; A group known for fighting against illegal immigrants was asked to leave a Washington Township diner while a Hispanic civil rights conference took place in the borough on Sunday, Washington police said.</p> <p>The New Jersey Division of Civil Rights and the Mercer County Hispanic Association sponsored a civil rights conference for Hispanics on Sunday at St. Anthony of Padua Church. The meeting came in the wake of a series of raids for illegal immigrants in the area by the federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.</p>

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If there are any deluded souls out there who still believe George W. Bush is a conservative, I invite them to examine the 2004 Republican Party platform on the issue of amnesty for illegal immigrants. Bush is for it. That makes him a liberal. Worse, he proclaims that the amnesty is not an amnesty. So he is not only a liberal, but a liar as well.

<p>November 19, 2003 -- The U.S. Labor Department, at the urging of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, is working to fix a statistical quirk that causes the government to routinely underestimate the number of newly unemployed Americans each week, a department official said.</p>

Opportunities coming up for minorities in NASCAR After several failed attempts, NASCAR is trying again to bring more ethnic diversity to auto racing. This time, former NFL star Reggie White is lending a hand. Two new programs will use the stock car sanctioning body's weekly late-model series to help minority drivers and crewmen find a place in the sport. Access Marketing and Communications, in a partnership with NASCAR, will begin a training program in 2004 called "Drive for Diversity" to find rides for four drivers and up to 12 crewmen in the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series. In the other program,...

Tech Layoffs Fading, But No Hiring Boom Monday October 20, 10:37 am ET By Jed Graham While IBM's earnings report Wednesday didn't thrill investors, its plan to add 10,000 jobs next year offered the best tangible hope yet that tech-sector job woes could be ending. IBM said it's confident about the prospects for technology spending and the economy and will add positions in "key skill areas," including high-value services, middleware and Linux. Still, IBM didn't say how many of those jobs will be in the U.S. Recent reports have said IBM plans to boost staff in India to 10,000 by...

  Firms still slashing jobs WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 &#8212; Despite the civilian unemployment rate sliding down to 6.1 percent in August, the government reported Friday that companies slashed payrolls by 93,000, raising new concerns that the fragile economic recovery could falter. AUGUST WAS THE seventh consecutive month of cuts in payrolls, a survey released by the Labor Department showed, indicating continuing weakness in the job market. Analysts had expected companies to add 12,000 new jobs. At the same time, the overall seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell from 6.2 percent to 6.1 percent of the labor force, as reflected by a...

<p>WASHINGTON -- White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, the soft- spoken son of migrant farm workers, has emerged as the overwhelming favorite for a Supreme Court nomination in the months ahead, a move that would give President Bush a historic and politically powerful chance to name the first Latino to the nation's highest court.</p>

By Adam Entous WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) plans to create a new government agency to dole out billions of dollars in foreign aid, forcing the world's poorest countries to compete against one another if they want a share, administration officials said on Monday. Reuters Photo Strict conditions would be set for countries to qualify under the so-called Millennium Challenge Account program aimed at rewarding cash-strapped governments that embrace civil rights, root out corruption, open up their markets and adopt other policies favored by Washington. Taking on critics who say the United States does not provide...

<p>We need immediate and real solutions to the economic challenges we face. But President Bush and House Republicans are, instead, planning more corporate and special-interest tax breaks for 2003 without even addressing the nation's needs.</p> <p>In the 1990s, Democrats proved that sensible, bipartisan action could help unleash the potential of the American people. Today, in the face of rising economic challenges, we need to take a page from what has worked, act on a bipartisan basis and restore economic growth while promoting fiscal responsibility over the long term.</p>