State Department officials testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere on President Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget request for Latin American and Ca…
436 viewsSenators Bob Menedez (D-NJ) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and several other congressional Democrats held a news conference on recent border policies…
1,216 viewsSenators Durbin (D-IL), Schumer (D-NY), and others spoke with reporters about legislation intended to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
1,439 viewsSenators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ), activists, and other lawmakers spoke at a Capitol Hill rally to mark the 10th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival…
903 viewsThe Senate Finance Committee held a confirmation hearing for Tucson, Arizona Police Chief Chris Magnus to be the next commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection agency. The senators p…
2,977 viewsDemocratic lawmakers, led by Senator Bob Menendez (NJ) and Representative Linda Sanchez (CA), held a virtual news conference to introduce the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, the Biden administ…
1,828 viewsHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and other congressional Democratic leaders spoke about the importance of the Deferred Action Childhood Arrival…
3,398 viewsHealth and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar testified at a hearing on efforts to limit increases in prescription drug prices without disincentivizing research and development efforts by ma…
2,552 viewsRepublican and Democratic lawmakers spoke to reporters following a White House meeting with the president on immigration and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
1,286 viewsDemocratic members of Congress spoke to reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the oral argument in United States v. Texas. National Immigration Law Center executive director Mariele…
194 viewsWitnesses testified on the influx of unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S.-Mexico border from Central America. State and Justice Department official spoke about the economic hardships and v…
2,123 viewsHouse and Senate Democratic leaders held a news conference to mark the one-year anniversary of the Senate’s passage of immigration reform legislation. The House had yet to act on an immigrat…
1,169 viewsDemocrats and Republicans from both Houses took part in a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute discussion on immigration reform. Senators from the bipartisan Gang of Eight talked about th…
294 viewsThe Senate passed the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill, S. 744, on a vote of 68 to 32.
View in Congressional Chronicle4,011 viewsThe “Gang of Eight,” a bipartisan group of senators working on immigration reform, spoke to reporters about their proposal for immigration legislation. Hearings on their proposal were schedu…
1,182 viewsProminent local and national organizations joined community, labor and immigrant rights supporters in a “National Rally for Citizenship” on the West Lawn of the Capitol. Throughout the day, …
1,641 viewsA bipartisan group of senators spoke to reporters about their immigration reform proposal which sought to improve border security, improve immigration status checks performed by employers, a…
5,216 viewsParticipants talked about immigration policy and the Latino community. Among the topics they addressed were the pace of immigration reform efforts, border security issues, deportation guidel…
280 viewsDemocratic senators held a news conference on a failed cloture vote on the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act.
3,367 viewsSenate Democratic leaders announced an outline for immigration reform legislation that included a path forward for granting citizenship to undocumented aliens in the country. They spoke to r…
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