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FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – It was a long and busy day during the 60th and final day of the Kentucky General Assembly on Thursday as lawmakers rushed to approve legislation ....
FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – It was a long and busy day during the 60th and final day of the Kentucky General Assembly on Thursday as lawmakers rushed to approve legislation ....
Details surface on Rubio-GOP version of Dream Act  Published Nov. 19, 2012 Sen. Marco Rubio while in Iowa on Saturday told reporters that he has been circulating a draft of a Dream Act alternative and received positive feedback. His office declined to provide a copy but said it mirrors this Achieve Act that popped up on Capitol Hill late last week. The one-page draft, apparently leaked as a trial balloon, would be limited to college-educated immigrants or those who serve in the military and ultimately result in a non-conditional, nonimmigrant visa. In other words, no special pathway to citizenship, as the Dream Act would provide. Rubio and others hope this sidesteps the amnesty question but some on the right don t see it that way. Democrats, meanwhile, feel post-election momentum to push for the regular Dream Act. (The New York Times on Sunday urged President Obama to seek broad reform) ....
To raise taxes on anyone, but i just hope that the president will in some way maybe not make it so stark and will allow us to do something on the spending side. because if we just raise the taxes and don t do anything about the spending, i think it will be a terrible signal we just can t get our act together and deal with the real deficits and debt that we have. shannon: i want to ask about something else, the achieve act. republicans have taken heat on immigration. what do you think the act will do and what are the odds of success? we re trying to give young people who have come to our country with their parents illegally but through no fault of their own, they were under 14, children. they have gone to american high schools and graduated. and we re trying to give them a legal status that is a visa, a student advice is. ....