Immigration Bill clears early test vote

A leading Republican senator on Tuesday described controversial U.S. spy programs as looking far deeper into Americans' phone records than the Obama administration has been willing to admit, fueling new privacy concerns as Congress sought to defend the ...

American Soybean Association (ASA) reports: With a vote of 66 to 27 this evening, the United States Senate voted to pass the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2013, better known as the 2013 Farm Bill. The focus now shifts to the House of ...

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul says there is a "war on Christianity" funded by American taxpayers. Paul and other Republican lawmakers considering running for president addressed the Faith and Freedom Coalition's conference of religious conservatives on Thursday.

Washington (CNN) -- A major immigration bill that would give millions of people living illegally in America a path to citizenship cleared a key legislative hurdle Tuesday when a strong Senate majority voted to open debate on it. The 82-15 vote, ...

NSA Director Keith Alexander told a Senate panel that his agency's program did indeed protect American's privacy while gathering data on terrorist activity. Alexander told lawmakers he wants to declassify more details to reassure everyone the ...

Call for Irish Americans to lobby their politicians as debate begins The Senate begins its drive this week to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would offer legal status to millions of undocumented residents, and Irish activists ...

s the negotiations on a comprehensive immigration reform among key stake holders enters its last phase, a top American Senator believes that the Senate would be able to vote on a bill in this regard by this summer.

WASHINGTON, June 9 ( ) - Republican Senator John McCain said on Sunday there is increasing public support for closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and moving detainees to a facility on the

It's been six years since the full Senate considered an overhaul of America's immigration system. Since then I have witnessed countless instances of what that delay has meant. I've seen American families torn apart by deportation and promising ...