Senate immigration bill to aid economy, budget office says

By Richard Cowan and Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small group of Republican senators worked Monday on a possible border security compromise that would make a sweeping immigration bill more acceptable to some otherwise reluctant ...

By Richard Cowan and Jeff Mason, Reuters WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted on Tuesday to begin consideration of a White House-backed bill to overhaul the U.S. immigration system, burying a procedural roadblock that opponents ...

By Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate plunged into the contentious issue of overhauling America's immigration rules on Friday, with a vote expected by the end of June on legislation that could define President ...

By Kim Dixon and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - What began as a bipartisan congressional probe into Internal Revenue Service practices is quickly turning into a verbal brawl with U.S. Representative Darrell Issa, no stranger to controversy, ...

* Bill faces difficult path in House * Concern over healthcare issue By Richard Cowan and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday his chamber would chart its own path on ...

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supporters of U.S. immigration reform Even Senator Charles Grassley But a tentative deal on a companion bill in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives The main sticking point, according to ...

By Richard Cowan and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate negotiators on Tuesday reached a tentative deal to ease restrictions on U.S. technology firms hiring highly skilled workers from abroad, potentially a big win for industry as ...

By Richard Cowan and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group "We have essentially come to an agreement on all the major points," Democratic Representative John Yarmuth The bipartisan group has been attempting to introduce an ...

11:06pm BST By Richard Cowan and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives trying to write an immigration bill met on Thursday in a last-ditch attempt to resolve their differences over a temporary worker ...