Following the historic, bipartisan, 216-198 passage of the DREAM Act in the U.S. House of Representatives, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid set the stage for a vote on the same bill in the U.S. Senate. On Thursday, he moved to table the Senate version of DREAM so that...
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As the House-passed version of the DREAM Act moves toward a Senate vote as early as next week, new polling shows the bill's popularity among the American people, and underscores the importance of its passage. A new Gallup poll finds that 54 percent of Americans support the...
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In the real world, rejecting the Dream Act is a betrayal of the future. It is unjust to innocent children. It robs the nation of the talents of eager, young people. It perpetuates the folly that all those who are in the U.S. illegally can be deported or made...
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As the future of the DREAM Act remains in the hands of the United States Senate, the Spanish-language press reports today that the upper chamber's strategy of shelving the proposal in order to consider the version passed by the House of Representatives is breathing new life into the bill's...
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A number of newspapers in states as diverse as Texas, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Kansas have editorialized in favor of the DREAM Act this year. The DREAM Act is bi-partisan legislation introduced by Senator Dick Durbin (D‐IL) and Senator Richard Lugar (R‐IN), and Representatives Howard Berman (D-CA), Lucille Roybal-Allard...
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Senate Democrats voted to pull their bill, allowing them to take up a version identical to the House bill..."The DREAM Act is not a symbolic vote," Reid and Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in a statement.
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After watching the House of Representatives pass the DREAM Act yesterday, youth leaders gathered with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) to thank their colleagues and Representatives for voting their conscience.
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With support from a majority of the Florida congressional delegation, lead by Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R), the DREAM Act passed the House of Representatives in an historic, bipartisan vote last night. Now, the bill moves to the U.S. Senate, where Sens. George LeMieux (R-FL) and Bill Nelson...
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After the historic victory yesterday in the House of Representatives, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made a bold move today to shelve a vote on the Senate's original version of the DREAM Act. In doing so, he paved the way for the Senate to take up the House-passed version...
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In a bold move, this morning Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made it possible for the DREAM Act to have a real chance to garner the sixty votes needed for passage. Faced with lock-step Republican opposition to bringing up any measures until tax cuts and government funding are dealt...
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