June 28, 2011
AP File
By Audrey Hudson
Granting citizenship to certain illegal immigrants under age 35 would give the economy a much-needed boost and fill millions of open jobs, key Obama administration officials told a Senate panel Tuesday...
Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that the U.S. will be short three million college graduates of what the market will demand in 2018 in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics...
The panel clashed with Republican lawmakers in front of a room Democrats packed with hundreds of young adults who themselves suggested they were not in the country legally.
"Let me ask everyone here today who is a DREAM Act student to stand and be recognized," said Sen. Dick Durbin (D. -Ill), the bill's sponsor.
Nearly everyone in the room stood up. HUMNAN EVENTS contacted Durbin's press office after the hearing to ask if those in the audience Durbin recognized were in the country illegally, and are still awaiting a response.
"He will have to explain to the American people why his vision for bigger government, more spending, and higher taxes will work over the next four years when it hasn't worked in the past three and a half years.” – Sen. Rob Portman on President Obama
Apple's Cook Top-Paid US CEO in 2011: ReportApple chief executive Tim Cook topped the list of the best-paid CEOs in the US in 2011 thanks to stock options that put him more than $300 million above...
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