U.S. service member s mother was deported. Salud Carbajal offers bill to prevent that Matt Fountain, The Tribune (San Luis Obispo, Calif.)
Jan. 26 A family whose matriarch was deported to Mexico during the Trump Administration joined Central Coast Congressman Salud Carbajal Tuesday for an emotional news conference announcing a bill to grant residency to parents of U.S. service members.
Promoting his bill introduced Monday, called the Protect Patriot Parents Act, Carbajal on Tuesday said in a Zoom conference that the parents of U.S. citizens who honorably serve their country should be granted permanent residency.
The lawmaker had previously introduced the bill in 2019, but was unsuccessful. He said that the new Biden Administration and a Democratic-controlled Congress gives him confidence that the new bill which includes a welcome home clause that would grant temporary residency to immigrants during case proceedings will receive majority support.
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Collectively, the moves are designed to signal that Biden intends to make curbing climate change a priority, even if Congress doesn’t. With a one-vote majority of Democrats controlling the Senate, the administration’s hopes of passing major climate legislation rest with a few moderates friendly to oil, gas and coal companies.
But the Interior Department has considerable authority over federal lands, which the administration can use to pressure fossil fuel companies and their investors, and encourage the development of renewable energy. Biden’s order on leasing will direct the department to create a plan to double energy production from offshore wind by 2030.
Biden Wants to Return to the Iran Deal. He Can Start Here.
There is a window now to restore America’s credibility and bring more stability to the Middle East.
By Majid Takht-Ravanchi
Dr. Ravanchi is Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations and his country’s highest-ranking diplomat in the United States. He helped negotiate the 2015 nuclear agreement, from which former President Donald Trump withdrew the United States in 2018, and which President Biden has said he wants to rejoin. Iran is now in violation of some terms of the agreement but has said there is a window to revive the deal.
Here’s a way to address the tactic used to stall the Senate and upend presidential agendas.
By Burt Neuborne and Erwin Chemerinsky
The writers are law professors.
Jan. 27, 2021
The original “speaking filibuster” was made famous by Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (1939).Credit.Columbia Pictures, via Associated Press
For President Biden to succeed, the Democrats must find a way to limit the Republicans’ use of the filibuster, the procedural weapon in the Senate that requires 60 votes to advance legislation to a vote and threatens to leave the new president’s agenda in purgatory.
On Monday, the newly demoted Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, relented on his demand that Senate Democrats preserve the filibuster, and he agreed to move ahead with discussions on a power-sharing agreement. But the filibuster still lives: At least two Democrats have said they oppose ending it, enough to frustrate any effort by Democrats to do so by a major
Jan. 27, 2021
Brenda Gruver, who was laid off when the pandemic hit, waited in line for food in Springettsbury Township, Pa., last month.Credit.Paul Kuehnel/York Daily Record, via Associated Press
President Biden is proposing a large relief package to deal with the continuing fallout from the coronavirus. The package is expansive, as it should be. But it is, predictably, facing demands that it be scaled back. Which, if any, of these demands have some validity?
We can discount opposition from Republican leaders who have suddenly decided, after years of enabling deficits under Trump, that federal debt is a terrible thing. Weâve seen this movie before, during the Obama years: Republicans oppose economic aid not because they believe it will fail but because they fear it might succeed, both helping Democratsâ political prospects and legitimizing an expanded role for government.