“In the speech that the president gave to Congress, he didn’t propose any new taxes. The speech was $250 billion in tax cuts, $250 billion in spending over a period of two to three years. It focused mostly on a rather innovative set of payroll tax cuts and incentives to hire people.

“I personally don’t believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending until we get this economy off the ground. If we cut government spending, which I normally would be very inclined to do when the deficit’s this big, with interest rates already near zero you can’t get the benefits out of it.

“So what I’d like to see them do is come up with a bipartisan approach, starting with the payroll tax cuts because they have the biggest return."

President Obama repeatedly asked members of Congress to pass the American Jobs Act last week. But when no Democrat filed Obama’s bill after he presented it to Congress, a conservative congressman swiped the name for his own legislation.

The American Jobs Act introduced in the House of Representatives looks quite different from the version President Obama outlined in his speech to Congress. Instead of hiking taxes on working Americans to pay for another stimulus, Rep. Louie Gohmert’s (R-TX) legislation offers a tax cut.

South Carolina's House of Representatives approved on Tuesday a comprehensive illegal immigration bill that would allow police to ask for citizenship documentation from anyone they stop or detain for another reason.

It would also allow police to hold a person who fails to provide documentation until their citizenship status is determined.

The Republican-controlled House on Tuesday night voted 69-43 to approve a Senate bill and added amendments. The Senate must concur. If it does not, a conference committee will reconcile the two houses' differences.

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is expected to sign the bill.

OMAHA, Neb. - Gov. Dave Heineman is targeting illegal immigrants in a proposal that would require state agencies to verify any resident applying for state benefits is in the United States legally.

Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon proposed legislation targeting businesses that hire illegal immigrants in response to a case against a lake area developer who evaded payroll taxes on undocumented workers he had hired. Just days after condominium devel

Proposed legislation to curb illegal immigration has stirred opposition by immigrant advocacy groups, who argue that such legislation “will increase anti-immigrant fervor and division in Rhode Island.” State Rep. Peter G. Palumbo, D-Cranston, and Sen.

The omnibus Consolidated Appropriations bill includes a little-known provision that guts the major provisions of the Secure Fence Act of 2006. This provision -- buried on page 123 of Division E of the Consolidated Appropriations Act - contradicts the Secu

Money won't be released to the department for fencing and other border protection until the consultation takes place, which Rodriguez pushed through in the House.

Congress last night passed a giant new spending bill that undermines current plans for a U.S.-Mexico border fence, allowing the Homeland Security Department to build a single-tier barrier rather than the two-tier version that has worked in California. The

Republican presidential hopeful Duncan Hunter is blasting a Democrat-sponsored bill that would eliminate the requirement passed by Congress to build a double-layered fence covering 854 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border.

A Republican senator plans to introduce a bill today during the General Assembly's special session that would bar illegal aliens from getting driver's licenses in Maryland. Sen. E.J. Pipkin, Eastern Shore Republican, said he will introduce the measure wit

A week after dozens of illegal immigrants were arrested using fraudulent ID badges to access high-security areas of O'Hare Airport, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) on Tuesday proposed legislation to require workers in all U.S. airports' secure areas to be citizen

Legislation to give illegal immigrants reduced college tuition and U.S. citizenship will be slipped into a Health and Human Services bill to avoid the strong bipartisan challenge that has prevented it from becoming law for years. Since 2001 immigration ad

Social-service advocacy groups are fighting legislation to require Pennsylvanians to provide proof of U.S. citizenship before receiving government benefits because they believe the bill would deny critical services to the poor, the elderly and domestic-vi

OKLAHOMA CITY -- An immigration reform bill that evoked strong emotions on both sides passed the Senate Monday on a 41-6 vote. "This is a good day for Oklahoma, and a good day for America," said Carol Helm, director of the anti-immigration group called IR

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday as president she would push an immigration bill with a path to legalization that unites families. "We've got to deal with immigration to be sure that we're going to get back to doing what is right and smart in Am

Pat McDonough, a Republican who represents portions of Baltimore and Harford counties, is making a new push to make it more difficult for illegal workers to stay here. He told ABC-2 News, “We are in probably the worst state in the nation when it comes t

SAN DIEGO -- County supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to send President Bush a $101 million bill to reimburse county taxpayers for what a county-commissioned study stated illegal immigrants cost them last year. Supervisors said they had taken similar

A Republican-sponsored bill would strip up to 50 percent of Homeland Security funding from cities that bar police officers from asking about a person's immigration status during routine encounters. Minneapolis and St. Paul are among more than 30 major cit

An elderly Louisiana couple remains in danger of losing their home in a bizarre battle over an unpaid $1.63 tax bill the pair never received.

"You know, I've heard all the rhetoric -- you've heard it, too -- about how this is amnesty. Amnesty means that you've got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that," Bush said

Loophole 1 – Legal Status Before Enforcement: Amnesty benefits do not wait for the “enforcement trigger.” After filing an application and waiting 24 hours, illegal aliens will receive full “probationary benefits,” complete with the ability to le

If they'd really wanted to help, as opposed to braying about their own wonderfulness, they would have created not one big bill but a series of smaller bills, each of which would do one big clear thing, the first being to close the border. Once that was do