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U.S. House committee passes E-Verify after two days of debate
WASHINGTON – A House committee Wednesday approved a bill to require that every business in the country use the E-Verify system to determine if prospective hires are authorized workers or undocumented immigrants.
Gosar seeks broad support for Resolution Copper land-swap bill
It’s been almost like an annual rite since 2005. An Arizona congressman introduces a doomed bill to swap land owned by Resolution Copper for federal land beneath which sits one of the world’s largest deposits of copper.
U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, of Arizona’s 1st Congressional District, introduced this year’s version, which has those who have been longtime supporters of the swap opti[...]
Jay Rhodes, former Arizona congressman, dies at 67
Former U.S. Rep. Jay Rhodes, who held the same seat in Arizona's First Congressional District that his father did before him, died in a Washington, D.C., hospital Thursday from complications following an automobile accident last year. He was 67.
Schweikert, Gosar, Quayle hold tight for committee assignments
U.S. Rep. David Schweikert says he won't get the committee assignment he wanted most, but he is still holding out for an assignment that "has something to do with numbers."
McCain says Democrats have not heard end of debate
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. John McCain says Democrats who championed the historic health care bill that passed the House haven't heard the last of the issue, predicting reprisals at the polls and in the courts. Interviewed today (March 22) on ABC's "Good Morning America," McCain repeated House Republican assertions that the transformative legislation amounts to a "government takeover" of health car[...]
US House’s scrap leather finds new life in Tucson
TUCSON - The U.S. House of Representatives is cutting down on waste. Instead of discarding thousands of pounds of leather as it usually does each year when it reupholsters furniture, the House has shipped a bunch of it to Tucson.
