Jeff Sessions

Union of federal workers opposes immigration bill

2013-05-20 20:46:00

WASHINGTON — Senators pushed forward Monday with changes to a sweeping immigration overhaul over the objections of a union of immigration officers that announced its opposition to the bill. The legislation, written by a bipartisan group of...

Senators press forward on immigration bill

2013-05-20 12:03:00

WASHINGTON – Senators are pushing forward on changes to a sweeping immigration overhaul, preparing to vote the bill out of the Judiciary Committee before Congress adjourns for the Memorial Day recess. The bill largely has withstood the assaults of...

Senators tighten student visa rules in immigration bill

2013-05-14 20:57:00

The Senate Judiciary Committee amended the sweeping immigration bill Tuesday to tighten student visa rules in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. The committee, which is trying to get through the 844-page bill by the end of the week, also...

Boomers need immigrants

2013-05-12 00:00:00

The Senate Judiciary Committee took up comprehensive immigration reform late last week. And, as expected, opponents are already rushing to derail it, arguing that any bill that legalizes the vast majority of undocumented immigrants in the United States...

L.A. worries about immigration reform's cost to taxpayers

2013-05-12 08:37:00

As Congress takes up immigration reform, Los Angeles County officials are voicing concerns that local taxpayers will be "left holding the bag" to pay for the brunt of healthcare and other services for the multitudes of immigrants who apply for...

L.A. County officials worried about costs of immigration overhaul

2013-05-11 17:05:00

WASHINGTON — Few regions will absorb the impact of future immigration reforms more than Los Angeles County, home to an estimated 1.1 million people in the country illegally, one-tenth of the nation's total. As the Senate Judiciary Committee...

Immigration reform divides Republicans

2013-05-08 18:37:00

WASHINGTON — The immigration reform bill crafted by a bipartisan group of senators has deeply split the Republican minority even as lawmakers prepare to take the first votes on the proposal Thursday. Alabama's Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, a...

Lindsey Graham blames immigration woes on south-of-the-border 'hell holes'

2013-05-09 17:21:00

The GOP’s effort to woo Latinos may have suffered a minor setback Thursday, thanks to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Republicans have been trying to improve their standing with the fastest-growing voting bloc ever since last year's election, when...

Immigration bill survives first day of debate in Senate committee

2013-05-09 20:25:00

WASHINGTON — After eight hours of debate, the bipartisan Senate immigration bill emerged mostly intact Thursday, despite Republican-led efforts to make substantial alterations in the first of what is certain to be many long committee meetings to...

Many amendments, few changes to immigration overhaul

2013-05-09 13:26:00

WASHINGTON -- Senators on Thursday began the arduous task of going through some 300 proposed amendments to the delicately constructed bipartisan immigration bill. By lunch, they had disposed of 17. With a packed audience of many pro-immigration...

Immigration proposal, and its small GOP opposition, is unveiled

2013-04-18 20:27:00

— Moments before a group of eight senators unveiled a sweeping bipartisan immigration overhaul Thursday, a smaller group launched the GOP opposition. Led by Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the Republican push-back emerged as a muted affair....

Senate rejects gun background check measure

2013-04-17 19:34:00

WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...

Solicitor General Elena Kagan listens to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) during her second day of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on her nomination to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court . President Obama nominated Kagan to fill the vacancy created when Justice John Paul

2010-06-29 00:00:00

Ranking member of the committee Jeff Sessions , at right, talks with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse during a markup and vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

2009-07-28 14:06:25

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and committee chairman Sen.Patrick Leahy (D-VT) look on as US Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor answers questions on Wednesday during the third day of confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC .

2009-07-15 00:00:00