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03/12/10 President Barack Obama on Thursday assured immigration advocates frustrated by the wait for a promised overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that he remains committed to fixing a system he has said is broken. What remains unclear is whether Congress will send him a bill this year. |
03/12/10 WASHINGTON -- A pair of influential senators presented President Barack Obama with a three-page blueprint for a bipartisan agreement to overhaul the nation's immigration system, but the proposal's viability is threatened by politics surrounding the health care debate. |
03/17/10 Obama Meets With 14 Key Senators on Climate Change Legislation. President Barack Obama convened a bipartisan group of 14 key Senators at the White House to discuss prospects for passing climate change and clean energy legislation this year. |
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03/19/10 Joseph J. Zilber - the son of Russian immigrants who grew up above the family's north side Milwaukee grocery store and went on to become a real estate tycoon and, in his later years, one of the city's biggest philanthropists - died Friday morning at the age of 92. |
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03/19/10 WASHINGTON DC -- Congressman Denny Rehberg sponsored a bill to give relief to thousands of Montana cabin owners facing massive fee increases. |
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03/20/10 The first ticket to the round of 16 will be punched today when Villanova tussles with Saint Mary's. They'll be followed by a couple of upset-minded teams trying to baffle the experts: 13th-seeded Murray State takes on fifth-seeded Butler, and 14th seed Ohio University plays No. 6 seed Tennessee. |
03/20/10 New Mexico and Washington have tipped off from the Shark Tank in San Jose, where Steve Alford's Lobos are trying to match Murray State with its 31st win. |
03/20/10 Matt Howard, an 80-percent foul shooter, missed the second of two free throws for Butler, and Murray State raced downcourt with a chance to tie the game. The Racers got the ball in the hands of Isaiah Canaan, a freshman, and he dribbled around as if he were lost. |
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03/20/10 Kansas coach Bill Self said that Northern Iowa is one of the best defensive teams he's seen in quite a while, and the observation is playing out. The Panthers led 19-12 with under 12 minutes to go in the first half. |
03/20/10 Bill Self begged for a timeout, as if he were asking for mercy, after Ali Farokhmanesh hit again from about 15 feet to give Northern Iowa a 33-24 lead over the No. 1 overall seed. The Panthers are 6 of 11 from beyond the arc and shooting 52 percent from the field. |
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03/16/10 A subsidiary of ConocoPhillips Co., has agreed to pay $588,000 to help compensate the public for environmental harm caused by the October 2004 crude oil spill into Puget Sound's Dalco Passage near Tacoma. |
03/15/10 Polar Tankers Inc., a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips Co., has agreed to pay $588,000 to help compensate the public for environmental harm caused by the October 2004 crude oil spill into Puget Sound's Dalco Passage near Tacoma.The payment would come under a proposed settlement agreement or consent decree filed this week in U.S. District Court, Western Washington Division involving Polar Tankers and ... |
03/15/10 The state Department of Ecology today announced a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips will pay $588,000 to compensate the public for the environmental harm caused by the October 2004 crude oil spill into Puget Sound's Dalco Passage near Tacoma. |
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