Weekly Diaspora: DREAM Act Could be First Step to Reform

By: Thursday September 16, 2010 8:37 am

After months of intense debate over the Obama administration’s efforts to revamp our immigration system, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has made a decisive, though piecemeal, move on immigration reform by adding the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors (DREAM) Act as an amendment to the defense authorization bill.

Senate Committee Hearing on BP Oil Disaster

By: Tuesday May 11, 2010 9:55 am

Even before the Senate Committee questioned the executives from BP, Transocean and Halliburton, the Senators’ questions of the setup panel inadvertently revealed they are as much a part of the problem as the companies they’re trying to nail with responsibility.

My Email to Senator Bob Menendez

By: Wednesday January 20, 2010 12:31 pm

Menendez sent me a form-email saying he would not “sugar-coat” the loss in MA, so I decided to give him a little more non-coated piece of my mind.

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