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President Obama isn't wasting any time...
Trying to accomplish the long list of goals he set for his second term. Just since his State of the Union speech, less than a week ago, he's already put forward a plan for universal preschool, called on Congress to vote on gun regulations, and now he's tackling immigration. According to USA Today, the White House is circulating a draft immigration bill, which would create a new visa for undocumented immigrants living in our nation, and shorten the path to legal residency down to eight years. The draft bill also includes more security funding, and would require businesses to utilize a new system for verifying the immigration status of new employees.
Despite the bill being very similar to the bipartisan immigration plan that came out last month, Republicans are harshly criticizing the President's plan. Florida Senator Marco Rubio said any legislation that didn't include Republican input would get no support, saying, “If actually proposed, the president's bill would be dead on arrival in Congress.” Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said the draft legislation was proof that “the president doesn't want immigration reform.” These statements are just more evidence that Republicans will vote against any legislation that President Obama puts forward, even when it's made up of their own ideas.
A spokesman for the White House said that the administration has not prepared a final bill to submit. Let's hope that Congress can pass their own version of the bill, so that they won't oppose a commonsense path to citizenship, just because the President supports it.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... How to prevent 5th graders from plotting to kill... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: How to prevent 5th graders from plotting to kill...
Need to Know: Media cover up on the plan to burn Dorner alive...- Max Blumenthal, Journalist & Author 
Screwed: Largest climate rally in U.S. history... - Tyson Slocumb, Public Citizen 
Exposed...GOP's secret plan to steal elections- Brad Friedman, The Brad Blog
The Best of the Rest...
Cruise from hell...Carnival pays no taxes- Neal Asbury, "Conscientious Equity"
Everything You Know is Wrong - Beware psychiatry's neocons- Dr. Bruce E. Levine, "Get Up, Stand Up".
Daily Take: Is privatized healthcare spreading to Greece & Spain?
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Keeping ins. co's from bankrupting sick people..- Corey S. Dubin.
Hour Two: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!
Hour Three: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!
Speech: " Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. " They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred" Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 2, section 3. " ... [The President] may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper ..." Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 2 section 2. " The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session."
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Should FB and other billionaires have to pay their fair share?- Chuck Gallagher, CEO / Author of 'Second Chances: Transforming Adversity into Opportunity'
Hour Two: How will health exchanges work?- Jay Angoff , former Director of the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight-HHS
Why can't we negotiate with Big Pharma?- Wendell Potter, former healthcare industry insider turned whistleblower / Author-Deadly Spin , former Director of the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight-HHS
How to prevent 5th graders from plotting to kill...
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
We'll have the latest on the "sequester" and what it means...plus keep you up to speed on what else is happening in Congress...
And, more on Modern Monetary Theory and why you need to know about it...I'll continue my conversation with Australian economist, Professor Steve Keen...
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Thom's Poll
Will the GOP try to shield the military from the sequester?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Meet the 102 year old face of voter suppression
Rumble - The threat of meteoroids from outer space
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Thom Hartmann on the News - February 15, 2013
Killing violates the law of love!
The F-word is back in the news!
Insurance companies shouldn't be able to bankrupt people!
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