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President Postures for Immigration Reform
BY ANDREW HENRY N
ow that an immigra- tion-reform deal appears
likely, pundits are clamoring over who will gain the most politically. The winner, they predict, is . . . Barack Obama. Even though he has not been participating in the House or Senate deal-making, it is Pres- ident Obama who is expected to get the most credit. Pundits say it will appear
Obama succeeded once again where his predecessors failed. As Southern Methodist University political science professor Cal Jillson tells The Hill: “If the administration were able to get an immigration bill that looked anything like comprehensive immi- gration reform after President Bush had failed on it, President Clinton failed on it, every president back to Reagan had failed, it would be a big deal.” Presidents, it seems, tend to
PUBLIC OPINION Obama is doing a great job of taking credit for immigration policy. Here a newly minted citizen holds a certificate and an Obama cutout.
bask in the glow of whatever break- throughs occur, even those handed to them by Congress. The White House is hoping a win
on immigration will help heal the pain from the sequestration battle. Obama will likely continue his speeches urg- ing reform, cementing his position.
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Record High Unemployment Continues
BY LISA BARNES A
jobs report by the head of the Congressional Budget
Offi ce, Doug Elmendorf, brought both good news and bad news. Elmendorf noted that the job-
less rate has been over 7.5 percent for four years now — the longest such stretch for unemployment since Franklin Delano Roosevelt presided in the Oval Offi ce. The good news, he says in his
March report, is that thanks to a loose money policy and an uptick in real estate and the stock mar- ket, the U.S. economy is fi nally on the mend. More bad news, he adds, is that President Barack Obama’s stimulus programs have run their course, and the economy is recovering at such a glacial pace he estimates that “it will take four more years to get back close to full employment.” More stimulus programs, Republicans say, will only exac- erbate the problem.
Carly Fiorina: Obama is mired in “politics of the worst sort.”
Elliot Abrams: Obama’s response to Syria will dominate the Middle East.
Fmr. Amb. Andrew Young: War is not the answer to Middle East challenges.
Cathy McMorris- Rodgers: Republicans need to modernize policies.
Mike Huckabee: Republican Party could pivot on gay marriage.
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