The report responds to lawmakers, mainly Republicans, who have argued that federal authorities must do much more to strengthen enforcement before Congress can consider any legalization for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.
The good news was already "baked in," an analyst tells Reuters: U.S. stock index futures fell Thursday as investors digested a deal agreed by lawmakers in Washington a day earlier to reopen the federal government and raise the debt ceiling in order to avoid a debt default.
Only recently have many lawmakers begun to give Snowden credit for kickstarting the debate.
As recently as last year, lawmakers asked the Pentagon to phase JIEDDO out of existence entirely.
But its lack of leverage in Congress has long been Obama's achilles heel, and lawmakers from both parties now argue they should have a say in the alleviation of sanctions that were imposed by the legislature in the first place.
Any push by the Vatican on climate change could prove politically challenging for conservative Catholic lawmakers in the US who have denied the veracity of climate change science and fought against regulations to curb greenhouse gas emissions, including the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner.
The expansion of Russian state media and its increasingly anti-Western content has prompted European Union lawmakers to propose creating a joint Russian-language television channel to provide an alternative source of information.
But the aide, who requested anonymity in order to discuss a swiftly moving process, said the Senate has no time to convince the House to do anything else on surveillance: "The House will be gone by lunchtime tomorrow," with lawmakers rushing to airports to return to their constituents for a legislative holiday that will last until after the scheduled expiration of Section 215.
With the war on drugs slowing, the industry has taken up immigration as a profit center: Companies contributed to the campaigns of 30 of the 36 lawmakers behind Arizona's "show your papers" law.
Then she refused to answer lawmakers' further questions, citing her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself.
He added that lawmakers were also concerned about internal enemies stirring unrest.
