The new bill would contemplate a 10-year wait for undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. before they could get a green card allowing them permanent residency, senators have said.
"I think everybody's so worried about saying something wrong that becomes permanent," said Senator Lamar Alexander, a kind-of-funny two-time Republican presidential candidate from Tennessee.
In announcing a special election in October to find a permanent replacement for Senator Frank Lautenberg, who died on Monday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie runs the risk of appearing to be trying to have it both ways.
Murdoch hoped that the two-year waiver on cross-ownership agreed with the FCC might become permanent, but in 1987 Senator Edward Kennedy slipped a late-night amendment on an appropriations bill resolution that had the effect of killing the deal.
Appointed by Robert Stevens, Army secretary under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, to be a "permanent liaison" with the senator, Mr. Adams wrote in his memoirs that he understood his role was to seek a friendly, even "fawning" relationship with McCarthy.
WASHINGTON — The political ripples from the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster spread in the capital on Thursday as six West Coast senators proposed a permanent ban on drilling in the Pacific and another group tried to raise oil company liability in a spill to $10 billion from the current $75 million.
According to the senators on the Permanent Subcommitte on Investigations, Apple transferred offshore into low-tax countries the economic rights to its intellectual property - its valuable and usually patentable knowhow - with the result that it avoided around $10bn £6.5bnn) of US tax every year (what the senators characterise as $44bn, or £29bn, of US tax avoidance over the past four years).
Having lost an eye in local amateur hockey, he was persuaded, despite the threat of permanent blindness, to join the Senators.
"Pretty soft," is how Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who heads the Senate's permanent subcommittee on investigations, characterized the settlement in an interview on Friday.
Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat and chairman of the Senate's permanent subcommittee on investigations, responded, "I find that disturbing, to put it mildly".
