Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has filed an amendment to the Gang of Eight bill that would allow gay Americans with foreign-born partners to sponsor them for green cards just like heterosexual couples can.
Because in the eight years after Bill Clinton left office, his policies were reversed.
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But at least five of the eight senators writing the bill have backed biometric ID cards in the past.
But a surprising number of Democrats abstained or voted against the bill (eight in total) leaving the number voting for cloture at 52, eight votes short.
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Washington (CNN) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" immigration reform bill on Tuesday, sending the measure to the Senate floor for consideration and giving the bill's backers their first major legislative victory.
David Hare, meanwhile, has been writing two more Page Eight television plays, with Bill Nighy as MI5 officer Johnny Worricker.
The last talking filibuster was by Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, who spoke for more than eight hours against a tax bill in 2010.
It took eight months for his Alternative Medicine bill to reach floor debates.
Mrs Winterton's Termination of Pregnancy (Counselling and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill is the third abortion-related Ten Minute Rule Bill to be introduced in eight months - all have which have been rejected by MPs.
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The final vote was 52-48, eight votes short, bringing consideration of the bill to an end.
The bill will see Scotland's eight police forces and eight fire services merged into two single national bodies.
The bill would see Scotland's eight police forces and eight fire services merged into two single national bodies.
After Bill Clinton left office, for eight years we tried giving big tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans.
The bill's backers said the eight-year period would give spaceship developers more freedom to experiment and also allow them to generate revenue by taking on passengers, as long as those passengers knew exactly what they were getting into.
If Bush is campaigning as the champion of the status quo sentries of Washington, McCain is trying to turn them all out in the street and build a whole new bigger house, just as Bill Clinton did for the Democrats eight years ago.
"Eight senators from seven states have worked on this bill to serve as a starting point for discussion about fixing our broken immigration system, " Rubio said.
Without the backing of the eight Liberal members of the ruling council, the bill's passage was in doubt, and Mr Tung had no choice but to delay it.
Eight million Americans were educated under the original GI Bill.
The new law, written into the financial rescue bill, extends the 30% credit for eight years and, more importantly, eliminates the cap.
Fifty-eight Democratic senators out of 58 Democratic senators support this bill.
In the House, "it's going to be a lift, " says Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a member of a bipartisan group developing a bill expected to be similar to the Gang of Eight's.
Twenty-eight Democrats and one Independent joined the 211 Republicans who approved the bill in the House vote.
Schumer, McCain and their "Gang of Eight" already missed a self-imposed deadline to have their bill ready in March, but Schumer said he hoped that this week, it will happen.
During day eight of committee of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill on 7 February 2012, Lord Ramsbotham said 18-25 year-olds had been "disregarded" in the prison service "for too long".
Altogether 133 Tories opposed the bill, along with 15 Labour MPs, four Lib Dems, eight Democratic Unionists and an independent.
He made small talk with some of the 18 fighters on the bill before joining the crowd to watch the fights taking place inside an eight-sided ring surrounded by a chain-link fence.
In the House, 67 Republicans and eight Democrats bucked party leaders to oppose the measure after provisions were dropped from the bill that would have barred states from issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants and limited appeals for immigrants facing deportation.
On July 15, 1996, President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order No. 13010, in which he identified eight infrastructure systems critical to the nation's survival: telecommunications, electric power systems, oil and gas storage, transportation, banking and finance, storage and transportation, water supply systems, and emergency services (including medical, police, fire and rescue, and continuity of government).
In this fall's bank bailout bill, a provision was added to renew many of these tax credits for eight years--but tax credits for wind-produced energy were extended only through 2009.
Now, Colorado, for eight years, we had a President who shared these beliefs -- his name was Bill Clinton. (Applause.) And his economic plan asked the wealthiest Americans to pay a little bit more so we could reduce our deficit and invest in the skills and ideas of our people.
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