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In this week's Bill Blotter, the "Redskin" mascot is considered offensive by some, as is public breast-feeding in Massachusetts, and Louisiana lawmakers address teen obesity by regulating junk food quantities in school vending machines. California Committee Bans the Term 'Redskin' as School Mascots The California Senate Education Committee passed a bill that would ban the use of the term "Redskin" in the state's public schools. The bill's sponsor, Assemblyman Jackie Goldberg, said at the hearing that the term is, for American Indians, equal to the most offensive and derogatory slurs for Asians and blacks. The bill passed both houses of the state

Bill to Broaden Immigration Law Gains in Senate

With Republicans deeply divided, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Monday to legalize the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants and ultimately to grant them citizenship, provided that they hold jobs, pass criminal background checks, learn English and pay fines and back taxes. The panel also voted to create a vast temporary worker program that would allow roughly 400,000 foreigners to come to the United States to work each year and would put them on a path to citizenship as well. The legislation, which the committee sent to the full Senate on a 12-to-6 vote, represents the most sweeping effort by Congress in

Immigration law, signed in Germany, faces fight in court

President Johannes Rau signed into law Thursday a landmark immigration law that permits an inflow of skilled workers into Germany while seeking to better assimilate those who already have arrived. The law triggered protests from opposition conservatives, who vowed to challenge it in court. The signature by Rau, a member of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democratic Party, effectively thrust the nation's 7.3 million immigrants into the forefront of the Sept. 22 election. Conservative leaders, who insist that Germany should reduce the number of new immigrants, pledged at a party convention this week to elevate immigration to a central campaign issue if

Frist, Hastert Want Immigration Law Without Felony Charges Included

The two top Republicans in Congress, confronted with internal party divisions as well as large public demonstrations, said Tuesday they intend to pass immigration legislation that does not subject illegal aliens to prosecution as felons. A written statement by House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, did not say whether they would seek legislation subjecting illegal immigrants to misdemeanor prosecution or possibly a civil penalty such as a fine. "It remains our intent to produce a strong border security bill that will not make unlawful presence in the United States a felony," the two men

Conservative opposition sees ’constitutional crisis’ Germans pass crucial law on immigration

A landmark German immigration reform narrowly cleared its final parliamentary hurdle Friday, but the conservative opposition charged that it passed only because of a "constitutional breach" of legislative procedure and vowed to challenge it in court. The bill was approved, 35 to 34, in a tumultuous vote along purely partisan lines in the upper chamber. If upheld, it would be Germany's first comprehensive immigration law. The center-left government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder portrayed the bill as allowing an increase in immigration of skilled labor to fill the needs of Germany's labor market and help it compete with other wealthy nations for