Each year, Washington awards visas to immigrants who bring skills and qualifications prized by high-tech companies. This is an eminently sensible policy, since highly trained immigrants add greatly to the nation’s stock of human capital and as a group, they have a high propensity to start companies of their own. That creates more jobs for [...]
Obama Administration Pushing UN Gun Control Senator Moran Bill Would Cut Funding of UN Small Arms Treaty  Kansas Senator Jerry Moran introduced legislation to prohibit the Obama administration from negotiating away our gun rights as part of the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The ATT is a backdoor attempt to impose massive restrictions on U.S. [...]
You might think, in an election year in which immigration will be a political football, that there couldn’t possibly be bipartisan agreement on fixing any part of the current immigration system. You would be wrong. There is one area—expanding the number of visas given to highly skilled foreigners, particularly those who learned math and science [...]
Wabaunsee County beef rancher Barb Downey applauded Friday a decision by federal regulators to abandon proposed restrictions on children under 16 working on American farms. The U.S. Department of Labor ended months of controversy by pulling the plug on prohibitions applicable to children operating power-driven equipment, working with tobacco, riding horses to round up livestock [...]
A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves. The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on [...]
With the blessing of top Republican leaders, the Senate Appropriations Committee gave quick approval Thursday to spending allocations for the coming year—consistent with the August debt deal but also significantly higher than the levels set by the House GOP for domestic programs. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), also a [...]
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