06/17/2010: White House Reportedly Says Energy Bill the Top Legislative
Priority This Summer
Report indicates that the President's main focus will shift to working
toward a comprehsnsive energy bill once the Congress finishes up work on
Wall Street reform, a process that is expected to conclude this month. We
predicted earlier that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill would affect the Obama
priority see-saw game between energy bill and CIR for the rest of this
year. This report confirms that the energy
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The legislative car crash that is the Arizona immigration bill has
sparked a renewed effort at the federal level to work on immigration
reform.
President Barack Obama was expected to address the issue at a Cinco de
Mayo celebration at the White House Wednesday.
But White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs cautioned that "immigration
is a very hard issue that Congress might not finish this year."
However, Gibbs says Obama wants voters to know that immigration reform
is too important to stall on.
