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The House on Thursday rejected a hard-line immigration bill — introduced by Judiciary Committee Chairman MORE (R-Va.) — after leadership postponed a second vote on a compromise measure written with centrists. The 193-231 vote came a day after MORE signed an executive order ending the controversial practice of separating children from parents who cross the border illegally. A second vote on the compromise measure has been delayed until Friday as leaders seek to rally support for it. There will also be a conferencewide meeting on immigration a

House GOP leaders in a surprise move Thursday night pushed back a vote on a compromise immigration bill until next week, underscoring the difficulty they're facing in winning votes — and how the stakes have been raised by the crisis at the border. The decision to delay the vote, which had already been postponed from Thursday to Friday, followed a two-hour conference meeting designed to brief members on the measure’s contents. Lawmakers, many of them worried about backing a measure that conservatives have described as providing amnesty to some undocumented workers, had complained that they didn

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The Brighton Democrat has hired Mara Dolan to serve as communications consultant, making her the first person to draw regular pay from his campaign this election cycle.  At-large City Councilor Michelle Wu was the latest to endorse Zakim, saying in a message to supporters that she “felt a glimmer of hope about the state of our democracy.”  Brian Herr, who was the state GOP’s nominee for Senate in 2014, said he took himself off the party rolls this week.  On Thursday, Jay Gonzalez, Democrat for governor, called into WEEI’s Kirk & Callahan.

The plan would seemingly have similarities to 2014, when the Obama administration housed about 7,000 unaccompanied children on three military bases.  The jacket’s phrasing sparked some outrage among critics and led the White House to defend the first lady’s clothing choice.  Governor Baker said that “no children have been placed in Massachusetts” as a result of the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border.  Embattled House Republican leaders are delaying a vote on compromise GOP immigration legislation until next week, and are planning chang

The plan would seemingly have similarities to 2014, when the Obama administration housed about 7,000 unaccompanied children on three military bases.  The jacket’s phrasing sparked some outrage among critics and led the White House to defend the first lady’s clothing choice.  Governor Baker said that “no children have been placed in Massachusetts” as a result of the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border.  Embattled House Republican leaders are delaying a vote on compromise GOP immigration legislation until next week, and are planning chang