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The nation's biggest banks would be hit with a raft of new fees, leverage limits and other restrictions under far-reaching 'too-big-to-fail' bank legislation approved by a key congressional committee on Wednesday.

Total to Current Members of Congress since 1989: $153 million Total Lobbying Expenditures since 1998 : $674.9 million Legislation aimed at regulating the securities and investment industry is as complex as the industry itself.

Local immigrants and activists are preparing for a major push to reform the nation's immigration system.

The move comes as recognition that the 10.2 percent jobless rate which is expected to rise and remain in double-digits for much of 2010 has altered the political landscape for an immigration bill.

Beyond the noisy town hall meetings, Tea Party protests and sky-is-falling speeches characterizing much of the health care debate is a less visible, but no less intense push to broaden the face of the immigration reform movement.

Yolo County law enforcement officials stand watch on April 30 at the Gum Avenue overcrossing where Luis Gutierrez was shot and killed by Yolo deputies.

Roll Call reports that amnesty backers in the House are planning on proceeding without Republican support: Members say they are feeling newly emboldened to go their own way after the White House this month signaled a willingness to tackle the controversial issue next year.

Nov. 19, 2009: More than 60,000 people gathered in community centers, churches, restaurants, union halls, and living rooms across the United States, participating in a national telephonic town hall on immigration reform on Nov.

Asian Pacific Islanders Call to Action for Comprehensive Immigration Reform More than 16,000 people gathered together to listen in on a virtual "town hall" conference call from Representative Luis Gutierrez as he galvanized support for comprehensive immigration reform for the upcoming months.

The federal government faces " a trifecta of headaches : a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due in the months ahead, and interest rates that are sure to climb back to normal as soon as the Federal Reserve decides that the emergency has passed." Still, the NYT's Paul Krugman warns that a phantom debt menace could ...

Big banks would be required to pay more into a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. fund than smaller institutions, according to a provision that was approved by a key congressional committee on Thursday.

As the voice of a U.S. congressman crackled throughout the dimly-lighted room, the men and women sat quietly around the speakerphone, listening.

In a display of populist anger toward the Federal Reserve , a House panel voted on Thursday to let Congress carry out sweeping new oversights of the central bank's policy decisions and operations.

The latest loser in the political pandemonium over health care reform may be immigrants living in America, an estimated 24 million people likely to be bartered in order to win support in Congress from fence-sitting Democratic moderates and conservatives.

Organizers described them as immigration reform "house parties." Across the country last night, in churches, schools, immigrant support centers and private homes, backers of immigration reform gathered around telephones as Hispanic U.S. legislators laid out the strategy for pushing a reform of the immigration system in 2010.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is being blamed by Hispanic lawmakers for a proposed ban on unauthorized immigrants buying government health insurance.

Taking aim at Wall Street and the U.S. central bank, an important House committee voted Thursday to assess fees on large financial firms to pay for the failure of their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the secretive Federal Reserve.

A group of 20 township residents sat close together around a pair of cellular phones Wednesday night and listened quietly as national activists spoke on conference call about their plans to get a national immigration reform bill passed next year.

The political football that is immigration reform might finally reach an elusive end zone within a year or two, advocates of reform and immigrant rights said Thursday night in Greeley.

Some US Democrats see momentum building for an overhaul of immigration laws that would legalise millions of undocumented workers, but analysts say a crowded agenda and struggling economy may once again sink hopes for reform next year.