Trent Lott News

United States, Parents' Day is held on the fourth Sunday of every July. This was established in 1994 when President Bill Clinton signed a Congressional Resolution into law for "recognizing, uplifting, and supporting the role of parents in the rearing of children." The bill was introduced by Republican Senator Trent Lott.

The Senate today is expected to approve a bill that retailers in New Jersey and around the country say would provide the even footing they've long sought with their online competitors.

This time, as a Senate committee prepares to begin voting Thursday on a bill to boost border security and offer eventual citizenship to an estimated 11 million people living here illegally, comparable opposition has yet to surface.

As a Senate committee prepares to begin voting this week on far-reaching immigration legislation, advocates are watching warily to see whether opposition, thus far subdued, builds into the same kind of fierce backlash that shut down Congress' last attempt to remake the nation's immigration system.

This time, as a Senate committee prepares to begin voting Thursday on a bill to boost border security and offer eventual citizenship to an estimated 11 million people living here illegally, comparable opposition has yet to surface.

Not Thaddeus. At least, not so far. In a surprise, conservative Democrat Max Baucus of Montana last week announced he wouldn't seek re-election, giving up the powerful chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee.

They were welcomed with a sign that read Bienvenidos and Wilkommen, among other foreign language greetings.