Ag jobs plan added to Iraq bill

                   
idahostatesman.com     May 17, 2008            

BY MICHAEL DOYLE - Sen. Dianne Feinstein has changed her tune about using Iraq War spending bills to provide temporary legal status for illegal farm workers, something she and Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig have wanted for years. Next week, the full Senate is expected to consider an emergency... [read full story]                

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Feinstein pushes ag worker program

sacbee.com     May 15, 2008          

WASHINGTON -- California Senator Dianne Feinstein is trying to use a must-pass Iraq war spending bill being debated in Congress to advance an agricultural guest worker program she's long advocated. Feinstein sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee, which on Thursday voted 17-to-12 to add her...                

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Feinstein pushes ag worker program

idexer.com     May 16, 2008          

WASHINGTON--California Senator Dianne Feinstein is trying to use a must-pass Iraq war spending bill being debated in Congress to advance an agricultural guest worker program she's long advocated. Feinstein's measure would create a new, temporary class of agricultural workers to meet...                

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Feinstein, Lofgren Push for Immigrant Workers

civilrights.org     May 16, 2008          

04:00 PDT Washington - -- Two of California's most immigrant-dependent industries - agriculture and Silicon Valley - are pushing narrow measures through Congress in an effort to employ foreign workers at opposite ends of the labor market, people who pick vegetables and the postgraduate engineers...                

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Sessions bucks farmworker addition to Iraq funding bill

alipac.us     May 18, 2008          

Sessions bucks farmworker addition to Iraq funding bill Saturday, May 17, 2008 MARY ORNDORFF News Washington correspondent WASHINGTON - It was supposed to be a relatively quiet Friday, with no votes and most senators heading back to their home states. But Sen. Jeff Sessions' office felt like a...                

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