Can anyone tell me the percentage of children of illegal immigrants who attend college? Specifically in Texas. We are arguing the HB 104 (in state tuition bill) in my government class and I need to know how many children of illegal immigrants who were not born in the US actually attend institutions of higher education....
posted on Mar 22, 2008 - 12 answers

How come they won't call Virginia for the democrats? [more inside]
posted on Nov 8, 2006 - 17 answers

How do you track U.S. federal legislation for which bill numbers -- either of the house record (H.R.) or Senate (S.) variety -- have not yet been assigned? [more inside]
posted on Apr 27, 2006 - 7 answers

What is the origin of addressing all comments in Senate speeches to the President of the Senate? Is this simply tradition or is there some parliamentary reason for this?
posted on May 23, 2005 - 4 answers

Curiosity struck and I'm looking for a year-by-year breakdown of the number of times the filibuster has been used. A chart with further breakdowns of senator, state, party, duration, cause, and whether the filibuster was ended via cloture would be even nicer. [more inside]
posted on May 17, 2005 - 7 answers

SenateFilter: Who will replace Tom Daschle as minority leader?
posted on Nov 3, 2004 - 12 answers