Congress

Obama Pushes Congress On Immigration, Split Emerges

(Reuters) - Just over a week into his second term, President Barack Obama took his fight for immigration reform to the West on Tuesday and pushed Congress to quickly find a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented residents.

Assault Weapons Ban Announced In Congress; Faces Uphill Battle

(Reuters) - A top Democratic lawmaker tried on Thursday to revive a U.S. assault-weapons ban, riding a wave of support for gun control after the killing of 20 children and six adults at a school in Connecticut last month. Senator Dianne Feinstein and several other Democrats said they were introducing a bill to ban semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips. It faces stiff opposition in Congress as well as from the National Rifle Association, the main U.S. lobby for gun manufacturers, and from many Americans.

Obama, Congress set for one last effort on "fiscal cliff"

President Barack Obama is due back in Washington early Thursday for a final effort to negotiate a deal with Congress to avert or at least postpone the "fiscal cliff" of tax increases and government spending cuts set to begin next week.

Mexican Labor Reform Hits Hurdle in Congress

Mexico's efforts to pass the biggest reform of its labor laws in four decades hit a hurdle on Tuesday when the Senate sent a bill back to the lower house of Congress to try and open up trade unions to more scrutiny, potentially stalling the legislation.

Mexico's new rulers win one more Congress seat in final result

Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its Green Party allies will have 241 of 500 seats in the lower house of Congress, one more than originally projected after the July 1 election, final results obtained by Reuters on Wednesday showed.

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