Sources June 2012

June 28, 2012: Federal Policies Shame Us by Encouraging Migrant Workers

1. Homeland Security. Secretary Napolitano Announces Deferred Action Process for Young People Who Are Low Enforcement Priorities. June 15, 2012. http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/20120612-napolitano-announces-deferred-action-process-for-young-people.shtm, retrieved June 28, 2012.

2. United States Department of Labor. Strengthening Our Commitment to Protect Vulnerable Workers. Secretary Hilda Solis. June 11, 2012. http://social.dol.gov/blog/strengthening-our-commitment-to-protect-vulnerable-workers/, retrieved June 25, 2012.

3. The White House. Office of the Press Secretary. Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform. July 1, 2010. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-comprehensive-immigration-reform, retrieved June 26, 2012.

4. Homeland Security. Op. cit.

5. United States Department of Labor. Breaking the barriers that prevent workers from fair wages – And you can help. June 14, 2012. http://social.dol.gov/blog/breaking-the-barriers-that-prevent-workers-from-fair-wages-%E2%80%93-and-you-can-help/, retrieved June 27, 2012.

June 24, 2o12: Can You Afford Medicaid Fraud Under the Health Care Law?

1. Office of Population Affairs. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Affordable Care Act. http://www.hhs.gov/opa/affordable-care-act/, retrieved June 23, 2012.

2. United States Government Accountability Office. Department of Health and Human Services. Opportunities for Financial Savings and Program Improvements in Medicare and Medicaid Remain. Why GAO Did This Study. May 9, 2012.

3. United States Government Accountability Office. What GAO Found. Op. cit.

4. United States Government Accountability Office. Medicare and Medicaid Fraud, Waste, and Abuse. Effective Implementation of Recent Laws and Agency Actions Could Help Reduce Improper Payments. What GAO Found. March 9, 2011.

5. U.S. Government Accountability Office. Investigations of Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse – Improvements Needed. May 23, 1977. http://www.gao.gov/products/HRD-77-19, retrieved June 24, 2012.

June 17, 2012: Why Americans Are Owed  Unprecedented Job Creation This Summer

1. The White House. Office of the Press Secretary. Remarks by the President on Immigration. June 15, 2012. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/15/remarks-president-immigration, retrieved June 16, 2012.

2. The White House. Office of the Press Secretary. Weekly Address: Ending the Stalemate in Washington. June 16, 2012. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/15/weekly-address-ending-stalemate-washington, retrieved June 16, 2012.

June 14, 2012: Do We Owe Public Sector Workers a Guaranteed Salary?

1. The White House. Office of the Press Secretary. Weekly Address: Congress Must Act to Keep our Teachers on the Job. June 9, 2012. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/09/weekly-address-congress-must-act-keep-our-teachers-job, retrieved June 12, 2012.

June 10, 2012: Is Social Upheaval the Payoff for Democratic Political Rhetoric?

1. Congressional Progressive Caucus. Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Slam Latest Chapter in Republican War on Women. May 16, 2012. http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=61&sectiontree=5,61&itemid=580, retrieved June 10, 2012.

2. Congressional Progressive Caucus. Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs to Support State and Local Governments Across the Country to Get Money Out of Politics. June 6, 2012. http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/ index.cfm?sectionid=64&parentid=6&sectiontree=6,64&itemid=585, retrieved June 10, 2012.

3. The White House. Office of the Press Secretary.  Weekly Address: Congress Must Act to Keep our Teachers on the Job. June 9, 2012. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/09/weekly-address-congress-must-act-keep-our-teachers-job, retrieved June 10, 2012.

June 8, 2012: Seven Reasons to Endorse the Idea of Illegal Immigrants Voting

1. Committee on House Administration. House Administration Democrats Laud Ruling Against Florida Voter Registration Suppression Law. Gregory Abbott. June 1, 2012. http://democrats.cha.house.gov/press-release/house-adminitration-democrats-laud-ruling-against-florida-voter-registration.

June 7, 2012: A Jobless America and the Middle Class Poor. Step Up, GOP.

1. United States Department of Labor. Statement of U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on October employment numbers. November 6, 2009. http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/opa/opa20091377.htm, retrieved June 5, 2012.

2. United States Department of Labor. Statement of Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on November employment numbers. December 4, 2009.  http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/opa/opa20091508.htm, retrieved June 5, 2012.

June 3, 2012: Why No Effort to Identify and Report Illegal Workers?

1. The White House. Office of the Press Secretary. Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform in El Paso, Texas. May 10, 2011. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/10/remarks-president-comprehensive-immigration-reform-el-paso-texas, retrieved June 3, 2012.

2. Homeland Security. Secretary Napolitano’s Remarks on Smart Effective Border Security and Immigration Enforcement. October 5, 2011. http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/speeches/20111005-napolitano-remarks-border-strategy-and-immigration-enforcement.shtm, retrieved June 3, 2012.

3. Homeland Security. Secretary Napolitano Announces Launch of E-Verify Self Check. March 21, 2011. http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_130071254 8397.shtm, retrieved June 3, 2012.

June 1, 2012: Americans Are Not to Blame for Savagery in the Muslim World

1. U.S. Senator John McCain. Statement by Senators McCain, Lieberman and Graham on Syria. April 19, 2012. http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index. cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=cbba0a78-93de-6e45-8ae3-621187360b78, retrieved May 31, 2012.

2. Ibid.

3. U.S. Senator John McCain. Statement by Senator John McCain on Syria. May 27, 2012. http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction= PressOffice.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=9184d24c-a078-e373-de96-5b002c8d4321, retrieved May 31, 2012.