Social Issues

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Voters line up in the dark to beat the 7 p.m. deadline to cast their ballots at a polling station in Miami on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. House Republicans, still smarting from their poor showing among Hispanics in the presidential election, are planning a vote in late November 2012 on immigration legislation that would both expand visas for foreign science and technology students and make it easier for those with green cards to bring their immediate families to the United States. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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Brian Conklin (far right), a regional campaign director for President Obama, briefs volunteers about registering new voters prior before they canvass a heavily Latino neighborhood on Friday, June 29, 2012, in Phoenix. Across the country, both political parties have been courting the Latino vote, the nation's fastest-growing minority group. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Volunteers for President Obama's re-election campaign are briefed before they head out to register new voters in a heavily Latino neighborhood on Friday, June 29, 2012, in Phoenix. Across the country both political parties have been courting the Latino vote, the nation's fastest-growing minority group. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (right), Kentucky Republican, confers with Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, as they wait with other senators for the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (center) gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. With him (from left) are Sens. John Thune, John Barrasso, Jerry Moran and John Cornyn. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (left), with House Speaker John A. Boehner, speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, following a meeting with President Obama to discuss the economy and the deficit. Mr. Obama's re-election has stiffened Democrats' spine against cutting popular benefit programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Their new resolve could become as big a hurdle to reaching a deal for skirting economy-crippling tax increases and spending cuts in January as Republicans' resistance to raising tax rates on the wealthy. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, talks to reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (right), Nevada Democrat, and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, confer on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, March 6, 2012, while awaiting the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Sen. John F. Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, is at center; Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, is at right; Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr., Pennsylvania Democrat, is second from right. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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“You either engage them or you become an irrelevant party and movement. We already cannot win California and New York. If we continue like this, it’s [next] going to be Florida, Texas, Arizona. That’s it — Republicans will never win another national election.” - Alfonso Aguilar, a Bush administration official who is now the executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles (The Washington Times)

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“He’s going to break the rules to change the rules, which is a wonderful way to start the new Congress.” - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican (Associated Press)

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“We cannot afford to educate these foreign graduates in the U.S. and then send them back home to work for our competitors. For America to remain the world’s economic leader, we must have access to the world’s best talent.” - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, the Texas Republican who wrote the bill. (Associated Press)