Do you think that granting legal status to immigrants will imporve the economy or put more of a drain on it?

A bipartisan Senate bill that would create a path to legal status for many of the 11.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States could reduce deficits by $175 billion over the first 10 years and by at least $700 billion in the second decade.

That's according to an analysis released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.  The CBO, working with the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, estimates that 8 million unauthorized residents would become legal in the first decade.

In addition, the report estimates the bill would boost the U.S. population by a net of 10.4 million people by 2023 and by 16 million by 2033.

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Do you think the city should ban the single-use plastic bags in order to reduce the negative impact to the enviornment?

Plastic grocery bags would become a thing of the  past in Los Angeles under an ordinance tentatively approved today by the City  Council, which will cast a final vote next week that would make the city the  largest in the nation to enact such a ban.

If given final approval, the ordinance would take effect Jan. 1 for  large stores, and six months later for smaller stores.

The council voted 11-1 in support of the ban, with Councilman Bernard  Parks casting the lone dissenting vote. Since it failed to earn unanimous  approval, the ordinance will need a second vote next week.
  Under the ban, customers would be required to provide their own re- usable bags when they visit stores, or pay 10 cents each for paper bags.

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Do you think that this is all still the result of the legacy left behind by Roger Mahony?

It will be 20 years next month since Oliver O'Grady last served as a priest in the Stockton Diocese. Yet the impact of the notorious pedophile's 22 years at five parishes remains huge — on his victims and on the diocese's finances.

To date, more than two dozen of O'Grady's victims have collected nearly $25 million in damages from the diocese and its insurance providers, including a $1.75 million settlement announced last week. That does not include an additional $500,000 scheduled to be paid over the next several years in one case, and there are two additional O'Grady lawsuits pending.

Compare that with about $7 million awarded for all other clergy abuse lawsuits against six priests and one Catholic brother, including the largest, a $3.75 million award against the Rev. Michael Kelly last year. Two more lawsuits are pending against him.

The wrong-way driver who allegedly caused a nine-vehicle pileup on the 14 Freeway in the Antelope Valley has been arrested, the California Highway Patrol said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The FBI has reached a milestone in its 63-year-old program of pursuing its ``Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.''

It has added the 499th and 500th names of fugitives to have appeared over the years on its regularly updated list.

The FBI says citizen cooperation has led to 155 of the fugitives being apprehended or their bodies found.

The two new additions are Jose Manuel Garcia Guevara, who allegedly murdered a 26-year-old woman in the presence of her 4-year-old stepson in Lake Charles, La., in 2008; and Walter Lee Williams, a former California professor wanted for the alleged sexual exploitation of children and traveling abroad to engage in illicit sex acts with children.

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Do you think that restraining orders are effective at keeping dangerous people away from their victims?

A Los Angeles elementary school teacher is accused of chasing down and fatally stabbing his estranged wife, months after she petitioned for a restraining order, and hours after she informed police he had violated that order.

Michael Rodney Kane, 46, was arrested Monday in San Bernardino County for allegedly killing his wife, Michelle Ann Kane, 43.

The arrest came after Michelle Kane was stabbed to death in the middle of a quiet San Fernando Valley neighborhood block.  In her court filings, she alleged multiple instances of abuse by her husband in front of their two young children and said he'd threatened to kill her multiple times since she began divorce proceedings in December.

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The naked acrobat who allegedly accosted several passengers in a bizarre, violent incident caught on video at a San Francisco BART station last month was rearrested Monday and charged with several felony and misdemeanor counts.

Yeiner Alberto Perez Garizabalo, 24, was taken into custody in San Francisco around noon by district attorney's investigators with help from immigration officials, said Alex Bastian, a district attorney spokesman.

The Berkeley acrobat and stilt walker, who friends say goes by the shortened Yeiner Perez, was originally arrested May 10 after he allegedly ran naked through the 16th Street Mission Station and grabbed several passengers, injuring at least one. He also did flips, handstands and splits on BART equipment and kicked a BART employee several times.

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National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander told a House committee Tuesday that more than 50 terror threats throughout the world have been disrupted with the assistance of two secret surveillance programs that were recently disclosed by former defense contractor Edward Snowden.

More than 10 of the plots targeted the U.S. homeland, Alexander told the House Intelligence Committee, including a plot to attack the New York Stock Exchange.

"I would much rather be here today debating this,'' Alexander told lawmakers, referring to the programs' value, "than explaining why we were unable to prevent another 9/11'' attack.

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What side of the generational divide do you fall on when it comes to the immigration debate?

While a small majority of Americans are in favor of the immigration bill currently before the U.S. Senate, according to a new national poll the old and young don't see eye to eye on the issue.

And a CNN/ORC International survey also indicates that more than six in ten say border security rather than a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants should be the bigger priority.

The poll's Tuesday morning release comes as a bill backed by the bipartisan 'Gang of Eight' senators faces more legislative hurdles. The measure would offer a 13-year path to eventual citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the country. If the legislation passes through the Democratic Senate, it would face an uncertain future in the Republican dominated House of Representatives.

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