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Appleman.
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Latter Part of 2017
- Dec.
13,
2017 - House-Senate tax reform conference committee meets.
- Dec. 13,
2017 - Immigrant
Youth
Open
"Dream Act Central"
on the National Mall.
- Dec.
8-9,
2017 - Final meeting of
Democratic National Committee's Unity Reform Commission.
- Dec. 7,
2017 - We
Belong Together's "Dream for the Holidays" Campaign.
- Dec. 6, 2017 - Rally to Defend Our Immigrant
Families.
- Dec.
6,
2017 - Republican
congressmen call for an investigation into the FBI's Clinton email
investigation.
- Nov.
15,
2017 - A large
protest against the Republican tax plan.
- Nov.
15, 2017 - Senate Finance Committee mark up of the Tax Cuts and
Jobs Act.
- Nov.
15, 2017 - A handful of House Democrats announce articles of
impeachment against President Trump.
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Two major themes as 2017 drew to a close were...
Republicans' success in ramming
through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
and
immigrant activists' well
organized push for a clean DREAM Act. by year's end.
early 2018
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