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WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- The foreign-born population in the United States numbered 34.2 million in 2004, accounting for 12 percent of the country's total population, figures released by the Census Bureau on Tuesday showed. The number of foreign-born population was 2.3 percent higher than that in 2003. Of the foreign-born population, 53 percent were born in Latin America, 25 percent in Asia, 14 percent in Europe and the remaining 8 percent in other regions of the world, such as Africa and Oceania. Second-generation Americans, which are natives with one or both parents born in a foreign country, numbered 30.4...

Hatch, who has known Schwarzenegger for at least a decade, introduced the Equal Opportunity to Govern Amendment in July 2003. It would allow people who have been citizens for 20 years to serve as president. Schwarzenegger was naturalized in September 1983. In October 2003, four days before California's recall election that made Schwarzenegger governor, the Utah senator said in a speech in Washington that he could see Schwarzenegger as president. "If he turns out to be a tremendous leader and he proves to everybody in this country that he's totally dedicated to this country as an American," Hatch said, "we...

< THIS SEARCH THIS DOCUMENT GO TO Next Hit Forward New Bills Search Prev Hit Back HomePage Hit List Best Sections Help Contents Display GPO's PDF Display Congressional Record References Bill Summary & Status Printer Friendly Display - 1,415 bytes.[Help] XML Display[Help] Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to permit persons who are not natural-born citizens of the United States, but who have been citizens of the United States... (Introduced in House) HJ 2 IH 109th CONGRESS 1st Session H. J. RES. 2Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to permit persons who...

Third Term Presidency Amendment Idea . . . Should Be Nixed Kaye Grogan If there is one thing the country doesn’t need-- it’s a possible third term presidency from former President Bill Clinton. Why should he get a third chance to mess things up? It’s taken awhile to restore things back to normalcy in the White House, as it is. Rumors are swirling all around that a compromise could be reached between the Republicans and Democrats, if some of the Republicans would help to amend the Constitution allowing former or current presidents to run for a third term, in exchange...

Washington WhipersHere's the long shot of the year:Congressional Democrats will okay a constitutional amendment allowing naturalized citizens like California Governor Arnold Schwarznegger to run for president if Republicans help kill the 22nd Amendment barring third terms, thus clearing the way for another bid by Bill Clinton and President Bush.Right now its the talk of political strategists, but look for it to spread on Capitol Hill when US Senator Orrin Hatch re-introduces his plan to let naturalized citizens run for president after 20 years.

HELENA - A Bozeman legislator will ask the Montana Legislature to ratify a pending proposed federal constitutional amendment to allow foreign-born, naturalized Americans to run for president of the United States. Interest in the issue has grown because of the popularity of California's popular Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has dual U.S. and Austrian citizenship. He is now ineligible to run for president here because he was born in Austria. "This has nothing to do with Arnold Schwarzenegger," said Rep. Chris Harris, a Democrat. Under his proposal, Harris said, those foreign-born Americans could be citizens of only the United States...

WASHINGTON - Mario Diaz-Balart can be president, but his older brother Lincoln cannot. The U.S. Constitution says so. That's because there's an important difference in where the two Miami congressmen were born: Lincoln Diaz-Balart in Havana, Cuba; his brother in Fort Lauderdale, after the family fled the Castro revolution. The Constitution bars foreign-born citizens from becoming president, which also rules out two governors of large states: Democrat Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, born in Canada, and Austrian-born Arnold Schwarzenegger, a California Republican. Now, because of Schwarzenegger's political rock-star status, a campaign to amend the Constitution to make naturalized citizens eligible for...

Friday night, I was listening to AM 630, WMAL Talk Radio. They are the radio station in Washington, DC that has both Rush and Hannity. The local host at night is Chris Core. Most of the time, I get the feeling he really isn't as set in his opinions, as stated on the air. Last nigth was not an acception. He was arguing that the Constitution should be changed to allow naturalized citizens to become president of the United States. No one even brought up the one reason I will never support such a change. No matter how long a...

In the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election, liberals raged at the ''injustice'' of the Electoral College. Consequently, they demanded the standard ''ix,'' echoed every four years, of amending the Constitution to select the president by popular vote. But although conservatives breathed a sigh of relief in 2000, the delayed determination of Ohio’s vote this year, and its decisive role in President Bush’s reelection, predictably resulted in rumblings from the right that, indeed the Electoral College needs to be discarded. Once again however, the wisdom of the founders has been made evident, for those who are willing to recognize it....

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites)'s wife, Maria Shriver, says America may someday amend the U.S. Constitution and elect a foreign-born president -- but it won't be her husband. "Forget about it. It is not going to happen. The process takes years, and this is as far as it goes," Shriver, the niece of former President John F. Kennedy, told Vanity Fair magazine amid talk of amending the Constitution to allow the Austrian-born film star to run for president. Shriver also said that despite their political differences -- she is a Democrat, he a...

Many adults in the United States reject the possibility of a foreign-born head of state, according to a poll by Gallup released by CNN and USA Today. 67 per cent of respondents would oppose a constitutional amendment that would allow a naturalized United States citizen to be elected president. Article II of the U.S. Constitution established that only "natural born" American citizens are eligible to become presidents. The prospect of constitutional changes has been discussed mostly due to Arnold Schwarzenegger. The actor—who was born in Austria but has been a U.S. citizen since 1983—won California’s recall election on October 2003,...

Like him or not, as Americans we should all stand together to say NO to any change in the US Constitution that would allow foreign-born, naturalized citizens to run for and hold the highest office in this great land...Apparently a movement is underway to change the US Constitution. We must stand up to this and oppose it. Please sign the No2Arnold Petition

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones, a 47-year-old Silicon Valley money manager, wasn't prepared to think much of Arnold Schwarzenegger when she met him at a fund-raiser two years ago. "I thought, 'Austrian meatball,'" she said. "But then five minutes after I met him, I thought, 'You could go all the way to the White House.'" Morgenthaler-Jones signed on with Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign during last year's recall and served on his finance committee. A year after that historic election, she thinks the governor's office doesn't seem large enough for what she calls "Arnold Power." Morgenthaler-Jones last week launched www.AmendforArnold.com, a...

Alien Arnold California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a plan for the future. Friends say the Austrian-born actor is looking for an "entity" to help him push for changing the nativity provision of the U.S. Constitution so he can run for president. Two ideas are under study. One is to work with Congress to change the law barring foreign-born American citizens from becoming president, then to sell it to states. Another is bolder and riskier: creating a third party to push his idea, a move that may lose him Republican support.

No doubt there are good reasons for amending the U.S. Constitution to allow naturalized citizens to run for president. But you won't read them among the arguments posted by a California group pushing to rewrite our Founding document so naturalized citizens can run for president. Its Web site acknowledges, "Naturalized citizens make a heckuva lot more effort to become Americans than those of us who were lucky and landed here at birth." But the group's entire reason for being isn't so much right or wrong: It's "Arnold," as in California's Republican governator. The effort calls home the Web site AmendForArnold.org,...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Friday that foreign-born citizens should be allowed to run for president, a reform that would require amending the Constitution. "We are a country of immigrants. I think that it would be not a bad thing to try to figure out how to allow foreign-born people to become president," Albright told the Little Rock Rotary Club while in town to attend the opening of Bill Clinton's presidential library. Supporters of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have started an effort to amend the Constitution to allow immigrants to run for president. Schwarzenegger...

Today’s question: Should the United States consider amending the Constitution so that foreign-born citizens such as Arnold Schwarzenegger can run for president? Yes 14.0% No 86.0% Total Votes: 57

On the website of the group that's running ads that support changing the Constitution to let Arnold run for the White House, it says ... About the Founders of AmendUs.org --- Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones and Mimi Chen ... Lissa and Mimi were roommates freshman year at Princeton University. ... Lissa's a libertarian-turned-RINO (Republican in name only) and Mimi's a member of the Green Party. 'NUFF SAID - Churchillbuff

The cable television ads, set to begin running Monday, are from a Silicon Valley-based group that wants to amend the U.S. Constitution (search), which limits the presidency to natural U.S. citizens. Those who obtain their citizenship at birth are referred to as natural citizens, while those who become citizens after birth are referred to as naturalized citizens. Schwarzenegger was born in Austria but became a U.S. citizen in 1983. "You cannot choose the land of your birth. You can choose the land you love," Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones (search) says in the ads.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Californians will soon see advertisements urging them to help give Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other foreign-born citizens the chance to run for president. The cable television ads, set to being running Monday, are from a Silicon Valley-based group that wants to amend the U.S. Constitution, which limits the presidency to people born in the United States. Schwarzenegger was born in Austria but became a U.S. citizen in 1983. "You cannot choose the land of your birth. You can choose the land you love," Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones says in the ads. She is a San Francisco Bay area...