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ByAlanFram The Associated Press WASHINGTON Inavictory for airlines and their work- ers' unions, the House re- jected consumers' com- plaints and easily passed legislation Monday letting airline advertising empha- size the base price of tick- ets, before taxes and fees are added. The bipartisan legisla- tion would roll back fed- eral regulations that since 2012 have required ads to most prominently display the full ticket price. Un- der the bill, the base price could be the figure most prominently shown in ads and ticket-selling websites as long as taxes and fees are displayed separately, such as in footnotes or pop-up ads. The measure was ap- proved by voice vote, with individual lawmakers' votes not recorded. That process is used often for non-con- troversial bills, but it can also allow legislators avoid taking a public position on a touchy issue. Groups representing air- line passengers and com- panies that rely on cor- porate travel derided the bill's name, the Transpar- ent Airfares Act of 2014, as Orwellian. They said the measure's enactment would return the country to an earlier era of misleading and confusing advertising. "Their main goal is to be able to offer the public a low-ball price," said Charlie Leocha, chairman of Trav- elers United, which repre- sents people who travel. But the airlines — backed by unions representing pi- lots, mechanics and flight attendants — say including taxes and fees in their ad- vertised prices hurts busi- ness and hides from con- sumers the extra costs that government imposes on air travel. Showing the full price "can dampen demand for travel and ultimately cost even more jobs in an in- dustry that has lost nearly one-third of its work force since 2001, typically result- ing in reduced service to small and rural communi- ties," according to an April letter to lawmakers from Airlines for America, the in- dustry's chief trade group, and other airline and labor organizations. According to the nonpar- tisan Center for Responsive Politics, almost 60 percent of the $2.2 million in politi- cal contributions since Jan- uary 2013 from airline po- litical committees and in- dividual workers has gone to Republicans. Of the $3 million contributed by air transport unions, two- thirds has gone to Demo- crats. FLIGHT House bill lets airlines advertise pre-tax fares MANUELBALCECENETA—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS A Delta Air Lines jet takes off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., on Monday. By Brady Mccombs The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY The FBI has done a thorough search of its archives and found no evidence that more Okla- homa City bombing videos exist, federal attorneys told a judge on Monday during the first day of a trial that has rekindled long-dormant questions about whether others were involved in the devastating 1995 attack. Additional searches for videos that Salt Lake City lawyer Jesse Trentadue believes are being with- held would be burdensome and fruitless, FBI attorney Kathryn Wyer said. The agency has already provided videos and paper documents that correspond with Trentadue's Freedom of Information Act request, she said. "The plaintiff has refused to accept that the 30 tapes he got are the only tapes," Wyer said during opening statements in the bench trial in a Salt Lake City fed- eral courtroom. The trial was triggered by a Freedom of Informa- tion Act lawsuit Trentadue filed in 2008. Unsatisfied by the FBI's previous explana- tions, U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups ordered the FBI to explain why it can't find videos from the bombing that are men- tioned in evidence logs, cit- ing the public importance of the tapes. COURT Trial begins in case over Oklahoma City bombing By Erica Werner The Associated Press WASHINGTON Even as they grapple with an im- migration crisis at the border, White House of- ficials are making plans to act before November's mid-term elections to grant work permits to po- tentially millions of im- migrants who are in this country illegally, allowing them to stay in the United States without threat of deportation, according to advocates and lawmakers in touch with the admin- istration. Such a large-scale move on immigration could scramble election-year politics and lead some conservative Republicans to push for impeachment proceedings against Pres- ident Barack Obama, a prospect White House of- ficials have openly dis- cussed. Yet there's little sign that the urgent humani- tarian situation in South Texas, where unaccom- panied minors have been showing up by the tens of thousands from Central America, has impeded Obama from making plans to address some portion of the 11.5 million immi- grants now in this coun- try illegally. Obama an- nounced late last month that congressional efforts to remake the nation's dys- functional immigration system were dead and he would proceed on his own authority to fix the system where he could. Since then he's asked Congress for $3.7 billion to deal with the crisis of unaccompanied youths, a request that's gone unmet even as the House and the Senate scramble to see if they can vote on some so- lution to the crisis this week before adjourning for their annual August recess. Meanwhile, W hite House officials led by Do- mestic Policy Council Di- rector Cecilia Munoz and White House Counsel Neil Eggleston, along with Homeland Security Sec- retary Jeh Johnson, have been working to chart a plan on executive actions Obama could take, hosting frequent meetings with in- terest groups and listening to recommendations from immigration advocates, law enforcement officials, religious leaders, Hispanic lawmakers and others. Advocates and lawmak- ers who were in separate meetings Friday said that administration officials are weighing a range of options including reforms to the deportation system and ways to grant relief from deportation to tar- geted populations in the country, likely by expand- ing Obama's two-year- old directive that granted work permits to certain immigrants brought here illegally as youths. That program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Ar- rivals, or DACA, has been extended to more than 500,000 immigrants so far.fterr Advocates would like to see deferred action made available to anyone who would have been eligible for eventual citizenship under a comprehensive immigration bill the Sen- ate passed last year, which would be around 9 million people. That's led advocates to focus on other populations Obama might address, in- cluding parents or legal guardians of U.S. citizen children (around 3.8 mil- lion people as of 2009, ac- cording to an analysis by Pew Research's Hispanic Trends Project) and par- ents or legal guardians of DACA recipients (per- haps 500,000 to 1 million people, according to the Fair Immigration Reform Movement). 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