Today’s Times
- While a bipartisan Senate group is preparing to introduce broad immigration legislation next week, another bipartisan group in the House is readying its own, Ashley Parker writes. The House plan would offer three distinct, if difficult, paths to legal status.
- One issue has emerged as the make-or-break provision in President Obama’s four-month campaign to overhaul gun laws: a proposal to expand federal background checks for gun purchases, Michael D. Shear reports.
- The National Rifle Association released a 225-page report on Tuesday ahead of next week’s gun control debate in the Senate, calling for armed police officers, security guards or staff members in every American school, Sheryl Gay Stolberg reports. One of the study’s central conclusions is that “the presence of armed security personnel adds a layer of security and diminishes response time†in a shooting.
- A report to be issued Wednesday by the liberal Center for American Progress says that some states with the highest levels of gun violence are among the ones with the weakest gun laws in the country, Erica Goode reports.
Around the Web
- President Obama will attend the dedication of The George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Tex., Time reports. He will join former presidents George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, making it the first time all five of them will be together since shortly before Mr. Obama’s first inauguration.
 Happenings in Washington
- Five former White House chiefs of staff, representing four presidents, will be at the William G. McGowan Theater at the National Archives on Wednesday discussing their jobs and lessons learned from managing the White House. Donald Rumsfeld from the Gerald R. Ford administration, Kenneth M. Duberstein from the Ronald Reagan administration, Thomas F. McLarty III and John D. Podesta from the Bill Clinton administration, and Joshua B. Bolten from the George W. Bush administration will sit on the panel.
