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Immigration amnesty: it's not over until it's over.(INSIDE TRACK)
"I think the immigration issue is off the front burner. I lost, the other side won, it is over." That was Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in an interview with ThePolitico.com on July 16. McCain has been the leading Republican in the Senate pushing the illegal alien amnesty legislation fashioned by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and President Bush. The Bush-Kennedy-McCain forces, bolstered by the big business lobby demanding cheap foreign labor and the militant "immigrant rights" lobby demanding full political and economic rights for illegal aliens, expected to steam-roll their "comprehensive reform" legislation through Congress. However, they suffered a stinging defeat on June 27 when the U.S. Senate rejected cloture 46-53, thereby blocking a vote to pass S. 1639, the amnesty bill.
The Senate vote, in which there were some surprise defections, came about because an unusually large number of concerned voters besieged their senators with letters, faxes, e-mail, telephone ...
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Sen. Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.) told activists from President Bush's own denomination that the president has squandered international good will by planning a war against Saddam Hussein while ignoring...
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- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Palumbo, Eugenio March 21, 2003 700+ words
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., told activists from President Bush's own denomination that the president has squandered international good will by planning war against Saddam Hussein while ignoring...
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- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Hotakainen, Rob June 8, 2001 700+ words
...the second full day of Democratic control in the Senate, Sens. Paul Wellstone and Edward Kennedy differed sharply on a plan that sought to block President Bush's school-testing program. Wellstone, D-Minn., proposed stopping the mandatory...
- `Stone silence' for grim diagnosis; The news of Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Diaz, Kevin Wilson, Conrad May 21, 2008 700+ words
...ago, Democratic legend Edward Kennedy was holding court at a surprise...of Democratic politics. President Bush, notified shortly after...Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, Edward Kennedy was first elected to the...diagnosis doctors gave Sen. Edward Kennedy -- is the worst kind ...
- Edward Kennedy.(USA)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor January 14, 2005 700+ words
Byline: David T. Cook US Sen. Edward Kennedy (D) of Massachusetts was Thursday's guest. Here are...Secretary- designate] Margaret Spellings, who has [President Bush's] ear. And therefore, when she says yes and no...
- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to Receive the 2004 George Bush Award...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 8, 2004 700+ words
...campus on November 30. Former President Bush will present the award to the...Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts as Bush Award...levels. The award underscores President Bush's long service and commitment...
- SEN. KENNEDY BLASTS RAID AS IMMIGRANT WORKERS HELD.(Edward Kennedy on Michael...
- Magazine article from: WWD Ellis, Kristi March 14, 2007 700+ words
...hundreds of immigrant workers has drawn fire from Sen. Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.). In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary...assistant secretary of Homeland Security, said in a statement. President Bush came under fire for the raid Monday during his visit to...
- A Little Brain Surgery Doesn't Slow Kennedy.(Edward Kennedy)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Bedard, Paul July 7, 2008 700+ words
...Memo to those who bought into the story line that Sen.Edward Kennedy's brain cancer was the beginning of the end of his life...universal healthcare program, Kennedy made calls last month to President Bush's team. The result: The money will most likely continue...
