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To: Brumar89 who wrote (81017)	9/16/2010 1:04:19 PM
From: Peter Dierks	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 90947

Reid's DREAM Rider Posted 09/15/2010 07:07 PM ET Politics: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has hit a new low by slipping an amnesty plan for illegal immigrants into a defense funding bill. In effect, he's holding U.S. troops hostage to advance his own political career. Longtime members of the Senate Armed Services Committee are shuddering at the way the defense budget has become a Christmas tree for political ornaments. Since last year, Democrats have used appropriations for U.S. troops in Afghanistan to attach riders that couldn't otherwise pass muster. Now Reid has hung the ugliest ornament of them all — the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act — and has scheduled a vote on it next week. "This is an all-time low for me being in the Senate, and that's saying something," committee member Lindsay Graham told ... Message 26825956

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