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To: Dale Baker who wrote (38365)	6/12/2007 12:58:13 PM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 541778

Immigration Bill: Dead or Alive? Sarah Lueck (WSJ) reports on efforts to restart immigration legislation. As President Bush heads to the Capitol to talk about immigration today, Republican senators say there’s reason to hope for revival of legislation that stalled last week. After a meeting on immigration Monday night, Republican Sens. Mel Martinez of Florida and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said that Republicans and Democrats should be able to agree on a limited set of amendments and restart the debate on an overhaul bill. Republicans have no more than 10 to 15 amendments they’d like to bring up, the senators said. Democrats have perhaps eight to 10. “We need at most three legislative days to avoid another 30 years of chaos,” Graham said. Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy, who has pushed for the legislation, said that the center is holding and that further talks among Republicans and Democrats to move the legislation forward will continue today. “Like the President, many of us are very determined to get the job done and get it done now,” he said in a statement. Bush’s visit to a lunch with Republican senators is meant to prod his party to support the legislation. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada has said more Republican votes are needed to propel the bill forward. The president “can shore people up” with his visit today, Martinez said, but he isn’t going to change the minds of some Republican opponents, such as Sens. Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Jim DeMint of South Carolina. Sessions on CNN today offered his take on lunch today. The president, he said, “needs to help us write a better bill and not push a bill that so many of us cannot support.'’