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To: kabar
Simply not true.

I am missing something. What in my statement was untrue?

Byrd stopped the amnesty bill in 2002. Bush and his cohorts tried several more times later. Bush even said the morning after the 2006 turn over of leadership in the House and Senate (to the Dems) that he 'now had a Congress he would work with' on comprehensive immigration. An additional attempt also failed. IIRC, there were a total of 4 attempts while GW was president.
115 posted on 04/14/2013 8:09:08 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy
Under GW Bush, one amnesty attempt was started, but got derailed by the 9-11-01 attacks.

There was more than just one attempt and the most serious one was Hagel-Martinez (S 2611) that passed the Senate 62-36 on May 25, 2006. There were 23 Reps who joined with the Dems to pass the bill. Rove tried to pressure Sensenbrenner in the House who refused to go along. The Reps still controlled Congress in 2006. When the Dems took over in January 2007 this just opened the way for McCain-Kennedy, essentially a replay of Hagel-Martinez. But it didn't progress very far thanks to a public outcry and the way McCain and Kennedy tried to steamroller the bill without hearings or any ability to change it.

I have no doubt that the Senate will pass the Gang of 8 Rubio-Schumer bill this time. And I don't think that Boehner will try to stop a vote on the bill. He has his own gang in the House working on a similar bill. The fix appears to be in unless we can mobilize the public once again to stop it.

118 posted on 04/14/2013 8:27:31 AM PDT by kabar
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