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Washington, D.C. -- Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy joined Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Richard Durbin, and Cardinals Roger Mahony and Theodore McCarrick to push Congress to act by passing comprehensive immigration reform instead of criminalizing the 12 million immigrants living and working in the United States. Senator Kennedy said, "Our history teaches us that doing the right thing for people is also the right policy for our country. When we bring immigrants out of the shadows and into the sunshine of America, we improve their lives and make them less vulnerable to abuse. And in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three top Senate Democrats said on Thursday they will vote against Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito because they fear he would not provide an effective check to what they described as President George W. Bush's bid for expanded power. While Alito appeared headed toward confirmation by the Republican-led Senate, Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts made the case against Bush's 55-year-old conservative candidate. They expressed concern that if confirmed, Alito, a federal appeals judge since 1990, would push the nation's highest court to the right on a number of...

Thursday on the show! Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, is our guest to respond to the White House calling his remarks "Reprehensible" regarding a report he read on the Senate floor of an FBI agent who described the treatment of prisoners at Gitmo. — Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, D-FL, joins the show to discuss the vote on the "Patriot Act", the "Downing Street Memo" hearing, and the autopsy results on Terri Schiavo. — Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, is our guest to talk about his amendment to curtail the FBI's ability to seize library and bookstore records with the "Patriot Act". — Joe...

White House slams lawmaker over Guantanamo comparison to Nazis WHITE HOUSE The White House is slamming a Democratic senator for comparing interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay to those used by the Nazis, the Soviets and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Press Secretary Scott McClellan calls Dick Durbin's remarks "beyond belief." He says U-S soldiers "go out of their way" to treat prisoners humanely. Durbin -- the Senate's number-two Democrat -- took to the Senate floor Tuesday to read from an F-B-I report describing treatment at the prison for terror suspects. He then said if a listener didn't know, he or...