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Men were convicted for shooting suspected drug dealer Click-2-Listen By Eunice Moscoso, Ken Herman WASHINGTON BUREAU Thursday, July 19, 2007 WASHINGTON — Two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee urged President Bush on Wednesday to commute the prison sentences of a pair of former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting an unarmed man and trying to cover it up. Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said in a letter to the White House that the case involved "prosecutorial overreaching." "We urge you to commute their prison sentences immediately," they wrote. The agents, Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos,...

WASHINGTON, DC – Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), today issued the following statement on Tom Harkin's vicious attacks on President Bush: "Sen. Tom Harkin's vicious attacks today crossed the line of acceptable political discourse and are another example of John Kerry and his surrogates taking the low road and making accusations they know are false. Harkin's flailing attack this afternoon was made on behalf of a desperate candidate who realizes voters are not trusting his constantly changing positions on the War on Terror. While John Kerry and his fellow Democrats are unable to move beyond what happened 35 years ago and...