Thread: Bloggers, radio reshaping bill on immigration

Bloggers, radio reshaping bill on immigration

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbc ... 30056/1001

By Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
June 23, 2007

Rodney Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, is drafting tighter provisions into the immigration bill, which is scheduled to return to the floor next week.

The top Senate Republican negotiator on immigration said he has heard the complaints of conservative talk-radio show hosts and bloggers, and will try to change the immigration bill to accommodate them.

Sen. Jon Kyl, the Arizona Republican who wrote the bill with Democrats and the Bush administration, said he is making moves to stiffen immigration law enforcement when the Senate bill returns to the floor next week.

"All of the concerns from our constituents and some in the media have been listened to, and incorporated," said Mr. Kyl, who is drafting new provisions in an amendment he hopes to offer.

A vote to resurrect the bill, which collapsed two weeks ago when Democrats and Republicans demanded more time to pass amendments, is scheduled for Tuesday. It will require the support of 60 senators. As of yesterday, it was a close call, with opponents claiming momentum.

To rescue the bill, President Bush will need to find more support among Republicans than two weeks ago, said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat. In that last vote, 11 Democrats and one independent joined all but seven Republicans present in blocking the bill — leaving supporters 15 votes shy of the 60 needed.

"We believe this bill deserves more than 14 percent of the Republican vote. We can't do it all on our own," Mr. Reid said yesterday.

Mr. Bush is trying to oblige, making calls this week to senators urging them to support the bill. A White House spokesman declined to say who he has called or whether his list includes Democrats as well as Republicans.

The bill is a fragile compromise that combines a path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens with a guest-worker program for future workers and a rewrite of future immigration rules to help those with needed skills or education.

Mr. Bush is trying to oblige, making calls this week to senators urging them to support the bill. A White House spokesman declined to say who he has called or whether his list includes Democrats as well as Republicans.

Notice even the Washington Times no longer wants to call him, "President Bush". He's "Mr. Bush".

They should not say that "Mr. Bush is trying to oblige".....the reality is that Mr. Bush is doing everything he possibly can to force this bill on the American people against their will.

To rescue the bill, President Bush will need to find more support among Republicans than two weeks ago

This is the wrong kind of thinking. Notice how the American people were just left out.

No Bush, you will not find it because you don't have the support of the people who count, the millions of Amerian voters.

Dixie

IS KYL TAKING AMNESTY OUT???????????? That's the only way I even START looking at it. Then the bloated guest worker program............and a few other things!!!!

Kyl doesn't like talk radio because they tell the truth about the bills and about the senators. Without talk radio and their staffs many of us would have a rough time finding out what is happening. The senate and house have started working so much behind closed doors and not letting anyone have change to look at what is happening.

Beside we in America are suppose to have free speech. Not limited speech to support elites in Washington DC. Another reason to clean house over the next six years. We need to start over with just plain americans and not politicans.

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They should not say that "Mr. Bush is trying to oblige".....the reality is that Mr. Bush is doing everything he possibly can to force this bill on the American people against their will.[/quote]


I was told that he was threatening the Senators that if they do not sign the bill then Bush and the big businesses would withdraw federal funds from the states the Senators are coming from and from the projects they are involved into , hurting their constituents in the long run . This is how he is trying to force the bill on them by the sheer pressure of the financial blackmail .
This is so bad .