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  1. 06-28-2007, 02:57 PM #1
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    NY TIMES SENATE BLOCKS BILL FROM MOVING FORWARD

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    June 28, 2007

    Senate Blocks Effort to Revive Immigration Overhaul

    By ROBERT PEAR and JOHN HOLUSHA

    WASHINGTON, June 28 —The Senate voted today to effectively block efforts to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, meaning that the issue is most likely dead until after the 2008 elections.

    Needing 60 votes to bring debate on the contentious bill to an end — a step called cloture — and move it toward passage, proponents of the bill could only muster 46 votes in favor today, with 53 opposed.

    In the debate leading up to the vote, Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, said, “If we do not invoke cloture, the bill is dead.â€
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    But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
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    [quote]“We can imagine the resentment, the hostility that will seethe and grow,â€
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