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Reid tries to get around the Graham roadblock
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Reid tries to get around the Graham roadblock
By JEANNE CUMMINGS & KASIE HUNT | 4/28/10 8:19 PM EDT
Harry Reid, left, leads the effort to create a framework for immigration reform that will attract a Republican sponsor to replace Sen. Lindsey Graham. AP
Senate Democrats on Wednesday began circulating a legislative framework for immigration reform http://www.politico.com/static/PPM154_proposal.html that advocates hope will attract a Republican sponsor to replace Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and ease the way for action on both immigration and energy reform this year.
The effort is an attempt by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to get around the roadblock caused when Graham, the lone Republican sponsor on both bills, threatened to withdraw his support from both measures unless Reid agreed to table immigration this year.
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