Thread: Article collection help needed for the homepage

Friends,

I need to update the homepage this morning with the two or three best articles that

1. Contain Bush's statement about "see you at the signing"

and

2. Have the best descriptions of what his plans for meeting with the Senators today are.

Please post me titles and links here quickly so i can update the home and reach out to our national supporter list to prepare them.

W

Bush goes one-on-one with GOP doubters

http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... 011#384011

The Immigration Conflagration Is Not Yet Extinguished
by Newt Gingrich

http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=68102

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070612/ts ... 0612073745


Bush pushes to rescue US immigration overhaul

W.

This one looks really strong

Bush to Push Immigration Bill at Capitol

http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... 910#383910

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/ ... 1-06-59-58

"I'll see you at the bill signing."

http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... 022#384022

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,280993,00.html
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Bush Heads to Capitol Hill to Address Immigration Stalemate
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

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WASHINGTON — President Bush, wading deeper into an issue that bitterly divides his party, hopes a personal appeal to fellow Republicans at lunch Tuesday can save his immigration bill.

Bush scheduled a rare visit to the Capitol, seeking to change enough minds among GOP senators to salvage a top domestic priority. The measure, which legalizes up to 12 million unlawful immigrants and tightens border security, stalled last week in the face of broad Republican opposition.

"I think one of the things that we have to do is answer the skeptics, answer the doubters," White House press secretary Tony Snow said Tuesday.

"We not only have a good sound bill, but it's also one that a lot of conservatives, when they get a chance to look at it, will say OK," he said on NBC's "Today" show.

Scott Stanzel, another White House spokesman, said Bush "will talk about the fact that immigration reform is too important to let this opportunity pass, and this is the best opportunity that we have had in decades to reform the broken immigration system."

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., told CNN Tuesday that Bush "needs to help us write a better bill and not push a bill that so many of us cannot support."

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It's the president's latest and most overt attempt to sell Congress on the immigration overhaul, which was shaped by his views and drafted by an unlikely liberal-to-conservative coalition in close consultation with two Cabinet secretaries.

"I'll see you at the bill signing," Bush predicted Monday.

The measure exposes deep divisions among both parties, but it was Republicans who stood in its way last week when all but seven of them blocked a Democratic effort to put it on a fast track to passage.

Senate Democratic leaders have written Bush saying it is up to him to lean on Republicans to back the measure.

"It will take stronger leadership by you to ensure the opponents of the bill do not block its path forward," the letter said. "Simply put, we need many more than seven Republicans" to support the bill.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he will bring up the measure again if Democrats can be assured of more Republican backing.

It's unclear, though, how much influence Bush has among Republicans on immigration, given that it has sparked a backlash among some of the party's core supporters, who see it as amnesty for people who sneaked into the country.

Appearing Tuesday on CBS's "The Early Show," Snow said, "I think what you're going to find is that Senate Republicans are going to put together a package of amendments and present them to Democrats and say, 'This what we want to debate.' "

"We seem to be getting some signals out of the majority leader that he'll go ahead and make that debate possible, and therefore we feel pretty confident we're going to get passage," Snow said.

Said Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz., a key sponsor of the bill: "I think the president understands that really is our last best hope. We have a system that cannot identify whether they (immigrants) are legally employed or not." solved ...

"Unfortunately, neither the previous administraton nor this administration nor the Congress has done a good job of enforcing the border," Kyl told CNN Tuesday. "The key is employee verification ... and the system today we have is broken. It's a joke. It cannot be enforced."

Proponents of the bill gathered Monday evening to plot strategy for bringing it back. They were working to agree on a limited list of Republican-sought changes that could be considered before a final vote on the measure.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader, has said such a deal could allow the bill to go forward.

"There are a substantial number of Republican senators who believe that this bill would be an improvement over the current situation, over the status quo," McConnell said.

W.,

This one looks pretty good too. Reid calls it the "president's bill"

Reid presses Bush over GOP votes

http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=68100

June 12, 2007
Dems Ask Bush For Immigration Help As He Heads To Hill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Monday that he would be willing to schedule more floor debate for a bipartisan immigration compromise after the Senate completes its work on an energy bill, "if we see new cooperation and a clear way forward from the Republican Caucus."

"If we can work out something when we finish this energy bill to complete immigration, I want to do that," Reid said. A second floor debate on immigration would likely push the Senate's scheduled consideration of a defense authorization bill until after the Independence Day recess.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said most Republican senators have "made up their minds" on immigration. But, McConnell added, "I think there's a reasonable number of Republicans who, in the end are likely, unless this compromise gets unraveled in some way, in the end, are likely to help us get it through."

President Bush will meet with Senate Republicans today at their weekly policy luncheon to discuss immigration.

Reid noted that only seven Republicans voted last week for a cloture motion that would end debate and lead the way to a final vote. Twelve Democrats voted with most Republicans against the motion, and Reid indicated it would be difficult to convince those senators to switch their votes. "We've about maxed out at 80 percent" of Democrats supporting the bill, Reid said.

Senate Democratic leaders sent a letter to Bush Monday expressing appreciation for the president's efforts to get an immigration bill through the Senate.

"But we believe it will take stronger leadership by you to ensure the opponents of the bill do not block the path to final passage. Simply put, we need many more than seven Republicans to vote for cloture and final passage of this bill," the letter said.

Republican leaders would be required to triple their number of supporters in order to make up the 15-vote deficit created by last week's failed cloture vote on immigration. Minority Whip Trent Lott, R-Miss., indicated on the floor Monday that he supports continued debate on the immigration bill "and a conclusion, if at all possible."

Lott said last week that he could "probably" support the bipartisan compromise as long as it retains its limits on "chain migration."

McConnell and Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Arlen Specter, R-Pa., both complained Monday about Reid's decision to use the day's floor time for debating a no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. "We ended up taking Friday off and today we're voting on a meaningless resolution," McConnell told reporters.

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said Monday that he will attempt to stop Senate leaders from bringing the immigration bill back to the floor. "This idea we can get 10 more amendments, and we're going to jam it through, if that's the plan, I'm going to do everything I can to stop it," he told reporters.

DeMint is one of the more high profile Senate "dissenters" trying to stop the compromise immigration measure from moving forward.

DeMint said he intends to attend the luncheon meeting with Bush today, and he hopes the president will allow border security and employment verification programs to be enacted separately.

Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., one of the architects of the compromise measure, said Monday that the president might be able to convince "persuadable" senators to support the bill. "I think he can certainly shore up people that may be wondering where we're going with this," he said. "Certainly he's not going to persuade Jim DeMint," Martinez added.

Martinez said Republicans are working to whittle some 300 amendments filed by Republicans to the immigration bill.

DeMint dismissed the effort. "The bill's not going to get any better," he said. "So I don't think the amendments we want are going to be approved."

-Fawn Johnson, CongressDaily

http://thegate.nationaljournal.com/2007 ... ration.php