GOP rivals split on immigration measure
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The immigration fight in Congress has spilled over onto the presidential campaign trail. John McCain is trying to sell the skeptical GOP base on contentious Senate legislation while Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and other Republican rivals oppose it.
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Congressional Republicans considering an overhaul of the nation&#039;s immigration laws are leaving Washington to examine labor needs and the vulnerabilities of the nation&#039;s borders.
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Congress may have put off immigration issues for now, in the hopes of passing the intelligence reform bill, but a battle over immigration policy may be looming right around the corner.
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The White House and three powerful GOP senators reached an impasse Wednesday over a Bush administration plan to allow tough CIA interrogations, underscoring election-season divisions among Republicans on the high profile issue of security.
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Bloomberg - Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain said his support of legislation to give illegal immigrants a way to gain legal status has hurt his campaign.
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Several faith-based groups oppose a Republican-sponsored immigration and border security bill that could move quickly through the House with a spending package for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Senate's Republican leader says he is unsure whether he will vote for the immigration bill President Bush strongly supports, underscoring the measure's precarious status.
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Key Republican and Democratic senators are reaching for a deal to resurrect their stalled immigration compromise by requiring that some $4 billion be spent on border security and workplace enforcement.
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The contentious immigration-reform debate has split the president from many members of his own party. Does the White House have the clout to move the bill along?
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Opposition to 'illegals' could prove crucial in Republican primary in South Carolina
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Republican congressional leaders struggled Wednesday to sidetrack legislation allowing prescription drugs to be imported, a pre-election controversy threatening to delay billion of dollars for homeland security.
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Republicans who want to slow  immigration to the United States and crack down on illegal  immigrants believe they are gaining political strength and  public backing, which may pose a problem next year for  President Bush.
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House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) -- in a showdown with Senate Republicans -- has vowed he will not bring a major defense policy bill to the chamber floor this week unless Senate negotiators add a federal court security bill and a controversial House anti-illegal-immigration measure, senior...
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Fred Thompson accused Republican campaign rivals Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney of being soft on illegal immigration Thursday, dismissing them as latecomers to the issue as they strive for the presidency.
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The US Congress takes up Tuesday a divisive bill balancing border security and the documentation of 12 million illegal aliens, in a make-or-break debate that could scuttle immigration reform until after the 2008 presidential election.
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The White House took both sides in a dispute over English being the national language Friday as a broad immigration bill moved toward a final Senate vote next week with one conservative predicting it will never become law.
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As an  immigration overhaul bill is poised to return to the Senate this week, lawmakers from both parties showed little interest in compromise.