Senate deals major blow to immigration bill
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A White House-backed bill to revamp immigration laws stalled in the Senate on Thursday, handing President George W. Bush a major legislative setback.
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The Senate slashed the size of a proposed guest-worker program for foreign laborers yesterday, dealing the first real blow to a fragile overhaul of the nation's immigration laws since it reached the Senate floor this week.
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The Senate narrowly rejected two proposals today that would have upset the delicate compromise embodied in a bipartisan bill to overhaul the nationâs immigration laws.
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President George W. Bush suffered a major defeat on his plan to overhaul immigration laws on Thursday when the Senate refused to close debate and advance the legislation.
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The Senate resurrected the immigration bill that could legalize millions of unlawful immigrants Tuesday, but the delicate compromise faces the same threats that derailed it earlier this month.
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The stalemate between the House and Senate on immigration reform is riling US voters.
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Sixteen of the two dozen amendments the Senate will consider attaching to a revived immigration bill come from senators who helped derail the legislation earlier this month.
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The 66-29 roll call by which the Senate on Thursday rejected an effort to bar millions of unlawful immigrants from gaining legal status and eventually citizenship as part of a broad immigration bill.
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US senators fail to proceed to an early vote on a landmark immigration bill, in effect scuppering the measure.
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A broad bipartisan immigration deal was threatened Tuesday as the Senate prepared to vote on a Republican proposal to make it harder for millions of illegal immigrants to qualify for green cards.
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An amendment offered to the contentious immigration bill now before the U.S. Senate would bar companies that lay off workers from using H-1B visas.
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The US Senate voted on Tuesday to resurrect a bitterly divisive immigration bill, but the last-ditch effort to offer legal status to 12 million illegal immigrants still faced huge obstacles.
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Legislation that would have offered a path to citizenship for illegal-immigrant high school graduates who entered the United States as children failed a key test vote in the Senate yesterday.
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The Senate is headed for a showdown over immigration reform on Tuesday when lawmakers vote on whether to revive a bill that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants.
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President Bushâs effort to overhaul the nationâs immigration policy collapsed in the Senate.
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A bipartisan immigration bill narrowly survived a potentially fatal challenge on Wednesday when the Senate turned back a Republican bid to limit the illegal immigrants who could gain lawful status.
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Republican lawmakers yesterday blocked the Senate from taking up the D.C. vote bill, a potentially fatal setback for the District's most promising effort in years to get a full member of Congress.