GOP senator to Bush: 'Back off' on ailing immigration bill

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Source: CNN

POSTED: 1513 GMT (2313 HKT), June 12, 2007
Story Highlights• GOP Sen. Sessions: Don't "push a bill that so many of us can't support"
• Bush to visit Senate to sell his ailing immigration overhaul bill
• White House: If Democrats allow debate for GOP amendments, it will pass
• Bipartisan bill suffered crushing defeat last week; conservatives call it "amnesty"

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As President Bush prepares to make a rare visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to push his ailing immigration plan, one GOP senator is saying the president should "back off" and "help us write a better bill."

During his Senate lunch, Bush is hoping to gain 15 GOP supporters for his centerpiece immigration legislation which suffered a crushing blow in a floor vote last week.

Bush's influence with Congress appears to be waning, although he expressed confidence about the measure on Monday. "I'll see you at the bill signing," he said while traveling in Bulgaria. (Watch the signs that Bush is looking more like a "lame duck" )

But Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a fellow Republican, made it clear Tuesday that he will not be swayed.

"Frankly, I think the president is wrong to push this piece of legislation so hard after we demonstrated the flaws that are in it," Sessions said. "He needs to back off."

Sessions said Bush should help Congress "write a better bill and not push a bill that so many of us can't support."



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[BootinUp]

1. Someone hand them dueling pistols, please. n/t

[EnviroBat]

3. Make that dueling shotguns, that way they are less likely to miss...

[rocktivity]

2. The immigration bill is a joke

Specifically, the joke about a camel being a horse that was put together by a committee!


rocknation

[High Plains]

4. Is no immigration bill better than this one?

Can we live another two years with the status quo ('cause if it can't happen in 2007, it ain't gonna happen in the election year 2008)? I can, but then again, I'm not the one hollering to high heaven about what a problem it is.

[TankLV]

5. YES. Enforce the damn law we have NOW!

[Elspeth]

6. Why does Bush feel the need to push this particular bill?

What is in it that benefits his cronies?

[Speaker]

7. 200,000+ slaves...errr...uhhh....guest workers, for union busting. n/t

[Elspeth]

8. Ahhhhhh

thanks