Arlen Specter: "Tempers will cool...We have to craft a compromise"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Specter Still Hopeful on Immigration Deal

http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8GSI1R01.html

April 09,2006 | WASHINGTON -- Despite the collapse of a bipartisan deal on immigration legislation, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee expressed optimism on Sunday that senators can pass a bill when they return from vacation.

"I think tempers will cool over a two-week period. And also, there are going to be some expressions by many people very unhappy with the Senate not passing a bill and very unhappy with the House bill" that would make being an illegal immigrant a felony, said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. "And there's a real risk of significant political fallout here, and members of the Senate think about that, believe it or not," he said.

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A bill hailed as a bipartisan breakthrough in an election year fell victim late last week to internal disputes in both parties as well as political maneuvering. On the key vote, only 38 senators, all Democrats, lined up in support. That was 22 short of the 60 needed, and left the legislation in limbo. President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee and other Republican leaders blamed Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, of "putting a stranglehold" on the Senate by refusing to permit votes on more than three Republican amendments.

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"I think when we come back from recess, we'll get a bill," Specter told "Fox News Sunday." Frist has stopped short of a commitment to bring another immigration bill to the floor by year's end, noting that it would depend on the schedule, already crowded with other legislation. But Specter said Sunday, "Everyone agrees there's an enormous problem. There's general agreement that we have to craft a compromise."

[TankLV]

1. Translation: REPUKE way or NOTHING.

That's their definition of "compromise".

Our Dem leadership better realize that - QUICK!