Bush vows push on immigration [View All]

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050111-110235-2065r.htm

President Bush yesterday said he plans to spend political capital this year to force a debate in Congress on his immigration-reform proposal, and boldly predicted that he will prevail.

"I believe the president has got to set big agenda items and solve big problems," the president told editors and reporters of The Washington Times in an interview in the Oval Office. "Obviously, we're going to have to work on it, just like Social Security. This will require the expenditure of capital."

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In his first year in office, the House and the Senate passed the second largest tax-cut in history, despite the initial opposition.

"If I listened to all that, I'd just quit, you know. ... But that's not the way I think."