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impik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 05:39 PM
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Immigration Reform on the way!
Obama Calls Sen. Scott Brown About Immigration

President Barack Obama called Massachusetts’ new Republican senator, Scott Brown, from Air Force One today to deliver some news: Democrats are moving forward with an immigration overhaul in a month.

Brown, in an interview with the Journal’s Neil King Jr., said the president was giving him a heads-up that immigration was coming down the pike and he should give it some serious thought. The senator promised to look closely at the bipartisan bill that Sens. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) and Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) are trying to produce.

“He called me originally about illegal immigration, something that he wanted me to look at that was coming down the pike,” Brown says of the call, which also roamed onto other topics like basketball and financial regulation. “I told him and others that I will read anything and make a judgment when it comes forth.”


http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/04/20/next-up-obama-calls-sen-scott-brown-about-immigration/
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Clio the Leo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 06:57 PM
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1. Hellooo! Does no one care?
Edited on Tue Apr-20-10 06:57 PM by Clio the Leo
I'll kick you anyway! ;)
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 07:02 PM
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2. I care. This is entertaining. n/t
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 07:03 PM
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3. It seems O is a bit worried about November, so he's moving on things fast.
I've never seen this speed. Then I'll hear it's DADT for June.
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Clio the Leo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 07:24 PM
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4. I think the BFD drama just skewed our perception of how things move...
... we're used to things being realllllllyyyyyy sloooooooowwwwwwww. :)
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amandabeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 08:14 PM
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5. I hope that he has polls that back this up as an election winner.
Personally, I think that passing this will bring out more anti voters than pro unless the real unemployment rate goes to 4%.

Maybe Obama thinks that he has to do payback now, but this may not be the time for this legislation.
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icee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 10:37 AM
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8. I agree 100% with you.
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tishaLA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 11:45 AM
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9. I agree. It's important legislation, but doing it so close to the midterm
could be tough
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agentS Donating Member (922 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 08:58 PM
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6. It's either now or during the Lame Duck session.
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 10:08 AM
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7. K & R!
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 12:07 PM
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10. Great! And here you thought HRC was a goat rope, just wait for this MESS?
Edited on Wed Apr-21-10 12:07 PM by ShortnFiery
Everybody in Congress is busy memorizing their parts.

This is going to be another really big SHOW of robbing the little people of their hard earned cash. Too easy sometimes - like taking candy from a baby?

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SwampG8r Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 11:44 PM
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14. +1
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lunamagica Donating Member (430 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 09:50 PM
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11. Wonderful news!!!
Presidnt Obama promised he'd do this during his first year in office. Better late than never

And this needs to be done NOW, otherwise millions of hispanics who voted for him based on this promise will just stay home in Nov.

Thank you for posing this great news, Impik!
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Hutzpa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 10:17 PM
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12. K&R
About time.

:kick:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 11:15 PM
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13. Two opposite views on reading this thread..
Some say it shouldn't be done before Nov..and others say it's about time.

Guess the Pres thinks it's time.
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