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Bipartisan push on immigration stalled by politics and divides
Last year the Senate and House pursued a sweeping immigration reform plan led by Edward M. Kennedy and John McCain, but Republican resistance and a 700 mile border fence proposal stalled progress. Gutierrez and Flake continued with a House starter bill demanding illegal workers leave briefly for legal reentry, while Democrats faced union opposition and a lack of enough votes in both chambers.
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Senate
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
John McCain
R-Ariz
House
Luis Gutierrez
Deborah Meyers
Migration Policy Institute
Gutierrez
Flake
Kennedy
McCain
Congress
Nick Lampson
Texas
Tom DeLay
Lampson
Bobby Zafarnia
Mexico
Bush
Homeland Security
Michael Chertoff
Commerce
Carlos Gutierrez
White House
Jon Kyl
Rariz
John Cornyn
Cornyn
Kyl
Yvette Pena Lopes
Teamsters