Doomed Immigration Bill Makes Twice In Two Years Bush Failed To Drive Major Domestic Plans Through Friendly GOP Congress...

New York Times Adam Nagourney, Carl Hulse and Jim Rutenberg June 24, 2006 at 08:35 PM
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For the White House, the Congressional picnic last week seemed like the perfect setting to mend strained relations with Republican allies on Capitol Hill: President Bush and his advisers eating taquitos and Mexican confetti rice on the lawn of the White House with Republican Congressional leaders.

But moments before Mr. Bush was to welcome his guests, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert told the president that House Republicans were effectively sidelining -- and in the view of some Congressional aides probably killing -- what had become Mr. Bush's signature domestic initiative of the year: an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.

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