Republicans want Leadership from Bush on Immigration
President George W. Bush needs to be more specific about the kind of immigration reform legislation he supports if he hopes to win passage of a new law in an election year, a key Republican senator said on Tuesday.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who supports a bipartisan compromise that stalled in the Senate earlier this month, told reporters Bush should “be specific about what is good … and what he doesn’t like” in the bill.
Bush, who is pushing to revive the legislation in hopes of signing a bill before the November congressional elections, was meeting with Graham and other key senators later on Tuesday to discuss it.
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