Thomas Veil
Nov 21, 2004, 07:22 AM
Heh heh. After Bush said he was going to make implementing the 9/11 Commission's recommendations a top priority, House GOP lawmakers are stalling it (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/20/congress.intelligence/index.html).
Tentative agreement between the House and Senate came, sources told CNN, after President Bush called Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin late Friday to urge the congressman to "back off" from pushing immigration driver's license provisions that threatened the bill's passage.
Those provisions would have forbidden states to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants; required refugees and those granted asylum to get driver's licenses that are annually renewed; and imposed what some immigrant advocates said were onerous identification requirements on immigrants seeking driver's licenses.
Sensenbrenner had defended the provisions because all 19 hijackers involved in the attacks had acquired U.S. driver's licenses. But after his conversation with the president, Sensenbrenner agreed to drop them, congressional sources said.
But, in a meeting that lasted until after 4 a.m. Saturday, Sensenbrenner argued to reopen other disputed immigration provisions, congressional staffers involved in the negotiations said.
Gonna be another terrific term with the GOP in charge. :rolleyes:
Tentative agreement between the House and Senate came, sources told CNN, after President Bush called Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin late Friday to urge the congressman to "back off" from pushing immigration driver's license provisions that threatened the bill's passage.
Those provisions would have forbidden states to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants; required refugees and those granted asylum to get driver's licenses that are annually renewed; and imposed what some immigrant advocates said were onerous identification requirements on immigrants seeking driver's licenses.
Sensenbrenner had defended the provisions because all 19 hijackers involved in the attacks had acquired U.S. driver's licenses. But after his conversation with the president, Sensenbrenner agreed to drop them, congressional sources said.
But, in a meeting that lasted until after 4 a.m. Saturday, Sensenbrenner argued to reopen other disputed immigration provisions, congressional staffers involved in the negotiations said.
Gonna be another terrific term with the GOP in charge. :rolleyes:
