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  • Frist says Senate unlikely to get to immigration this year

    07/15/2005 3:32:25 PM PDT · by Conservative Firster · 71 replies · 1,339+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | July 15, 2005 | By SAMANTHA LEVINE and MICHAEL HEDGES
    WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Thursday that immigration reform is probably off the table for this year, a prediction that threw cold water on the methodical efforts of Sen. John Cornyn to pass a bill this fall. "The overall guest worker-immigration legislation will come in this Congress (which ends in late 2006). It won't be this summer, I can't promise it will be in the fall," said Frist, R-Tenn. "More likely, it will be in the early part of next year, but within the next 12 months." Cornyn, R-Texas., said he was unaware of Frist's comments and...