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...amnesty was followed by an explosion in illegal immigration. But not to offer some process by which illegal immigrants gain legitimacy is to keep them permanently underground. "To me, it goes to the core of your view and recognition of human dignity for everybody," says Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, another of the Judiciary Committee Republicans who voted for legalization. But to do it is to reward lawbreaking, says Texas Senator John Cornyn, who voted against the bill. "It will encourage further disrespect for our laws and will undercut our efforts to shore up homeland security...
Kennedy spent the next 10 months building support. In the end, two Senators proved crucial: Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California and Republican Sam Brownback of Kansas. Both faced immigrant-hostile constituents but also pressure from the agriculture industry to legalize a huge portion of its workforce. Three days before the Senate Judiciary Committee voted on a modified version of the Kennedy-McCain bill, Kennedy's and Feinstein's staffs worked out a path to citizenship for illegal agricultural workers, a deal that would pave the way for unlawful immigrants working other jobs. Where Bush will come down is unknown...
...business lobby's comeback was due in no small part to three Republican Senators: Ohio's Mike DeWine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Sam Brownback of Kansas. At the Judiciary Committee mark-up yesterday that passed the pro-business bill, those three voted consistently for the Democratic pro-immigrant amendments Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy was pushing. More important, Graham agreed to co-sponsor, and introduce in committee, the entire pro-immigrant (and pro-business) bill Kennedy and Senator John McCain had crafted over the last year. The business lobby was not shy about taking credit...
...week, the Republican Party was coping with an impasse over spending cuts and the fallout from an embarrassing loss in the Virginia Governor's race, and he was in South Dakota for a week of pheasant hunting. "I just haven't seen him around as much lately," said Sam Brownback, the conservative Republican Senator from Kansas...
...rationale for withdrawing to preserve executive privilege is reasonable, her decision to withdraw was undeniably the correct one. Much of the anti-Miers vitriol swirling around her nomination was spawned from a conservative fear that her views on critical social issues, such as abortion, were unclear. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., for one, refused to endorse her out of a fear that she would fail to retain a strictly conservative judicial philosophy. Miers’ unclear judicial philosophy is a product of her lack of judicial experience. If Miers had previously served in a lower court, then she would have...