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...projects: supplying cash and ground troops to help South Dakota's John Thune beat Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle in 2004. Thune, a presidential prospect, electrified the Broadmoor audience, which also heard from Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn of Texas...
...Republicans are enjoying the Democratic disarray. Majority leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, echoing the flag-waving rhetoric of Karl Rove and others, said the Levin-Reed amendment "effectively calls on the United States to cut and run from Iraq." The office of Texas Senator John Cornyn gleefully pointed out contradictions in the statements of those supporting the Reed-Levin plan. Dianne Feinstein, an amendment co-sponsor, said on Sunday, "I think it's time to set some timetables." Levin, at a press conference a day later, asserted, "Our amendment does not establish a timetable for redeployment...
...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...
With attention on the ruckus within the G.O.P. over immigration, it was easy to lose sight of the Democrat who has emerged as a playmaker on the issue. Kennedy's Senate rivals acknowledge that he outmaneuvered them. "He had the votes," concedes John Cornyn of Texas, a key opponent. Realizing the state of play, President George W. Bush reached out, pulling Kennedy aside last week after a meeting on education, the issue that inspired their first collaboration, in 2001. "He said, 'We want to try and work this out,'" says Kennedy...
...Arizona Republican Kyl last year co-sponsored with Senator John Cornyn of Texas a bill that sought a compromise between the harsh penatlities of the Sensenbrenner plan and the more lenient Senate proposals...