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...Sununu of New Hampshire and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, all of whom object to the limited checks on executive authority in the bill. Instead, the opponents won over other GOP colleagues, including presidential hopeful Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. The rhetoric got so hot Thursday that Republican Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, a White House ally on the issue, said on the floor of the Senate that a terrorist attack that occurred after the expiration could be on the heads of those who voted to support the filibuster...
...brief public policy event and then make a political appearance, meaning that the cost of the visit is shared between the government and the campaign. In conjunction with remarks on border security and immigration reform, Bush will speak at a $1,000-a-plate dinner for Sen. John Kyl of Arizona, at the Biltmore Resort and Spa in Phoenix. After an overnight stay in Phoenix, he will visit the U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters in El Paso, Tex., then jet to Denver for a $1,000-a-plate luncheon for two-term Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, whose tough district is closely watched...
...they want to return to the U.S., file an application. "There's growing national consensus that in a post-9/11 world, we simply have to know who's coming into our country and why they're here," says Senator John Cornyn, who is sponsoring the bill with Jon Kyl of Arizona...
...influential Judiciary Committee member and his staff organized internal whisper campaigns, say Republican sources, that led to newspaper articles damaging Miers. The strategy was so successful, G.O.P. staff members say, that the White House called Kyl to object. Undaunted, his staff spread word of the disastrous meetings Miers was holding with Senators until White House officials finally said they were canceling the rest of the sit-downs a week before Miers withdrew her nomination, say Hill sources...
...Kyl's coup de grace came last Wednesday after the Washington Post unearthed pro-choice language Miers used in speeches a decade ago. That morning, after Frist told Bush he didn't have the votes to get Miers out of committee--let alone confirmed--the President sent chief of staff Andy Card and other White House officials to the Hill to try to save the nomination. But Kyl and his team fought back, G.O.P. staff members say, and used the Post article to help keep Senators opposed to Miers and to bring at least one other Senator into the undecided...