Senate rejects Bush immigration plan (AP) / Friday, November 21, 2008

Senate rejects Bush immigration plan (AP)

June 30, 2007

Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-MA, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa(L) talk about immigration legislation during a news conference on Capitol Hill, 27 June 2007 in Washington DC. The US Senate voted Thursday to kill off a landmark immigration bill which would have granted a path to citizenship to 12 million illegal immigrants, in a severe blow to President George W. Bush.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AP - Hours after a massive immigration bill collapsed in the Senate, lawmakers and lobbyists began seeking ways to pass bits and pieces of the measure important to their constituents.