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March 16, 2005
 
 

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"The House on Tuesday tied a contentious immigration bill to a measure to provide an additional $81.3 billion for military operations and foreign aid, potentially complicating negotiations with the Senate on both issues," the New York Times reports. "House members are seeking to force discussion of the issue of border security in the Senate, where Republicans are split over proposals for deporting political asylum seekers and barring states from issuing drivers' licenses to illegal immigrants. The House passed the immigration measure in February. Bob Stevenson, the chief spokesman for the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, said Republican leaders did not intend to let the immigration bill interfere with passage of the military spending measure. But he said there would be attempts to alter it."

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