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May 19, 2006
Byrd Slams Bush On Immigration Dough
Sen. Robert Byrd hit the President hard yesterday in response to the President's funding requests for border control. (AP)
Bush asked Congress for $1.9 billion Thursday to pay for 1,000 Border Patrol agents and the temporary deployment of up to 6,000 National Guard troops to states along the Mexican border.
His request was not warmly welcomed by some key senators.
Sen. Judd Gregg (news, bio, voting record), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, delayed a vote on Bush's promotion of U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman (news, bio, voting record) to White House budget director to show his displeasure. He said Bush's request calls for using money for proposed for border security equipment to pay for operational exercises.
Sen. Robert Byrd (news, bio, voting record), the Senate Appropriations Committee's top Democrat, complained that he had offered amendments providing for border security nine times since 2002, only to have the Bush administration reject them as extraneous spending or expanding the size of government.
"If we had spent that money beginning in 2002, we would not be calling on the National Guard today," Byrd said.
I wonder why this is such a big deal now, as opposed to a few months ago, of last year, or a couple of years ago? All of a sudden immigration becomes a huge deal.
Posted by Chip Spear at May 19, 2006 10:02 AM
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