Senate keeps temporary workers in legislation Immigration bill survives attempt to scrap temporary worker program.(Front)

From: The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) | Date: May 23, 2007 | Copyright information

WASHINGTON -- From staff and wire reports

WASHINGTON - The Senate turned back an early attack on a broad bipartisan immigration overhaul Tuesday, keeping alive a temporary worker provision that could bring in as many as 600,000 foreign laborers each year.

Senators voted 64-31 to reject a proposal offered by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and supported by some labor unions to strike the program, which is one of the measure's key elements.

The vote was the first big test for the improbable coalition that wrote the measure with White House officials and is now struggling to ...

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