For example, Bush writes that he blames Reid, at least in part, for killing immigration reform. At the height of the controversial effort, Bush (at the urging of Kennedy) pushed Reid to keep the Senate in session over the weekend before the July Fourth recess. Bush’s pitch didn’t work.
“I thought it would be worthwhile to allow them a little extra time for the bill to pass,” Bush writes. “Apparently, Harry Reid did not. ... Senators went home and listened to angry constituents stirred up by the loud voices on radio and TV. By the time they came back to Washington, immigration reform was dead.”
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