But Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott criticized the approach and referred to the measure as "the Kennedy bill, " rather than the Hatch-Kennedy bill.
Like the emerging house bill, Kennedy's bill would require almost everyone to have health insurance and most larger businesses to help pay the cost.
Rep. BOEHNER: Each of these hearings will be looking at additional provisions in the Reed-Kennedy Bill that raised serious concerns.
The new McCain-Kennedy bill will put more emphasis on beefing up the border, punishing errant employers, enforcing the law and assimilating new immigrants.
Representative JOHN BOEHNER (Republican, Ohio): It's clear that Senate Democrats and Republicans alike are moving away from the Reed-Kennedy bill and toward the House position.
In her note to investors, Catherine Arnold of Credit Suisse speculates that Democrats in the house could favor "more draconian" measures than the Enzi-Kennedy bill.
Ms. CHRIS WOODS (National Campaign Manager for the New American Opportunity Campaign): What we're hoping is that anybody who's here as of a certain date and the date that was under the McCain-Kennedy Bill that was introduced last May, would've made anybody who was in this country as of May 12, 2005 eligible for earned passed the citizenship.
This kind of message also reinforces the successful progressive tradition of optimists like Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Bill Clinton.
John Kerry and his party, however, seem more in tune with Herbert Hoover on trade than with John Kennedy or Bill Clinton.
That will surely be the case with the Craig-Kennedy AgJobs bill, too.
Kennedy and Bill Clinton believed in a low capital gains tax.
The Kennedy-Kassebaum bill that became HIPAA was going to impose a national patient identifier .
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It is no surprise that Altria opposes this approach in favor of the Kennedy-Waxman bill.
The Republicans who control Congress will not buy Kennedy's bill, and Clinton's panel will not report for almost a year.
The first approach, known as the Kennedy-Waxman bill, will give the beleaguered Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco.
First of all, the Kennedy-Waxman bill, named after its sponsors Sen.
Among them is South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, who worked with Kennedy on an immigration bill last year.
McCain-Kennedy, the immigration bill that conservatives consider to be amnesty.
Ms Kennedy told Sefton Labour MP Bill Esterson about the move when she met him to discuss the shootings.
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Democratic strategist Hank Scheinkopf, who once worked for President Bill Clinton, also said he thought Kennedy should not be chosen.
Mr Kennedy said other measures in the bill - such as a charge of committing acts "preparatory to terrorism" - could be used for this.
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Clearly, Bill Clinton still acts like the early John Kennedy.
You've got Ted Kennedy working with Senator McCain on a bill that would allow illegal immigrants to apply for residency.
Lord David Pannick and Lady Helena Kennedy both thought the protections in the bill for churches and individuals who had conscientious objections to gay marriages were watertight.
Comedian Bill Cosby and U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy were among his contributors, and much of his money comes from outside the state.
Bill Clinton was a strong-dollar President, and John Kennedy proclaimed that the dollar should be as good as gold.
But Kennan resigned out of pique when he felt Kennedy had crossed him up by signing a trade bill that stigmatized Yugoslavia.
Edward Kennedy and former Clinton loyalists such as New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson began to back Obama, with their announcements driving potentially damaging headlines off the nation's front pages at critical moments in his campaign.
In separate anecdote, Kennedy one night announced his opposition to a relatively popular amendment to a bill.
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