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.
It is identical to the McCain-Kennedy bill the Senate passed this year, which Bush has vowed to veto.
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.
We appointed Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. (Applause.) We passed a service bill named for Ted Kennedy that's giving young people and not-so-young people new ways to give back to their community.
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.
What influence, if any, did he have on the energy task force, the Intel merger, or the president's continued opposition to the Kennedy-McCain bill of rights?
Among them is South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, who worked with Kennedy on an immigration bill last year.
In the South, in the Southwest where it's a big issue, even in the northeast, there are conservative businessmen who strongly support Ted Kennedy's immigration bill.
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.
The version of the bill favored by Democratic leaders is sponsored by Kennedy and Sens.
The left's embrace of Kennedy became much more firm when Bill Clinton turned out to be a disappointment.
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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