Alas, the unity was shattered last month when Mr Graham, the Republican, refused to come to the bill's press launch, after hearing that the Senate would consider immigration first.
Consumers listening to music on their Xperia U can also enjoy improved sound quality with the stylish new Smart Headset for Android smartphones, which features SmartKey - a dedicated application launch key that consumers press once to launch a favourite app.
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The founders rang the opening bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and the Christian and secular press covered their launch.
"We've done many simulations, " he said during the pre-launch press conference.
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Speaking at a press conference to launch this weekend's Emirates Cup, which features hosts Arsenal, Juventus, Real Madrid and Hamburg, Wenger said reports that Adebayor was keen to leave the club were wide of the mark.
Speaking at a press conference to launch the latest Inflation Report, the governor of the Bank of England said it had lowered its growth forecasts following the weak growth data at the end of the year.
It's hard to imagine major corporations experimenting with products as they launch press conferences and ad campaigns designed to pat themselves on the back for adding a few fractions of an inch to a smartphone screen.
Yes, of course, Steve Jobs was extremely good at giving these sorts of presentations, of working the crowd and the press at a product launch.
Despite a lukewarm press reception and a launch line-up that consists of a slew of ports of games already out on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, gamers have gobbled up every pre-order option from retailers like Best Buy, GameStop and Walmart.
But at the press conference on May 13th to launch the latest edition, there was as much interest in the prospects for the report itself as in what it had to say about the prospects for inflation.
Such a network is a key component of any modern structure, and if the team pulls it off, they might want to consider taking on some consulting gigs -- as Samsung has proven time and again, the company can't manage to keep press conference attendees online during major launch events, despite months of planning and unsurpassed budgets.
They use fiat, willpower and a supportive press to push through a project from launch to completion.
Jobs once summoned the press to Cupertino to cover the surprise launch of a set of iPod speakers.
But Skype's CEO Tony Bates told press reporters and bloggers at the event launch in California that other features are on their way.
There was an Epic Fail of a Sony press event that included the first ever launch of a 4K OLED TV, featuring an impressive demonstration of the Blue Screen of Death.
Alyn and Deeside MP Mark Tami led a delegation of Broughton trade union leaders to meet Downing Street last year to press for a government loan to support the launch of the new A350.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had said in a press conference in October that the site would launch its new anonymous dropbox on November 28th, a year after its announcement of its Cablegate leak of 251, 000 State Department documents.
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But even more interestingly, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams also visited Seoul and held a press conference on Wednesday to talk about the recent launch.
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Launch a pre-pre-E3 press conference, of course.
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The initial system of launch is invite only to members of the press, and will be tested with user feedback over time to gauge how to expand.
The device, which received no formal introduction during its host device's launch event, first appeared in the "press kit" bag that attendees received on the way out the door.
There was Antennagate, which created so much hoo-hah around the iPhone 4 launch that the company actually held a special press event to address the issue, and then offered to send customers free bumpers or covers.
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Even RIM opted to forgo the CES press conference, choosing to hold its own event to launch its long-awaited BlackBerry 10 operating system, later this month, and joining in on a larger industry trend of breaking away from the industry's noisiest week.
Now at a press conference this morning, officials promised that the next shuttle launch will not go forward until it's declared safe.
At its E3 press conference Monday morning, Microsoft announced the official price and launch date of its expected Kinect system, a controller-less add-on to the Xbox 360 game console that players control using their hands and gestures.
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The Disney Infinity launch had more of a fan club feel than a press event.
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According to a press release from Stance, Wade is the first NBA player to launch his own sock collection.
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Sony made some waves Tuesday when it announced the price and official launch dates of its upcoming PlayStation Move system at its press conference during the E3 video game conference in Los Angeles.
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More important than the timing of the launch, Goldman Sachs forecaster Yuji Fujimori told The Associated Press, is the success of the new machine when it goes on sale, including pricing and game software lineup.
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At a press conference after his speech, Zuckerberg was asked when he expected to launch a payments program.
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