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How Talk Radio Torpedoed Immigration Reform
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By U.S. News Staff

July 3, 2007 Comment

With the collapse of the immigration bill in the Senate, the pundits and commentators had a common theme: Nothing gets done in Washington.

With an unpopular and lame-duck president and a divided and highly partisan Congress, they have a point. But why is there no compromise and needed action on enormous issues such as immigration, Social Security, and, of course, the open-ended war in Iraq?

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John W. Mashek covered politics in Washington for four decades with U.S. News & World Report, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Boston Globe. His primary beats were Congress, the White House, and national politics. He covered every presidential election from 1960 to 1996. He was a panelist in three televised presidential debates in 1984, 1988, and 1992.